With 50 years of growth and heritage behind it , the move to new premises at Cerritos , East of Los Angeles , California , and just a few miles from where the company had been for so long ( at La Palma , California ) gave Performance Machine the opportunity to reconfigure production processes that had grown organically as the product range and sales had grown . Two years on , and the reshaping and harmonization of manufacturing and process flow has resulted in an optimization of technologies and a consolidation of handling stages that have massively improved efficiency , productivity , speed and throughput . One thing that hasn ' t changed though , excepting in improved layout , station designs and ever- improving equipment , is PM ' s dedication to R & D and quality control . From the start of the business , product reliability and durability were mission critical brand characteristics for founder Perry Sands . As the safety critical
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component brand he created heads into its sixth decade , Performance Machine ' s determination to remain the industry gold standard against which all other manufacturers are measured remains undimmed . While materials and technology have , of course , advanced with the times , the fundamentals of the procedures that Perry Sands established to ensure that PM became a byword for quality remain . Sands designed and fabricated a punishing set of test equipment to torture the wheels and brake system components he made before ever releasing products to the retail market . " While the equipment itself may be the subject of regular updating , as opportunities to evolve , replace and renew present themselves , those fundamentals are not open to compromise ," explains PM ' s Director of Sales and Marketing Ana Lizarraga . " Each wheel or brake component design starts with an idea conceptualized by the PM team of engineers .
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A computer model of the design is evaluated in the Solidworks computer design software for structural integrity using Finite Element Analysis . " If the results look good , the prototype is then machined in the production department and sent to the PM in-house test lab , where it is thoroughly tested to exceed stringent TÜV and JASO safety requirements ." PM is very proud of the fact that its in-house test lab is TÜV certified and approved . Every three years , representatives from TÜV in Germany visit the PM facility and review its test equipment , testing procedures , documentation and reporting practices , and every three years recertify that PM meets its strict requirements . " The Europeans and Japanese are very concerned about safety . Products sold in those areas must be certified to meet tough safety standards . In the USA , if you own a CNC-machine and can cut a circle , you can sell wheels to the public . " We here at PM do not believe in having their customers act as guinea pigs for their products . We never have and never will . Just as Perry Sands did , we insist that we physically test our products to be sure there won ’ t be issues out on the open road ." In the test lab , every wheel design must pass four physically abusive tests . Each piece of custom-made test equipment is designed to simulate a different variable that places a load on the wheel design . " The Radial Load Test subjects the wheel design
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