Roper Industries
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Roper Industries is a diversified industrial company that produces engineered products for global niche markets. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida
.
Roper provides a wide range of products and services to customers in over 100 countries. The company has four main business lines: Industrial
Technology, Radio Frequency
(RF) Technology, Scientific and Industrial
Imaging and Energy
Systems and Controls
. The company states that it is entrepreneurial yet highly disciplined, and plans to accelerate its growth by using strong cash flow to fund internal expansion and acquisitions. Roper joined the Russell 1000
index in 2004, and has annual revenue
s of more than US$1.7 billion, as of 2006.
George D. Roper founded the company in the late 19th century, primarily as a manufacturer of home appliance
s, pump
s and other industrial products. Roper initiated a corporate acquisition
program, supported by an initial public offering
, in 1992.
In 2001, Brian Jellison, a former executive of General Electric
and Ingersoll-Rand, joined Roper as Chief Executive Officer
. The company states that since then, it has improved its operating capabilities, increased its financial capacity and positioned Roper in markets with attractive growth prospects. The previous holding company
business strategy has been replaced with an operating company model. Since 2001 Roper has completed acquisitions accounting for over half its revenues, establishing the company in global growth markets, such as radio frequency identification(RFID) and water
. Roper states that during the 2001–2005 era it has paid investor
s steadily increasing dividend
s and seen its stock price rise.
and gas
, rail
, marine
, power generation and many other markets with tailored design solutions for the control and monitoring of process packages, engines, compressors and pumps. AMOT invented the industrial thermostatic
valve
and has been manufacturer of components for rotating machinery since 1948.
AMOT currently has four manufacturing sites and nine sales offices positioned strategically around the world with its main offices in Houston, Texas
; Edmonton, Canada; and Bury St. Edmunds, England. The company employs 160 people.
s, and tablet computer
s. DAP's computers are designed for harsh environments, so they can be used in logistics
operations, transportation, warehouses, field service, utilities, law enforcement, and the energy industry
, as well as other applications.
DAP distributes its computers in more than 60 countries, and operates subsidiaries in Paris, France, Abingdon, England and Tokyo, Japan. The company employs 150 people.
, United States
, founded in 1981, that produces image processing
software used worldwide for industrial
, scientific, medical and biotechnology
applications. In recent years, Media Cybernetics acquired the assets of Definitive Imaging, QED Imaging and AutoQuant Imaging.
Image-Pro Plus is Media Cybernetics' flagship image analysis software. Published since 1985, Image-Pro Plus enables researchers to capture, communicate, process, measure and analyze image data. Along with Image-Pro Plus, Media Cybernetics offers software packages for image deconvolution
, live cell imaging, 3D
rendering and visualization and image management.
s, optical camera
s, CCD
and EMCCD camera
s, spectroscopy
instrumentation and electronic sub-assemblies.
Princeton Instruments is divided into these application-specific groups:
Imaging Group provides cameras for applications that include Astronomy, BEC, Combustion, PIV, Single Molecule, Surface and Material Analysis, PSP, and Nanotechnology.
Spectroscopy Group provides spectrometers, cameras and systems for Raman, LIBS, NIR, Absorption, Fluorescence, and Luminescence.
X-Ray Group manufactures cameras for EUV, Lithography, XRS, Plasma, Diffraction, Microscopy, and Tomography applications.
Industrial Group provides MEGAPLUS cameras for Semiconductor, Web Inspection, Document and Film Capture, Digital Radiography, and Ophthalmology.
Acton Optics & Coatings provides optical components for Medical, Semiconductor, Material Processing, Analytical Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defense applications.
The company has based in Trenton, New Jersey
and Acton, Massachusetts
.
, that specializes in Intelligent Transportation System
s. TransCore was acquired by Roper Industries in 2004.
TransCore has three major product families. The first family is in RFID transponder
s and readers. In this family, their original product line reflects their acquisition of Amtech Systems in 2000 (also a supplier of production and automation systems for the manufacture of solar cell
s). These transponders come in a plastic case, for either windshield or external mounting. Their newer line is the eGo windshield sticker transponder system, which is a low-cost, batteryless system designed for one-time attachment to a windshield. These transponders are found in electronic toll collection
, fleet tracking, payment, parking
and access control applications.
