Qualitrol

Qualitrol is a condition monitoring technology company headquartered in Fairport, New York. Qualitrol manufacturers and distributes partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products for the electrical generation, transmission and distribution industries.[1]

Qualitrol LLC
TypeSubsidiary of Fortive
Industry
Founded1945
HeadquartersFairport, New York, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Andrew McCauley
(President)
Products
ParentFortive
Subsidiaries
  • Iris Power
  • Neoptix
  • Serveron
Websitewww.qualitrolcorp.com

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 the Fortive industrial conglomerate.

History

George Ford

George Ford, the founder of Qualitrol, was born in 1907 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, the son of Thomas Henry Ford and Rachel Mary Jones. His family moved to Rochester, New York when he was a child, where he completed his secondary education and then graduated as an engineer from the University 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]

Founding and expansion

In 1945 Ford founded Qualitrol Corporation in Fairport, New York, and began to provide the electric utility industry with protective devices and monitoring systems. Ford opened a branch of Qualitrol in Waynesboro, Tennessee to manufacture valves. Later, Mr. Ford bought Microcontrol in St. Louis, Missouri, a manufacturer of thermostats, and the Dynapar Corporation [4] in Gurney, 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.

Acquisition by Danaher

Within two years of Danaher Corporation's founding in 1984, it acquired twelve companies as part of a strategy to enter manufacturing. In 1986, Danaher Corporation acquired Qualitrol, establishing Qualitrol LLC.[5] Qualitrol became part of Danaher's instrumentation unit, which included Gilbarco Veeder-Root's underground fuel storage sensors, Dynapar's motion sensors,[6] and Qualitrol's pressure and temperature measurement instruments used on the electrical transformer industry.[7] Danaher spun off several subsidiaries, including Qualitrol, in 2016 to create Fortive.[8]

Acquisition by Fortive

Qualitrol became part of Fortive in July, 2016.

Corporate affairs

At the end of 2007, Qualitrol started to collaborate with Quebec 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 acquired Mississauga, Ontario-based Iris Power, a supplier of on-line partial discharge testing of stator winding insulation in large motors and generators, from subsidiaries of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a Wichita-based multinational. Qualitrol thereby acquired a fleet of portable and continuous instruments and monitoring systems that are integrated into a power plant's Distributed Control System (DCS) or a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.[12]

Qualitrol HQ Expansion 2012 Phase 1

At the end of 2011, Qualitrol began the expansion of its current production facility in Fairport, New York to 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2).[13]

Subsidiaries
  • Qualitrol
    • Iris Power LP
    • Neoptix Fiber Optics LP
    • BPL Global (Serveron)

Executive management
  • President: Andrew McCauley
  • Vice President of Marketing and Business Development:
  • Vice President of Expert Services: Joseph Mbuyi
  • Vice President Finance: Shane Murphy
  • Vice President Human Resources: Tom Hodge
  • Vice President of R&D : Anis Zribi

Divisions

Products

Asset protection

Transmission and distribution

Condition monitoring

Global operations

Qualitrol also has manufacturing facilities in Belfast, and Mississauga. 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]

Offices
  • Fairport - Qualitrol Headquarters
  • Belfast - Qualitrol Instruments Hathaway
  • east kilbride - Qualitrol DMS (discontinued)

References
  1. "About the Company". Qualitrol. 2012. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  2. "George Edward Ford Obituary". The New York Times. 28 December 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
  3. Ford, Louis (2001). Weezie: A Palm Beach Story. Media Creations, Incorporated, 2011. p. 168. ISBN 9781605946962.
  4. "Dynapar Industrial Encoders & Resolvers". dynapar.com. 2016. Archived from the original on 2012-05-27.
  5. Carr, Bruce (7 January 2009). "Meyer Named Thomson President". eBearing.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-25. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  6. "Dynapar Motion Control Sensor Rotary Encoders & Resolvers". Dynapar. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-09.
  7. Dubovoj, Sina; Ingram, Frederick (2006). "Danaher Corporation". Resource Library CBS Interactive. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  8. Zacks Equity Research (5 July 2016). "Danaher Completes Fortive Spin-Off, Trading to Begin Today". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  9. "Qualitrol and Neoptix to Collaborate on Fiber Optic Monitoring Solutions". Neoptix. 30 October 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  10. "Qualitrol, Neoptix to collaborate on Fiber Optic Monitoring Products". Transmission & Distribution World. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  11. "About Neoptix Canada LP". Neoptix. 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  12. "Qualitrol Acquires Iris Power" (PDF). Iris Power. 26 April 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-09-20. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  13. Cannon, Joan (18 October 2011). "Minutes of the Town of Perinton Conservation Board Meeting" (PDF). Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  14. "Neoptix".
  15. "Iris Power".
  16. "Contact Us". Qualitrol. 2012. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  17. "IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting". IEEE. 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  18. "CIGRE Technical Exhibition". CIGRE. 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
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