Electric Supply been in business "on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five," as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem noted. The family-owned company distributes electronic products and industrial supplies, such as cable, conduit, connectors and terminals, fiber-optic hardware, racks and cabinets, lubricants, and tools. Colonial Electric was established not in 1775, but 197 years later, in 1972.

Surge Technologies Inc. engages in design, manufacture, marketing, sale, and distribution of generic and custom application electrical surge protection solutions for the telecommunications industry in the United States and Canada. Products and Services The company offers a menu of services and courses targeted to assist telecommunication companies, organizations, and individuals involved with telecommunications infrastructure to understand the technical and implementation issues related to broadband connectivity and protection for networks. The company's primary product focus is electrical surge limiting terminals that combine field line installation with protection from transient voltage, lightning, induction, or electronic discharge. The company provides the ‘protection element’ for the distribution cables, as well as customer premise equipment. It supplies the industry with outside plant protection products, which include building entrance terminals, 5-pin protector modules, and station protectors. The company offers practical training, tailor-made to the specifics needs of the telecommunication connectivity, and protection, as well as assistance and on-site inspection and installation services. Sales Offices The company has sales, marketing, and distribution offices in Wheeling, Illinois, the United States of America.

Smiths designs sensors to identify biological and chemical agents, narcotics, weapons, and other illegal contraband, for use in banks, prisons, and industrial facilities, as well as in military, first response, transportation, and homeland security applications. Some of its detection and screening technologies utilize spectroscopy (gamma ray, ion mobility, Raman, and infra-red). Smiths company makes X-ray inspection units to scan mail, luggage, and freight, as well as to detect explosives. Smiths company manufactures metal detectors and makes systems for scanning trucks and freight containers. It is one of five subsidiaries of its parent company Smiths Group Plc.

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers products and technologies for the entertainment industry worldwide. The company offers products and services for content creators, which include encoding products and services for moviemakers, music studios, and video game designers; encoders, decoders, and processors for television producers and broadcasters; and mastering and packaging services for digital cinema business. It also provides encoders and digital audio coding technology for digital video disc producers. In addition, the company offers content distribution products and services, including broadcasting products for terrestrial, cable, and satellite broadcast transmissions; and provides training, broadcast system design expertise, and on-site technical expertise to broadcasters. It licenses its technologies to media software vendors, such as operating system vendors, independent software vendors, and integrated circuit manufacturers, as well as manufacturers of home audio and video products, set top boxes, video game consoles, mobile devices, in-car entertainment systems, and PC manufacturers. Dolby Laboratories sells its products directly to customers, as well as through dealers and distributors.

ClearSpeed Technology hopes customers find a clear advantage in its chips. The fabless semiconductor company offers specialized microprocessors designed to handle math-intensive computing functions more rapidly -- and with less energy consumption -- than standard processors. ClearSpeed's chips are programmable and process data in parallel; the company also offers related software and development tools. The company touts its products for heavy-duty number-crunching chores in areas such as biomedical research and sonar equipment. Its ClearSpeed Federal Systems subsidiary targets the US government and defense contractors market. Founded in 1997 as PixelFusion, ClearSpeed went private in 2009.

Leviton Manufacturing company makes switches, plugs, connectors, and integrated networks designed for home, commercial, and industrial uses. The company's divisions also produce lighting controls and voice and data equipment. Its Wiring Device division makes everything from basic switches to receptacles, including the designer Decora and Acenti collections. Its products are sold in North America to distributors, manufacturers, and retail outlets, such as Home Depot, Sears, and Wal-Mart. The Leviton family owns the company, which started out making tip mantles for gaslights in 1906.

Cognex Corporation provides machine vision products primarily in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Its machine vision products capture and analyze visual information used to automate tasks primarily in manufacturing processes, where vision is required. The company operates in two divisions, Modular Vision Systems and Surface Inspection Systems. The Modular Vision Systems division develops, manufactures, and markets modular vision systems that are used to automate the manufacture of discrete items, such as cellular phones, aspirin bottles, and automobile wheels, by locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring them during the manufacturing process. The Surface Inspection Systems division develops, manufactures, and markets surface inspection vision systems that are used to inspect the surfaces of materials processed in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, non-wovens, plastics, and glass. The company serves discrete factory automation, semiconductor and electronics capital equipment, and surface inspection markets. It sells its products through direct sales force and a network of integration and distribution partners. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.

SION Power Corporation company, spun off from Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1994, is developing rechargeable lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries for use in electric vehicles, unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, and military portable power applications. The batteries are touted for their high energy density (which allows the battery to operate longer) and low production costs when compared to lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries. Li-S batteries can also be manufactured using many of the same techniques used to produce other rechargeable batteries. SION Power -- whose name stems from sulfur ions -- is owned by its employees, officers, and outside investors.

Yaskawa Electric America (YEA), a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric, manufactures industrial automation equipment. Its products include industrial AC drives, commercial HVAC drives, spindle drives and motors, servo amplifier systems and motion controls, low-voltage industrial control switches, and medium-voltage switches, breakers, and contactors. The company's products are used in automotive, building automation, chemical and petrochemical, food and beverage, machine tool, material handling, metal forming, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, and textile applications. Its Motoman subsidiary makes industrial robots that can weld, assemble, cut, and handle goods for manufacturers.

picoChip Designs Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Bath, the United Kingdom. picoChip Designs Limited, a wireless silicon company, provides multi-core DSP products and femtocell reference designs. It offers femtocell system-on-chips (SoC)/baseband SoC processors; and picoArray, a suite of multiple instruction and data architecture devices for signal processing applications. The company also provides reference designs for fixed and mobile WiMAX, HSDPA/HSUPA software, TD-SCDMA software, CDMA, LTE software, basestation, WCDMA, and GSM applications for OEMs and telecom carriers to develop femtocells/cellular access point/wireless home gateway devices. In addition, it offers LTE development systems for small cells; and picoXcell system-on-chip devices and an integrated suite of HSPA+ femtocell access point software for system-level femtocell solutions. Further, the company provides training courses, including introductory courses and private sessions for engineers, scientists, educationalists, and companies.

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