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BY BUD GUITRAU

In this edition of EDM Today, we are pleased
to recognize the team at Quality EDM, located
in Anaheim, CA, as our Top Shop honoree.

Quality EDM, Inc. was founded in 1993 in Yorba Linda,
CA by President Michael Gervais, who is a second-gen-
eration EDM’er with a long history of EDM experience.
Beginning as a tiny shop in Anaheim with only three
benchtop Sinkers, Quality EDM has established them-
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selves as one of the largest EDM job shops in Orange
County with full capabilities and experience in every-
thing EDM...Sinker, Wire and Fast Hole.
Despite its humble beginnings, Quality EDM, Inc. can boast of a broad list of 25 EDM machines in order to offer “one-stop-shopping” for
all EDM services. They specialize in...

EDM PRODUCTION ONLY
THEIR FIRST MOVE
Accepting only short and long-run EDM production jobs,
one of Quality EDM’s strengths lies in the diversity of
of six months’ free rent to move to Yorba Linda, largely
their markets and parts. Analogous to a well-balanced Feeling early growing pains, they accepted an incentive
a bedroom community with very few competing shops.
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IRA retirement program insuring long-term stability and
There, they started out in a 1,200 sq/ft building with
sustainability, our Top Shop enjoys steady earnings from
their benchtop Sinkers and their fi rst WEDM, a small
a similarly well-balanced portfolio of medical, dental,
Sodick A-280.
aerospace, satellite and microwave business for both
Business was good and they grew quickly, adding three
their military and commercial customer base.
new Sodick A-35 Sinkers and a Sodick A-500L WEDM for
increased capacity. Business was so good, they took over
After teasing you with this, we’ll begin with their eventful
history, while weaving in their parts and processes.
the adjoining building and doubled their fl oor space. On
this growth, Mike says, “Our focus then was mainly aero-
AN EARLY START
nies like Parker Hannifi n, Dowty Aerospace and Bendix.”
Mike’s career in EDM began practically before he knew it,
at age 13, working weekends and summers for his father, space hydraulics – spools, slides and sleeves for compa-
HYDRAULICS
Roland Gervais. Roland owned a small grinding shop, but
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he also had one of the fi rst EDM’s in Southern California
The components shown here are part of the hydraulic
which were tube-type AGIE tabletops. Mike learned EDM
servo systems and actuators that control an aircraft’s
fl aps, ailerons, elevons, rudder, steering and landing
from his dad and Gordon Gossard, the Shop Foreman,
gears. Similar designs are found in many other precision
and credits them both greatly for sharing their experienc-
fl uid metering systems.
es, of which Mike says, “I would not have the skills and
knowledge I have now if it were not for them.”
For these actuator
Also working for his dad at the time was Gordon’s
parts, very accurate,
daughter, Diana Gossard, meaning she has worked with
Mike in some form for 40 years! Together, with trusted
openings called
friend, Sammy Cordero, the three of them founded Quality
“metering slots” must
be Wire cut through
EDM in August of 1993. Today, Diana is the General geometric-shaped
Manager and Sammy is Head of Operations and this past
wire start holes that
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August also marked their 30th year in business together.
have been pre-drilled
“Congratulations!” from EDM Today magazine.
through both walls of
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