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| Company type | Subsidiary ofFortive |
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| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | Fairport, New York, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Andrew McCauley (President) |
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| Parent | Fortive |
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| Website | www |
Qualitrol is acondition monitoring technology company headquartered inFairport, New York. Qualitrol manufacturers and distributes partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products for the electrical generation, transmission and distribution industries.[1]
The company also offers customer training and field services, such as on-site start-up and testing, customized maintenance, product upgrades, troubleshooting, and repair services. It serves customers in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.
Qualitrol is a subsidiary of theFortive industrial conglomerate.
George Ford, the founder of Qualitrol, was born in 1907 inBarrie, Ontario, Canada, the son of Thomas Henry Ford and Rachel Mary Jones. His family moved toRochester, New York when he was a child, where he completed his secondary education and then graduated as an engineer from theUniversity of Rochester.[2]
Ford became aware of a major deficiency in the manufacture of heavy electronic transformers and generators of diesel engines. He identified the risks of unexpected accidents while using gas and flame without protective devices. At the age of 38, Ford left his position as Vice President of Engineering at the Rochester Manufacturing Company to establish a new company[2] using seed money from his brother-in-law, Mort Watters, and from his mother-in-law, Rose Gavin.[3]
In 1945 Ford founded Qualitrol Corporation inFairport, New York, and began to provide the electric utility industry with protective devices and monitoring systems. Ford opened a branch of Qualitrol inWaynesboro, Tennessee to manufacture valves. Later, Mr. Ford bought Microcontrol inSt. Louis, Missouri, a manufacturer of thermostats, and theDynapar Corporation[4] inGurney, Illinois a manufacturer of digital controls.
In the late 1960s, Ford sold all of his business interests to devote more time to his love of sports.
Within two years of Danaher Corporation's founding in 1984, it acquired twelve companies as part of a strategy to entermanufacturing. In 1986,Danaher Corporation acquired Qualitrol, establishing QualitrolLLC.[5] Qualitrol became part of Danaher'sinstrumentation unit, which includedGilbarco Veeder-Root's underground fuel storage sensors, Dynapar's motion sensors,[6] and Qualitrol'spressure andtemperature measurement instruments used on the electrical transformer industry.[7] Danaher spun off several subsidiaries, including Qualitrol, in 2016 to create Fortive.[8]
Qualitrol became part ofFortive in July, 2016.
At the end of 2007, Qualitrol started to collaborate withQuebec City-based Neoptix Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic temperature sensors.[9] Initially, Qualitrol and Neoptix worked together on the integration of data collected simultaneously from traditional methods of temperature measurement and from optical direct hot-spot sensors.[10] Subsequently, Neoptix became a sole subsidiary of Qualitrol.[11]
In 2010, Qualitrol acquiredMississauga, Ontario-based Iris Power, a supplier of on-linepartial discharge testing of stator winding insulation in large motors and generators, from subsidiaries ofKoch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, aWichita-based multinational. Qualitrol thereby acquired a fleet of portable and continuous instruments and monitoring systems that are integrated into a power plant'sDistributed Control System (DCS) or a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.[12]
At the end of 2011, Qualitrol began the expansion of its current production facility inFairport, New York to 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2).[13]
Qualitrol also has manufacturing facilities inBelfast, andMississauga. The Belfast facility focuses on Qualitrol instruments and the Glasgow facility is now defunct and dissolved, merged with Belfast. The Quebec City unit operates as Neoptix[14] and the Mississauga unit operates under Iris Power.[15][16] Though each location specializes, projects are worked on by teams in multiple locations.
Qualitrol adheres to the standards of international organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA)[17] and the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE).[18]
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