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Directory of Lost Companies
Identified in this new Appendix are more than 200 companies whose name, ownership, or product line has changed significantly over the period from 1990 to 2005. Find the company you're looking for here.
09/28/2005
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By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief, with S. Edvi
BETWEEN 1990 and 2005, the instrumentation, systems and automation industries were the subject of significant, not to say massive, change. Not only was this change of a technical nature, with significant advances in many product areas, but also this period has been one of consolidation among supplier companies who furnish instruments and control systems. It appears that this consolidation will continue for the foreseeable future.
Identified in this Appendix are more than 200 companies whose name, ownership, or product line changed significantly over the period from 1990 to 2005. This list is not complete, and the authors believe that there are perhaps as many as 50 more companies, most outside North America, whose names have also changed in the same fashion.
This turmoil among suppliers has had a significant effect on the ability of Instrument Engineers to find familiar products, and locate companies for service of existing installed equipment. For example, the Fischer & Porter Company, a well-known name in 1990, had ceased to exist as a marque in 2002. The company, itself, was purchased by Elsag BV, and merged with Bailey Controls to form Bailey-Fischer-Porter. Later, Elsag sold the combined companies to ABB, who elected to drop both trade names in favor of ABB Process Instrumentation. So, an Instrument Engineer whose company installed Fischer & Porter instrumentation or control systems in the early 1990s may now find it impossible to easily find information, manuals, and source spare parts and service for Fischer & Porter systems. Fischer & Porter, as you will see in the table below, is far from the only example of this problem. The Authors therefore provide this information as a public service to the profession.
Published in the Instrument Engineers’ Handbook, Fourth Edition, and re-printed with permission. The IEH4 is available from www.isa.org and www.amazon.com. Please send additions or corrections to this list to wboyes@putman.net.
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Directory of Lost Companies
|
Prior Name |
Intermediate, if any |
2005 |
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ACCO Bristol |
Bristol Babcock Inc. |
Bristol Babcock div. of FKI Energy and Technology Group |
|
Advanced Pollution Instrumentation Inc. |
Teledyne Instruments - API | |
|
AEG Automation Systems |
Cegelec | |
|
AEG Schneider Automation |
Groupe Schneider/Schneider Electric |
Schneider Automation |
|
AGEMA Infrared Systems |
FLIR Systems Inc. | |
|
Altek Calibrators |
Transmation | |
|
American Sigma |
American Sigma div. of Danaher | |
|
Ametek McCrometer |
Ketema-McCrometer |
McCrometer div. of Danaher |
|
Amscor |
Fluid Data; ThermoONIX |
ThermoElectron Measurement and Control |
|
Anatel |
Anatel Div. of Danaher |
Pacific Scientific Instruments div. of Danaher |
|
Anchor Darling |
Flowserve Corp | |
|
Applied Automation Inc |
Elsag-Bailey |
ABB Process Automation (much of AAI was sold to Siemens) |
|
Applied Automation/Hartmann and Braun (systems division) |
Johnson Yokogawa |
Yokogawa Corp. |
|
ARCOM Control Systems |
Spectris PLC | |
|
Arthur Technology |
Respirometry Plus | |
|
ASAP Software |
Xycom Automation/Pro-face America div of Digital-Japan |
Schneider Electric |
|
Ashcroft-Heise |
Ashcroft-Heise div of Dresser Industries Instruments | |
|
Astro |
Hach Co. |
Hach div. of Danaher |
|
Aquamatic Inc. |
Osmonics, Inc. |
GE Infrastructure Sensing |
|
Automax |
Flowserve Corp | |
|
Azonix |
Crane Co. | |
|
BTG |
BTG Spectris |
Spectris PLC BTG div. |
|
BTG Valve |
CCI Valve Technology AB | |
|
B/W Controls |
Ametek Patriot Sensors |
Ametek Automation & Process Technology |
|
Baan Software |
Invensys |
SSA Global Technologies |
|
Badger Meter Ultrasonic div. |
Badger Eastech Inc. | |
|
Bailey Controls |
Elsag-Bailey |
ABB Process Automation |
|
Barber-Coleman |
Eurotherm |
Invensys |
|
Bebco |
Pepperl+Fuchs | |
|
Beta Products |
Hathaway-Betaand Beta Calibrators div. Hathaway Process Instrumentation Corp. |
Martell Electronics |
|
Bettis Actuators & Controls |
Emerson Process Management | |
|
Bindicator |
Aaliant |
Venture Meas. Div. of Danaher |
|
Biosynergy Inc |
Biosynergy Inc div of America Clinical Laboratory | |
|
Brooks Instruments |
Rosemount-Brooks |
Emerson Process Management (no longer a div. only a trademark) |
|
Bruel & Kjaer |
B&K div. of Fairey Group |
B&K div of Spectris PLC |
|
Edmond Buhler GMBH |
Buhler Montec |
Buhler Montec div. of Danaher |
|
CSI |
Emerson CSI |
Emerson Process Management |
|
Cannonbear Technologies |
TN Technologies; ThermoMeasureTech |
ThermoElectron Measurement and Control |
|
Celtek |
Bindicator Celtek, Aaliant |
Venture Meas. Div. of Danaher |
|
Chessell |
Eurotherm |
Invensys |
|
Chino Works Ltd. |
Chino Corporation | |
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Combustion Engineering |
ABB Process Automation | |
|
Coulter Corporation |
Beckman Coulter Inc. | |
|
DMC Corporation |
Part of AspenTech | |
|
Danfoss Flow Control |
Siemens Danfoss |
Siemens |
|
Daniel Industries |
Rosemount |
Emerson Process Management, Daniel div. |
|
Detector Electronics Corp |
Det-Tronics | |
|
DeZurik Valve Corp. |
DeZurik Div. of SPX |
SPX Process Equipment |
|
Dietrich Standard (Annubar) |
Rosemount |
Emerson Process Management, Dietrich div. |
|
Direct Measurement Corp. |
DMC |
FMC Energy Systems Group |
|
Drexelbrook Eng. Co. |
Ametek Drexelbrook | |
|
Dolch Computer Co. |
Dolch Kontron |
Kontron Inc. |
|
Druck Inc. |
GE Druck |
GE Infrastructure Sensing |
|
DuPont Process Instruments |
Ametek Process Instruments Div. | |
|
Eastech Controls |
Neptune Eastech |
Badger Eastech Inc. |
|
Eckhardt |
Siebe |
Invensys |
|
Edward Valve |
Invensys Flow Control |
Flowserve Corp |
|
Elsag-Bailey |
ABB Process Automation | |
|
Elcon Inc. |
Pepperl+Fuchs | |
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Eurcontrol |
BTG |
Spectris div. of Fairey |
|
Ever Ready Thermometer Company |
Apogent Technologies Co. | |
|
Fairey Group PLC |
Purchased Spectris |
Spectris PLC |
|
Fenwal |
Kidde-Fenwal | |
|
Fischer and Porter Co. |
Elsag-Bailey |
ABB Process Automation |
|
Fischer and Porter Co. (chlorination div. only) |
Capital Controls Co. div of Severn Trent | |
|
Fisher Controls Inc. |
Fisher-Rosemount Inc. |
Emerson Process Management |
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