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Organization Development

By the end of 2011, GSMW was growing rapidly. In order to stabilize operations company leadership recognized the need to professionalize its management team and evolve its organizational structure to provide the knowledge, support and control needed to continue that growth. Based on a more in-depth understanding of the company’s business model, the organization was completely redesigned based on a team matrix concept, minimizing pitfalls of the traditional steep hierarchy favored by most manufacturing concerns. The executive team was reconstructed and augmented to provide a new level of strategic expertise, bring clarity to the company’s mission, and realign the organization and its processes to drive knowledge and information throughout the company and provide strategic consistency.

As part of their own development, executives engaged in extensive development of their department managers, added to and refined core capabilities to decrease dependence on outside contractors for essential functions.

Learning as a Way of Life

After years of commiserating with other manufacturers about the “skills gap” and the shortage of educated, motivated production employees, GSM’s leadership made the decision to build the company’s engineering and production teams by providing formal educational and training support to existing employees interested in growing their careers in manufacturing. An internship program was initiated for college students interested in manufacturing technology and engineering.

Today, in addition to its strong administrative core, GSM’s innovative organizational structure includes a professional engineering team, a dedicated technology performance team, expert continuous improvement leadership, a credentialed quality assurance team, outstanding professional safety leadership, and a dedicated cultural development team focused on the recruitment and individual development of truly outstanding team members. Enhanced training and education programs for machine operators, technicians, management and supervisory employees is the cornerstone of our success, ensuring our customers get everything they need from us to protect their brands.

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National Manufacturing Day 2019

General Stamping & Metalworks (GSM) welcomed nearly 100 students to our facility on October 4, 2019 for National Manufacturing Day. Students were welcomed by the … Read More

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The Tube & Pipe Journal Spotlights GSM Bending Capabilities

October 2019
General Stamping & Metalworks invests in new tube bending capabilities to proactively gain capacity for new customer demand and increasingly complex components.
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General Stamping & Metalworks Ranks High on Fab 40 List

General Stamping & Metalworks is proud to rank 12th on The Fabricator’s annual FAB 40 list.  This annual ranking is based upon 2018 revenues, 2019 projected … Read More

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GSM Partners with City of South Bend’s On Demand Program

South Bend’s On Demand program supports local employers in helping build skill sets of their employees. Through GSM’s partnership with the City of South … Read More

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AWS Certification earned by 30 GSM Welding Team Members

In the fall of 2018, GSM partnered with one of Northern Indiana’s local community colleges to provide high quality weld training. That training led to … Read More

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Fabricator Article Spotlights General Stamping & Metalworks

December – 2018

The Fabricator recently highlighted the strategic partnership between Trumpf and GSM in their article, “A Deep Dive into Laser Cutting”.  The article focuses … Read More

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National Manufacturing Day At GSM

General Stamping & Metalworks (GSM) hosted nearly 100 students at our facility on October 5, 2018 for National Manufacturing Day. Students … Read More

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Manufacturing Day 2018

 

General Stamping & Metalworks to host Manufacturing Day events

SOUTH BEND, IN – In celebration of Manufacturing Day, General Stamping & Metalworks will open its doors … Read More

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GSM South Bend Facility Receives 2018 FMA/CNA Safety Award

GENERAL STAMPING & METALWORKS OF SOUTH BEND, IN RECEIVES SAFETY AWARD OF MERIT FROM FABRICATORS & MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

ELGIN, Ill., April 23, 2018, South Bend, Ind., May … Read More

GSM Tomah Facility Receives 2018 FMA/CNA Safety Award

GENERAL STAMPING & METALWORKS OF TOMAH, WI RECEIVES SAFETY AWARD OF HONOR FROM FABRICATORS & MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
ELGIN, Ill., April 23, 2018, Tomah, Wis., May 1, 2018 … Read More

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SB Regional Chamber Honors General Stamping & Metalworks with Economic Impact Award

This February, 2017, at The South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual Salute to Business luncheon, General Stamping & Metalworks was presented with The 2017 Economic … Read More

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Succeeding in Change; General Sheet Metal Works Continues to Adapt to Challenges

Excerpted from the South Bend Tribune 7/06/2012.

SOUTH BEND – Now in its third generation of leadership by the Axelberg family who created it, General Sheet … Read More

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A New Business Model, a New Structure – a New Business

Excerpted from the Fabricator 3/26/2014.
Indiana fabricator looks inward to grow
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor
John Axelberg grew tired of the griping. Year after year the president and … Read More

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New Building Concepts

Original content posted 4/18/2014: From the beginning in 1922, our people have always known that GSMW’s most valuable asset is our customer relationships. As … Read More

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Rajant and Acubis Technologies announce successful FE1 Peregrine and Hawk deployments for Stanwell's Meandu Mine

100 BreadCrumbs deployed for CCTV, Access Control, Fleet Management and Autonomous Haulage Malvern, PA – May 17, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Acubis Technologies, a Kinetic Mesh Premier Partner (KMPP) in Australia, have delivered the first FE1 series BreadCrumbs® - Rajant Peregrine and Hawk - to a government-owned utilities provider in southwest Queensland. The customer, Stanwell, was battling the ever-evolving data and application requirements of its operational technology (OT)... Source: RealWire [...]