The second product family is the TransCore Tracking satellite
communication system. This family offers truck tracking, trailer tracking, and temperature and cargo monitoring systems for commercial and private fleets. They use GPS and GEOS technology to transmit data from the truck or trailer to the dispatch center.
The third product family is freight matching. TransCore offers multiple load board products for owner-operators, carriers, brokers, shippers, and 3PLs. The underlying framework is the DAT Network, the first electronic freight posting service, acquired in 2001 from the Jubitz Corporation. DAT Services began as Dial-a-truck
(DAT), a freight matching service operated at the Jubitz Truck Stop. It evolved to become the original and largest internet loadboard, a matchmaking service for 50 million freight loads and trucks per year. TransCore offers access to the DAT Network through a variety of loadboard products, operating under a variety of brand names. These products include: DAT Partners, DATConnect, 3sixty Freight Match, 3sixty Express and TruckersEdge.
In addition, TransCore has a substantial services business, designing, building and operating ITS facilities. This may be a complete electronic toll collection system, with design, build, transponders, equipment, customer service and violation enforcement, or any part of it. For example, TransCore operates the ETC systems for several E-ZPass
members, even though E-ZPass has an exclusive contract with another manufacturer for transponders. Meanwhile, the Good To Go!
system in Washington state is a complete drop-in design/build/operate of an eGo system.
In total, iTradeNetwork partners with over 5,500 companies including:
8 of the top 20 restaurant chains,
4 of the top 6 foodservice management companies,
75 of the top 100 manufacturers,
50 of the top 50 distributors &
16 of the top 20 food retailers/wholesalers
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. It is south of the Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers...
.
Roper provides a wide range of products and services to customers in over 100 countries. The company has four main business lines: Industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
Technology, Radio Frequency
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...
(RF) Technology, Scientific and Industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
Imaging and Energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
Systems and Controls
Control system
A control system is a device, or set of devices to manage, command, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or system.There are two common classes of control systems, with many variations and combinations: logic or sequential controls, and feedback or linear controls...
. The company states that it is entrepreneurial yet highly disciplined, and plans to accelerate its growth by using strong cash flow to fund internal expansion and acquisitions. Roper joined the Russell 1000
Russell 1000
The Russell 1000 Index is a stock market index that represents the highest-ranking 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represents about 90% of the total market capitalization of that index. The Russell 1000 Index has a weighted average market capitalization of $81 billion; the median...
index in 2004, and has annual revenue
Revenue
In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In many countries, such as the United Kingdom, revenue is referred to as turnover....
s of more than US$1.7 billion, as of 2006.
George D. Roper founded the company in the late 19th century, primarily as a manufacturer of home appliance
Home appliance
Home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions, such as cooking or cleaning. Home appliances can be classified into:*Major appliances, or White goods*Small appliances, or Brown goods...
s, pump
Pump
A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or slurries.A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. Pumps fall into three major groups: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps...
s and other industrial products. Roper initiated a corporate acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...
program, supported by an initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...
, in 1992.
In 2001, Brian Jellison, a former executive of General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
and Ingersoll-Rand, joined Roper as Chief Executive Officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
. The company states that since then, it has improved its operating capabilities, increased its financial capacity and positioned Roper in markets with attractive growth prospects. The previous holding company
Holding company
A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...
business strategy has been replaced with an operating company model. Since 2001 Roper has completed acquisitions accounting for over half its revenues, establishing the company in global growth markets, such as radio frequency identification(RFID) and water
Water
Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...
. Roper states that during the 2001–2005 era it has paid investor
Investor
An investor is a party that makes an investment into one or more categories of assets --- equity, debt securities, real estate, currency, commodity, derivatives such as put and call options, etc...
s steadily increasing dividend
Dividend
Dividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members. It is the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, that money can be put to two uses: it can either be re-invested in the business , or it can be distributed to...
s and seen its stock price rise.
