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COMPANY REPORT Receiver and TV Manufacturer GOOSAT, China

GOOSAT’s ■ GOOSAT moved into this
new production facility in
Zhuhai, China in 2011. Several
million digital TV receivers
are made here every year.

New
Super-Modern
Production
Facility

• Producing to the highest technical
standards
• 200 R&D employees
• 3D development
• Manufacturing capacity of several million
receivers per year
• Expansion into TV production

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COMPANY REPORT Receiver and TV Manufacturer GOOSAT, China

The newest
manufacturing ë Zhuhai

plant allows very
high production
rates at low prices
One of the most modern receiver
and TV production lines was placed
into service by GOOSAT in January of
2011. The production line was start-
ed up in multiple steps through the
course of the year and by the end
of 2011 it was time: TELE-satellite
could visit GOOSAT’s super new and
■Mike Miao is super modern fabrication plant in
GOOSAT’s founder
and chief. He takes Zhuhai.
care of all strategic
decisions.
Zhuhai is the “little sister” to the
gigantic city of Shenzhen. The city
is located on the western edge of
the Pearl River, right next to Ma-
cao. While Shenzhen is the world’s

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■Marketing manager
Josie Yang in GOOSAT’s
showroom in front of a large
logo.

■This 250-seat auditorium is used by GOOSAT to organize meetings and other events
and includes everything from employee training, company presentations up to dealer
training classes.

be found 30km away in Hongqi Town to us: “In 2010 we produced 4.2 million
where you’ll find a brand new 300,000 digital TV receivers.” It was a little less
sq-meter building. The central section in 2011.
receiver manufacturing headquarters, contains GOOSAT’s administration as
competition is growing between Shen- well as the Research and Development The outlook is much better for 2012:
zhen and Zhuhai. engineers and programmers. The ac- “We’re expecting to boost production
tual production facility can be found in to 4.5 million pieces in the new factory
GOOSAT actually has its roots in the two adjacent sections of the build- in Zhuhai.” Above all, sales will signifi-
Shenzhen. TELE-satellite reported on ing. cantly rise considering that the qual-
this back in the 02-03/2011 issue. Sure ity of the products will increase thanks
enough, GOOSAT’s factory isn’t locat- Production is already in the millions in part to the new manufacturing ma-
ed in central Zhuhai, but rather it can reveals Marketing manager Josie Yang chines.


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“We’re also planning to play a start selling TVs domestically here in can be either a DVB-S or DVB-S2 mod-
stronger role in TV production.”, China and we expect to sell 200,000 el. “For Europe we’re making TVs with
comments Josie Yang. “We started TVs.” Of course, selling TVs in Europe built-in DVB-T tuners.” But when Josie
our first delivers to The Middle East.” is also part of the plan. Yang spoke about 3D TVs, the con-
The numbers are still somewhat versation got much more interesting:
small; in 2011 only about 10,000 TVs The TVs already manufactured “We’re hoping to be able to introduce
were shipped. But in 2012 plans call for The Middle Eastern market are a triple tuner 3D TV in 2012 with DVB-
for a ten-fold increase. “We’ll also Plug&Play versions; the built-in tuner S2, DVB-T and DVB-C tuners.”

1, 2: On GOOSAT’s roof: a small satellite antenna farm. In
the background can be seen housing for the production
employees.

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GOOSAT Company Details
Receiver and TV Manufacturer, China www.goosat.com Technically this is possible but Europe
Engineers in Research & Development | Total Number of Employees
▼ ▼ has strict technical requirements that
0.............................. 250 ................................ 500
Average Turnover (Previous, This, Next Year Estimates)
GOOSAT engineers still have to tackle:
▼
0................................ 75 ................. 150 Mio US$ “Power usage has to be reduced; our
Production Certiﬁcates
TVs are still above the values required
RoHS, FCC, UL, CE, DVB, ISO for Europe”, we found out.
Main Products
Receiver for HDTV and SDTV in DVB-S/S2, DVB-T, DVB-C, ISDB-
T, HD+, CI+ and HbbTV, Multimedia Receiver, IPTV Boxes, Media
Player, TV Monitors with built-in receivers The huge numbers that GOOSAT can
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1103/eng/globalsat.pdf
manufacture can also be found in other
www.TELE-satellite.com/TELE-satellite-1203/eng/goosat.pdf

providers of TVs and digital receivers.
Up until now GOOSAT has been under-
stood to be an OEM manufacturer; they
produce receivers that dealers sell un-
der their own brand name. If GOOSAT
were to find a suitable brand name and
acquire it, then this situation would
change.

“We are ISO certified”, explains Josie
Yang, “That has helped us to further
optimize our production process; the
knowledge contained in the ISO stan-
dard is actually quite useful for a per-
fect production line.”

That’s how the company, founded by
Mick Maio in 2004 (“our first office was
14 Sq-meters in size“), has managed
in just a few years to become one of
the top digital TV manufacturers and
thanks to the most modern production
facilities have formed and excellent
foundation to actively take part in the
development of the international digital
TV market.

