On Tour at Humminbird's Marine Electronics Factory

I love to get my geek on. So when I realized that Humminbird makes most of its marine-electronics products at a main campus in Eufaula, Alabama, U.S.A — near the Alabama/Georgia border — I jumped at the chance to take a tour.  Last week (Jan. 15), I flew into Atlanta and met up with three other electronics writers and Humminbird brand manager Jeff Kolodzinski. Kolodzinski drove us to the factory, a single-story building in an industrial area. General Manager Craig Packard met us inside, and after we picked up some safety glasses and donned special jackets that reduce static electricity, we entered an enormous warehouse filled with multiple manufacturing lines. It’s at this 50-acre site with its 84,000 square-foot facility that Humminbird makes, packages and ships everything (except its Piranha units, which are outsourced) — ...