Electronics
Our Electronics group is a global component and value-added solutions provider of both sensing and switching technologies along with magnetic power conversion components and assemblies. We are focused on designing, engineering, and manufacturing innovative solutions, components and assemblies to solve our customers’ application needs with a commitment to a customer first attitude through our Partner/Solve/Deliver® approach. Our approach allows us to expand the business through pursuing organic growth with our current customers, developing new products and technologies for both new and existing customers, driving geographic expansion, and pursuing inorganic growth through strategic acquisitions. Components are manufactured in plants located in the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., Germany, Japan, China and India.
Markets and Applications
Our diverse and highly engineered products and solutions and vertically integrated manufacturing capabilities are vital to an array of markets and provide safe and efficient power transformation, current monitoring, isolation, as well as sensors and relays to monitor systems for function and safety. The enduser of our engineered solution is typically an Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) industrial equipment manufacturer. End-user markets include, but are not limited to, smart-grid, alternative energy, appliances, HVAC, security, military, medical, aerospace, test and measurement, power distribution, transportation and general industrial applications.
Brands
Business unit names are Standex Electronics, Standex-Meder Electronics, Northlake Engineering, Agile Magnetics, Standex Electronics Japan, and the MEDER, KENT, and KOFU reed switch brands.
Products
Our sensing products employ technologies such as reed switch, Hall effect, inductive, conductive and other technologies. Sensing based solutions include reed relays, fluid level, proximity, motion, flow, HVAC condensate as well as custom electronic sensors containing our core technologies. The magnetics or power conversion products include custom wound transformers and inductors for low and high frequency applications, current sense technology, advanced planar transformer technology, value added assemblies, and mechanical packaging.
Customers
The business sells to a wide variety of industrial, medical, power, automotive and consumer goods customers globally through a direct sales force, regional sales managers, and field applications engineers, commissioned agents, representative groups, and distribution channels.