GOOSAT has
achieved the
ISO9001 cetificate
in 2008 and the
ISO14001 in 2011


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Research &
Development
Department
1. The designers work here. They are
responsible for the physical appearance
of GOOSAT’s products. The 20 employees
construct the front panels, the packaging,
the housing and the physical shape of the
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circuit boards.
2. Ian is in charge of the Hardware Team.
He is seen here holding one of the newest
GOOSAT HDTV receiver models in his
hands.
3. The Hardware Team. 35 engineers are
constantly at work further developing
GOOSAT’s receiver product line.
4. Denny Wu (right) runs the Software
Team. CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Bean
Zou (left) watches over the entire technical
development process at GOOSAT.
5. GOOSAT’s Software Team is also made up
of 35 engineers.

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6. What is this Software Team employee
doing? She has an exciting job; she is
developing 3D technology for GOOSAT
products. Michelle is Project Manager in the
R&D Team and is testing the function of a
brand new GOOSAT 3D model. We can’t wait
for this receiver to become available!
7. In the software testing lab. Hui Li (center)
runs the team that checks the receiver
software functions.
8. The hardware testing room. New receivers
models are checked here against their
technical specifications. The 12 engineers
have access to the most modern test
equipment.
9. An employee is checking the function of
a receiver using this super test instrument
from Rohde&Schwarz. The instrument
generates the various digital TV standards
from around the world so that the receivers
can be checked to see if they work with these
6 different standards.

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Circuit Board
Production
10. Frank Ma is arguably the most important man
in production; he’s in charge of the section with
the SMT machines. “Roughly four million USD was
invested here”, namely in a total of eight of the
newest SMT systems. “Each SMT line is operated
around the clock in two shifts from 8AM to 8PM. We
can manufacture 1500 HD receiver circuit boards or
3000 SD receiver circuit boards on each machine.
On top of that we produce lead-free!” At the moment
production puts out about 300,000 pieces every
month; in 2012 it will increase to 500,000 pieces.
The machines are located in a clean room and can
only be accessed through a special air lock. This
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11. An employee is examining a circuit board for
obvious defects before she sends it to an oven.
12. This AOI (Automatic Optical Inspector) checks
the circuit boards for the smallest of defects fully
automatically. Each GOOSAT SMT machine leads to
the AOI at the end of the oven in which the surface
Receiver
Assembly
mounted components are soldered onto the circuit
board. Here we see two AOIs at the end of the oven
and then…
13. ...here we see one of GOOSAT’s all new double 14. Factory Manager Ren
ovens: it is fed by two SMT machines. At a T junction watches over a production
(center) the two conveyor belts from the two SMT employee. He explains: “140
machines meet; the two circuit board belts run employees assemble here
parallel into the oven. The best part: “If one of the each shift on five assembly
SMT machines is loading an HD circuit board and lines.”
the other is loading an SD circuit board, then the two
conveyor belts run at different speeds through the 15. Video function in-process
oven”, explains SMT Manager Frank Ma. “One HD inspection.
circuit board carries from 400 to 600 components 16. Samples from the circuit
while an SD circuit board only carries from 200 to 500 board production line pass
components.” The soldering process runs at 274°C through quality control
so the HD circuit board that has more components before assembly and are
must run at a slower speed through the oven. The functionally checked.
monitor on the oven displays the two conveyor belts 17. The tuner is placed on the
(middle of the monitor) and the circuit boards on the circuit board here.
13 belts (black dots). 16


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Receiver Assembly
18. Each and every circuit board is functionally checked before final
assembly.
19. Production samples are tested. Six work stations are available for the
eight quality inspectors. Using modern test equipment these inspectors
check the functions of production samples. The ISO standard dictates exactly
how many samples must be tested based on manufacturing conditions.
20. Final assembly takes place here: the completed circuit boards along with
the power supply are installed in the housing. Eight of these assembly lines
are operated by GOOSAT in this section; 300 employees work here per shift.
21. A completed receiver. Before it is packaged or sent as a production
sample to quality control, it is given a quick check here of its critical
functions.
22. GOOSAT also manufactures TVs. An employee is seen here testing the
functions of a 32” LCD model.
23. A special feature with GOOSAT TVs: the Plug&Play receiver slot on
the side of the TV. Either a DVB-S or a DVB-S2 tuner can be inserted here
depending on what the customer wants. Models with DVB-T are also available
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Sales Team
24. Alvin is in charge of the Sales Team. In the past you 25. If you want to purchase GOOSAT products as a dealer or distributor,
could find him at almost any trade show. Today, though, you’ll end up with the Sales Team. 35 employees handle orders that come
he works more out of his office. He is constantly in in from around the world. Currently, the majority of GOOSAT’s exports
contact with international customers. The Calligraphy land with customers in The Middle East as well as Europe although the
on the wall means “If you work hard, you’ll get new markets emerging in South America (ISDB-T) and Africa (DVB-T2) have
rewarded”. recently come into the focus of GOOSAT’s Sales Managers.


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