AMOT
AMOT provides the oilOil
An oil is any substance that is liquid at ambient temperatures and does not mix with water but may mix with other oils and organic solvents. This general definition includes vegetable oils, volatile essential oils, petrochemical oils, and synthetic oils....
and gas
Gas
Gas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...
, rail
Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles merely run on a prepared surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks they run on...
, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
, power generation and many other markets with tailored design solutions for the control and monitoring of process packages, engines, compressors and pumps. AMOT invented the industrial thermostatic
Thermostatic
Thermostatic are a Swedish electronic band, formed in Gothenburg in 2003. Their music can be said to fall within the genre categories of bitpop and synthpop, with the band inspired by the "video games and computer era of the eighties."...
valve
Valve
A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically pipe fittings, but are usually discussed as a separate category...
and has been manufacturer of components for rotating machinery since 1948.
AMOT currently has four manufacturing sites and nine sales offices positioned strategically around the world with its main offices in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
; Edmonton, Canada; and Bury St. Edmunds, England. The company employs 160 people.
DAP Technologies
DAP Technologies manufactures rugged mobile computers, including portable data terminalPortable data terminal
A portable data terminal, or PDT, is an electronic device that is used to enter or retrieve data via wireless transmission . They can also serve as barcode readers, and they are used in large stores, warehouses, hospitals, or in the field, to access a database from a remote location.PDT's...
s, and tablet computer
Tablet computer
A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...
s. DAP's computers are designed for harsh environments, so they can be used in logistics
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
operations, transportation, warehouses, field service, utilities, law enforcement, and the energy industry
Energy industry
The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution...
, as well as other applications.
DAP distributes its computers in more than 60 countries, and operates subsidiaries in Paris, France, Abingdon, England and Tokyo, Japan. The company employs 150 people.
Media Cybernetics
Media Cybernetics is a company in MarylandMaryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, founded in 1981, that produces image processing
Image processing
In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...
software used worldwide for industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
, scientific, medical and biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
applications. In recent years, Media Cybernetics acquired the assets of Definitive Imaging, QED Imaging and AutoQuant Imaging.
Image-Pro Plus is Media Cybernetics' flagship image analysis software. Published since 1985, Image-Pro Plus enables researchers to capture, communicate, process, measure and analyze image data. Along with Image-Pro Plus, Media Cybernetics offers software packages for image deconvolution
Deconvolution
In mathematics, deconvolution is an algorithm-based process used to reverse the effects of convolution on recorded data. The concept of deconvolution is widely used in the techniques of signal processing and image processing...
, live cell imaging, 3D
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
rendering and visualization and image management.
Princeton Instruments
Princeton Instruments, Princeton Instruments, manufactures scientific imaging equipment, optical coatingOptical coating
An optical coating is one or more thin layers of material deposited on an optical component such as a lens or mirror, which alters the way in which the optic reflects and transmits light. One type of optical coating is an antireflection coating, which reduces unwanted reflections from surfaces, and...
s, optical camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
s, CCD
Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time...
and EMCCD camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
s, spectroscopy
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between matter and radiated energy. Historically, spectroscopy originated through the study of visible light dispersed according to its wavelength, e.g., by a prism. Later the concept was expanded greatly to comprise any interaction with radiative...
instrumentation and electronic sub-assemblies.
Princeton Instruments is divided into these application-specific groups:
Imaging Group provides cameras for applications that include Astronomy, BEC, Combustion, PIV, Single Molecule, Surface and Material Analysis, PSP, and Nanotechnology.
Spectroscopy Group provides spectrometers, cameras and systems for Raman, LIBS, NIR, Absorption, Fluorescence, and Luminescence.
X-Ray Group manufactures cameras for EUV, Lithography, XRS, Plasma, Diffraction, Microscopy, and Tomography applications.
Industrial Group provides MEGAPLUS cameras for Semiconductor, Web Inspection, Document and Film Capture, Digital Radiography, and Ophthalmology.
Acton Optics & Coatings provides optical components for Medical, Semiconductor, Material Processing, Analytical Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defense applications.
The company has based in Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...
and Acton, Massachusetts
Acton, Massachusetts
Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States about twenty-one miles west-northwest of Boston along Route 2 west of Concord and about ten miles southwest of Lowell. The population was 21,924 at the 2010 census...
