Marina, CA based Light & Motion announced that the Discovery Channel will air its episode on the manufacturing and assembly of the company’s flagship scuba light, the Sola Dive 1200 this Friday, October 24th2014. The show airs at 9pm, and is the episode is titled “Scuba Lights, Convertible Sandals, Racecar Simulators, and Fiberglass Doors”
The “How It’s Made” film crew visited Light & Motion’s vertically-integrated California factory earlier this year to learn about and document how the company builds its LED-based Sola Dive light and their Bluefin underwater camera housing. The episode on Light & Motion’s Bluefin Housing is scheduled to air later this year on December 12th at 9 p.m.
“How It’s Made” takes viewers behind the scenes in factories around the world to show viewers how the raw materials are transformed into finished products. The show airs in 130 countries and is broadcast in more than 30 different languages around the world.
Light & Motion was invited to participate in the show after “How It’s Made” saw a Seca bike light and learned that the powerful LED light was a product developed by the company in their California factory.
“Our teams are very proud of the products they build, and now we can show the world how we do flow manufacturing,” said Daniel Emerson, CEO of Light & Motion. “We are honored to be recognized by the Discovery Channel for our innovative, U.S.-based manufacturing.”
Light & Motion has been designing and building lighting systems in California for 25 years. Currently, the company manufactures 50 to 80 percent of its products in-house, and 100 percent of the products are assembled at the company’s new headquarters in Marina, CA.
Domestic manufacturing creates a smaller environmental footprint and provides a number of pragmatic advantages. The vertical integration reduces the product development time by more than 50 percent. Light & Motion can rapidly prototype design concepts within a few days on its own equipment, where it would take six weeks or more working with a factory overseas.
“Manufacturing in the USA is integral to our core company values and mission,” said Emerson. “Building the product ourselves, in an integrated environment where the engineering, customer service, sales, and manufacturing staff work in sight of each other, provides product integrity, a key principle for Light & Motion. We don’t believe we can effectively live this vision if we let someone else build our product.”
About Light & Motion
Light & Motion is a vertically integrated design & manufacturing company that makes personal lighting systems for individuals that value conscientious design and elegantly engineered solutions. They have been recognized for pioneering business practices and a smart carbon footprintt, and have won numerous environmental awards, including the 2012 “Cool California Award” for greenhouse gas reductions.
For additional information, please contact Heidi Hall at hhall@lightandmotion.com or 831.480-2125 or visit their website at http://www.lightandmotion.com