Wyld launches sensor-to-satellite technology for global IoT connectivity
Wyld launches sensor-to-satellite technology for global IoT connectivity

Partnership with Eutelsat provides access to LEO satellite network 22 March 2022: Wyld Networks has announced the availability of its new range of low-power, sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN® terminals and modules for IoT applications across areas where there is little or no alternative connectivity. The Wyld Connect hybrid devices can transfer data directly to terrestrial networks or through a network of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites through a partnership with Eutelsat. With 100 percent global coverage, the... Source: RealWire [...]

A new leadership team for HomeGrid Forum as it announces five Task Forces to drive G.hn innovation and deployments
A new leadership team for HomeGrid Forum as it announces five Task Forces to drive G.hn innovation and deployments

New Chairs have been appointed to lead the Home Networking, GiGAWire, LiFi, Smart Grid and Industrial IoT Task Forces Oregon, 6 December 2021: HomeGrid Forum has announced today a new organizational structure that includes five Task Forces designed to support specific use cases and accelerate the deployments of network topologies. The Task Forces are customized for Home Networking, GiGAWire/Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU)/Single Family Unit (SFU), LiFi, Smart Grid and Industrial IoT scenarios. Chairs appointed from... Source: RealWire [...]

Global industry accelerating IoT adoption in response to Covid-19, new Inmarsat research reveals
Global industry accelerating IoT adoption in response to Covid-19, new Inmarsat research reveals

New report out today - Industrial IoT in the Time of Covid-19 – finds rapid increase and high level of maturity in levels of industrial IoT in 2021 across global supply chains in agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport and logistics 22 September 2021: New research by Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications, reveals a rapid increase in the maturity level of organisations adopting the industrial Internet of Things... Source: RealWire [...]

Bamboo Systems Models How to Reduce Data Center Carbon Footprint with Arm Servers
Bamboo Systems Models How to Reduce Data Center Carbon Footprint with Arm Servers

Bamboo’s new whitepaper crunches the numbers on x86 powered data centers vs those utilizing Arm servers CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND AND SAN JOSE, CA – July 13, 2021 – Bamboo Systems, a provider of revolutionary Arm-based, enterprise-classed servers architected to meet the needs of today’s software design and data center demands, today released a whitepaper “Reducing Your Data Center Carbon Footprint with Bamboo Arm Servers” which analyzes the energy used by different types of data centers. Bamboo... Source: RealWire [...]

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Increased Job Security as Green Auto Tech Receives £43.7M Funding
Increased Job Security as Green Auto Tech Receives £43.7M Funding

Sustainable automotive technology is to receive a £43.7million boost in joint funding from industry and government, which is expected to secure hundreds of jobs. The development of auto tech such as electric motorbikes and off-road vehicles, designed for emerging markets, could also see a saving of around 27.6 million tonnes of carbon emissions (CO2), the equivalent of removing the lifetime emissions of 1.1 million cars from the road. The projects, which could secure 550 new... Source: RealWire [...]

WCA CEO announces Keynote and speakers’ lineup for Big Data virtual event (Episode 2) on 27 July 2022, 2-5 pm BST(UK)
WCA CEO announces Keynote and speakers’ lineup for Big Data virtual event (Episode 2) on 27 July 2022, 2-5 pm BST(UK)

Register for free here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Em6an8plShucW7JLREdThw LONDON, United Kingdom – World Coffee Alliance (WCA), a leading network alliance of coffee industry professionals and stakeholders, producing critical insights including market research, due diligence reports and technical advice to the actors in the global coffee value chain, will hold Episode Two of the WCA TECHNOCOFFEE INNOVATION SERIES: DEMYSTIFYING BIG DATA IN COFFEE virtual event on Wednesday 27 July 2022 from 2:00-5:00 pm BST (UK time)/9:00 am-12:00 EDT. Joseph... Source: RealWire [...]

New research: Fashion shoppers' post-purchase selfies are key to cutting the rising volume of online returns
New research: Fashion shoppers' post-purchase selfies are key to cutting the rising volume of online returns

61% of US and UK consumers say seeing visual user-generated content (UGC) from other customers can reduce the growing number of fashion ecommerce returns which is hitting retailers’ profitability and sustainability goals. And around half of consumers now accept that returning online fashion purchases is bad for the environment NEW YORK and LONDON (July 14, 2022) - 61%[1] of consumers questioned in a new poll think fashion retailers can cut rapidly rising ecommerce product return... Source: RealWire [...]

Sun Strategy partners with Amdaris to provide sustainable branding solutions at scale

Digital transformation expert will help Sun Strategy scale sustainable solutions to meet increased customer demand since the pandemic Bristol, UK; 13 July 2022: Software development specialist Amdaris has partnered with sustainable branding experts Sun Strategy to transform the value of businesses through environmentally-conscious packaging. As digital partner, Amdaris will help accelerate the delivery of Sun Strategy’s sustainable and efficiency-driven technology solutions. Sun Strategy is a packaging consultancy that works with brands to deliver innovative, sustainable,... Source: RealWire [...]

AWS technology leader joins Sorted to scale SaaS business and support retailers globally

New Chief Technology Officer brings a wealth of senior technical leadership experience from Amazon Web Services and The Hut Group Company sees 219% growth in shipments since 2019, demonstrating demand for exceptional SaaS driven delivery experiences London, 11 July, 2022: Sorted, the Delivery Experience Platform, has just announced the appointment of technology innovator Peter Ennis as its new Chief Technology Officer to scale its cloud platform globally. His focus on SaaS innovation will enable Sorted... Source: RealWire [...]

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