The Chamberlain company, the makers of the LiftMaster garage door openers, has based its manufacturing in Mexico since 1990, almost two decades. The plant in Nogales, Mexico marked a shift towards more complete cost-effectiveness for the company, fusing five separate manufacturing efforts under the most sophisticated garage door opener facility ever built. The plant uses advanced technology in its electronics manufacturing, making it a world-class facility.
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The plant immediately invested in 'surface mount' technology, attaching tiny electrical components to circuit boards far more quickly and precisely than ever. The plant tests the life-span of the openers comprehensively before they are allowed to be shipped out of the factory, and the completed products themselves are loaded straight away into secure trucks to be sent to distribution centers.
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The Chamberlain company has an ongoing goal of creating new concept designs, constantly improving their products and forging into new technology. Any new idea starts with 'story board; conceptualizing and roughed-out design parameters. Then, prototypes are created and put through rigorous, supervised testing, eliminating failure-rates and maximizing desired performance and durability. Not only does the company test the product's performance as a whole, but each and every component of the device is tested individually, exploring each individual aspect of a product's functioning, seeking out and correcting possible design flaws and weaknesses. Garage door openers are tested by being run nonstop for three weeks, on 35-second cycles. That's twenty-five thousand cycles, or approximately fifteen years of normal use.
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The Chamberlain company is also highly involved in new product testing, pioneering new technologies in the field and experimenting with innovative production methods that decrease the company's carbon footprint and effect on the planet.