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HEALTH & SAFETY

At Gits, safety is paramount.  

Our comprehensive protocols cover critical areas within our organization: 

Lockout Tag Out: By effectively implementing this protocol during maintenance or repair work, we prevent accidental machinery startups, significantly reducing the risk of workplace accidents and enhancing workplace safety. 

System Startup Procedures: These procedures involve thorough preparation, comprehensive safety checks, and personnel training to ensure smooth execution and hazard mitigation. 

Material Handling: We follow detailed protocols for material handling to prevent injuries. These protocols cover safe transportation and storage of goods within our facilities, minimizing risks and promoting a secure work environment. 

Team Member Well-Being Initiatives: Our prime commitment is to foster a supportive and fulfilling work environment where employees can thrive both personally and professionally. We prioritize team members’ health and well-being through various initiatives, including: 

• Health and Wellness Programs 
• Work-Life Balance Support

By integrating sponsored team building and community events, we create a holistic approach to well-being, ensuring that our team thrives both inside and outside the workplace.

Proactive Safety Committees: Our safety committees actively identify and address potential risks, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Regular inspections, incident report analysis, and preventive measures ensure that safety always remains a top priority. 

Together, we’re fostering a robust safety culture that empowers every individual. 

QUALITY

At Gits, we know that quality doesn’t happen by accident, it results from a systemic and passionate approach to customer satisfaction and providing exceptional value. Anchored in integrity, a culture of teamwork, a relentless can-do attitude and resolute customer focus, we establish operational and procedural directives to deliver value and meet expectations.

With the success of our customers in mind, we connect our international business suppliers and procurement, research and development, product introduction, manufacturing, logistics and sales, into a global network that is controlled by a “plan-do-check-act” work style, to ensure that we consistently produce high levels of performance.

We are proud of our International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949 QMS Certification, which demonstrates that Gits has met extensive requirements to create a process of continuous improvement, with an emphasis on defect prevention and reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain. IATF 16949 certification also focuses on additional issues like problem solving, error proofing and warranty management systems. We leverage our IATF certification to demonstrate our commitment to establish a disciplined approach for producing and delivering quality products every time. This includes setting those same high expectations for our entire supply chain.

Gits Quality Policy

ENGINEERING

As an experienced development partner, we begin supporting our customers well before production begins. Drawing upon our air flow, thermal management and electro-mechanical systems expertise, we forge innovative solutions that consistently set new standards of quality and performance in demanding environments. Our industry knowledge and development capabilities mean our team quickly designs and validates the exact solutions our customers need, while maintaining the high quality necessary for series production.

To deliver industry-leading solutions, our engineering team follows these best practices:

• • Work in accordance with APQP automotive standards
  • Analysis lead design
    • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
    • Material analysis
  • High-precision CNC prototype machining
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Extensive in-house validation
    • Environmental temperature and humidity extremes
    • Vibration, resonance and shock
    • Hot and cold gas flow
    • Accelerated high temperature wear
    • Ingress protection
    • Thermal shock
    • EMC/ESD
  • Extensive use of DOE and Six Sigma methodologies
  • Design for manufacturability and assembly
  • Production line design and gaging

CERTIFICATIONS

• • VDA/AIAG for automotive development and auditing
  • Geometric Dimensioning And Tolerancing

SUSTAINABILITY

• Careful waste disposal
• Company-wide environmental awareness
• Controlled water usage
• Environmentally friendly technologies
• Green building modifications
• Local suppliers and efficient delivery practices
• Recycling programs
• Waste reduction programs

PRODUCTION

Our operations meet the highest requirements on safety, quality, delivery, cost and sustainability, and our teams demonstrate a strong quality and productivity culture and take pride in building our products. Our employees work creatively to maximize performance and eliminate waste in order to drive exceptional value for our customers.

As part of our approach to continuous improvement, we implement techniques like Kaizen, Poka-yoke and overall equipment effectiveness. Growth and continuous innovation also require investments in processes, technology and people. At Gits, our people do what it takes to get the job done. Our people make it work.

Our Locations

Product Innovation Center

4601 121st Street
Urbandale, IA 50323
United States

Manufacturing | Technical Support | Sales

Edisonstraat 2
7575 AT Oldenzaal
The Netherlands

Manufacturing

Building 14, No.36 East Dalian Road
Taicang Economic Development Zone
Jiangsu 215400
China

1917 Neptuno Colonya Satellite
Juarez Chihuahua 32540
Mexico

67, 1st Main Rd, Industrial Suburb 2nd Stage
Industrial Suburb
Yeswanthpur
Bengaluru Karnataka 560022
India