.
TransCore
TransCore is a subsidiary of Roper Industries, based in Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaHarrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
, that specializes in Intelligent Transportation System
Intelligent transportation system
The term intelligent transportation systems refers to information and communication technology that improve transport outcomes such as transport safety, transport productivity, travel reliability, informed travel choices, social equity, environmental performance and network operation...
s. TransCore was acquired by Roper Industries in 2004.
TransCore has three major product families. The first family is in RFID transponder
Transponder
In telecommunication, the term transponder has the following meanings:...
s and readers. In this family, their original product line reflects their acquisition of Amtech Systems in 2000 (also a supplier of production and automation systems for the manufacture of solar cell
Solar cell
A solar cell is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect....
s). These transponders come in a plastic case, for either windshield or external mounting. Their newer line is the eGo windshield sticker transponder system, which is a low-cost, batteryless system designed for one-time attachment to a windshield. These transponders are found in electronic toll collection
Electronic toll collection
Electronic toll collection , an adaptation of military "identification friend or foe" technology, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads by collecting tolls electronically. It is thus a technological implementation of a road pricing concept...
, fleet tracking, payment, parking
Parking
Parking is the act of stopping a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied for more than a brief time. Parking on one or both sides of a road is commonly permitted, though often with restrictions...
and access control applications.
The second product family is the TransCore Tracking satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
communication system. This family offers truck tracking, trailer tracking, and temperature and cargo monitoring systems for commercial and private fleets. They use GPS and GEOS technology to transmit data from the truck or trailer to the dispatch center.
The third product family is freight matching. TransCore offers multiple load board products for owner-operators, carriers, brokers, shippers, and 3PLs. The underlying framework is the DAT Network, the first electronic freight posting service, acquired in 2001 from the Jubitz Corporation. DAT Services began as Dial-a-truck
Dial-a-truck
Dial-a-Truck is an electronic freight posting service serving North America. It was the first system of its kind and established in 1978....
(DAT), a freight matching service operated at the Jubitz Truck Stop. It evolved to become the original and largest internet loadboard, a matchmaking service for 50 million freight loads and trucks per year. TransCore offers access to the DAT Network through a variety of loadboard products, operating under a variety of brand names. These products include: DAT Partners, DATConnect, 3sixty Freight Match, 3sixty Express and TruckersEdge.
In addition, TransCore has a substantial services business, designing, building and operating ITS facilities. This may be a complete electronic toll collection system, with design, build, transponders, equipment, customer service and violation enforcement, or any part of it. For example, TransCore operates the ETC systems for several E-ZPass
E-ZPass
E-ZPass is an electronic toll-collection system used on most tolled roads, bridges, and tunnels in the northeastern US, south to Virginia and West Virginia, and west to Illinois. Currently, there are 25 agencies spread across 14 states that make up the . All member agencies use the same technology,...
members, even though E-ZPass has an exclusive contract with another manufacturer for transponders. Meanwhile, the Good To Go!
Good To Go!
Good To Go! is the electronic toll collection system used by the Washington State Department of Transportation on all current and future toll projects in the state of Washington. Good To Go! customers prepay their tolls into an account, the tolls are then electronically deducted as the customer...
system in Washington state is a complete drop-in design/build/operate of an eGo system.
The CBORD Group, Inc.
Roper acquired The CBORD Group, Inc. on February 21, 2008. CBORD was founded in Ithaca, NY in 1975. CBORD products are used in food services, catering, campus ID privilege control, and other industries. The products include CS Gold, Odyssey PCS, Foodservice Suite, Webfood, Nutrition Service Suite, EventMaster, and GeriMenu. CBORD has offices in Ithaca, NY; Canton, OH; Waco, TX; Cypress, CA; and Sydney, Australia.iTradeNetwork
The leading provider of supply chain management and intelligence solutions to the food industry with offices both in the USA and UK.In total, iTradeNetwork partners with over 5,500 companies including:
8 of the top 20 restaurant chains,
4 of the top 6 foodservice management companies,
75 of the top 100 manufacturers,
50 of the top 50 distributors &
16 of the top 20 food retailers/wholesalers