What Defines Manufacturing Excellence? Insights From The G&H Cleanroom

Shipping fully-compliant products requires close management and control of the complete manufacturing value chain, from operator training to independent quality auditing and in-process testing, cutting-edge equipment, meticulous process design and management – and, of course, a specialist, compliant environment in which the manufacture can take place.

At G&H, our recently commissioned state-of-the-art cleanroom in Torquay, UK, delivers on all fronts. It is one of very few “ultra-clean” fiber-optic manufacturing places in the world, offering fused components, photonic packaging and module manufacture in a clean-room environment all under the same roof. It enables the production of our own fiber optic components and devices, and underpins integration with and assembly into devices and subsystems that our customers have entrusted to us. Aside from unique manufacturing control, contamination management and product assurance, this also allows for fiber-optic assemblies to be spliced together with matched and shorter fiber lengths, hence achieving performance otherwise not possible through the splicing of commercially available components.