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Qualitrol LLC, named after the merge of the words Quality (from Latin qualitas) and Control (from Latin contrarotulus), is a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. Qualitrol is a global company headquartered in Fairport, New York, United States that provides smart utility asset condition monitoring. Qualitrol delivers partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products across electrical generation, transmission and distribution.

The company offers customer training services and field services, such as on-site start-up and testing, customized maintenance, product upgrades, troubleshooting, and repair services. It serves customers in the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. As of 2012, Raj Karanam is the president of the company that employs more than 700 people worldwide.

Early Days
George Ford was the original founder of Qualitrol. Mr. Ford, born in 1907 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and son of Thomas Henry Ford and Rachel Mary Jones, was a private investor, sportsman, and philanthropist. 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.

At the age of 38, he left his position as Vice President of Engineering at the Rochester Manufacturing Company to establish a new company when he became aware of a major deficiency in the manufacturing industry of heavy electronic transformers and generators of diesel engines. He identified the risks of unexpected accidents while using gas and flame without protective devices.

Using seed money from his brother in law, Mort Watters, and from his mother in law, Rose Gavin, Mr. Ford decided to build a company to fill the need for monitoring and controlling devices for the electrical transformers industry. Thus, in 1945 Mr. Ford founded Qualitrol Corporation in Fairport, New York, and began to provide the electric utility industry with protective devices and monitor the systems for transmission and distribution. Mr. Ford opened a branch of Qualitrol in Waynesboro, Tennessee to manufacture valves. Later, Mr. Ford bought the Microcontrol in St. Louis, Missouri, a manufacturer of thermostats, and the Dynapar Corporation in Gurney, Illinois a manufacturer of digital controls. Finally, in the late 1960's, Mr. Ford sold all of his business interests to devote more time to his love of sports.

Danaher Acquisition
Qualitrol LLC traces its roots to 1986, when Danaher Corporation acquired Qualitrol. Within two years of Danaher's founding in 1984, Danaher Corporation acquired 12 companies as part of a strategy to enter the manufacturing business. Thus, Qualitrol became part of Danaher's instrumentation unit, which included Gilbarco Veeder-Root's underground fuel storage sensors, Dynapar's motion sensors and Qualitrol's pressure and temperature measurement instruments, used on the electrical transformer industry.

Corporate Affairs
At the end of 2007, Qualitrol started to collaborate with Neoptix Inc. Headquartered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Neoptix is manufacturer of fiber optic temperature sensors. 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, while developing and producing new solutions for on-line condition monitoring for the electric transmission and distribution markets. Subsequently, Neoptix became a sole subsidiary of Qualitrol.

In 2010, Qualitrol acquired Iris Power. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Iris Power is a supplier of on-line partial discharge testing of stator winding insulation in large motors and generators. Qualitrol purchased Iris power from subsidiaries of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a multinational from Wichita, Kansas, United States. Iris Power's fleet of portable and continuous instruments, and monitoring systems that are integrated into a power plants Distributed Control System (DCS) or a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), brought to Qualitrol a close strategic fit directed to assisting Qualitrol's utility customers, from electrical generation to transmission and distribution.

Divisions

 * Asset Protection
 * Transmission and Distribution
 * Condition monitoring for Transmission and Distribution
 * Condition monitoring for Generation
 * Services

Asset Protection

 * Temperature Measurement Devices
 * Pressure Controls, Gauges, and Relays
 * Transformer Monitors
 * Liquid Level
 * Flow
 * Gas
 * Breaker Monitors, SF6 Controls and Gauges

Transmission and Distribution

 * Fault Recording and Fault Location
 * Power Quality Monitoring
 * Sequential Events Recording and Alarm Annunciation
 * Multifunction Software

Condition Monitoring

 * Transformer Monitors
 * Breaker Monitors, SF6 Controls and Gauges
 * Partial Discharge
 * Cable Monitoring

Global Operations
Headquarter in Fairport, New York, United States, the company also has manufacturing facilities in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Glasgow, United Kingdom; Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The Belfast facility focuses on Qualitrol Instruments and the Glasgow facility develops Qualitrol DMS. The Quebec City unit operates under Neoptix and the Mississauga unit operates under Iris Power. Though each location specializes in distinct areas of the Qualitrol, the projects are worked on by teams in multiple locations.

Qualitrol adheres to the following international organizations:
 * Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
 * International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE)

Headquarters Expansion
At the end of 2011, Qualitrol began the expansion of its current production facility in Fairport, New York, United States, to 30,000 square feet. The expansion proposal was submitted to the Conservation Board of the town of Perinton, New York, United States, and will take place in two phases, each phase at 15,000 square feet. Although there is no timeline for Phase 2 of the expansion, the Phase 1 of the project is expected to be completed at the end of 2012.

Subsidiaries

 * Qualitrol LLC
 * Iris Power LP
 * Neoptix Fiber Optics LP

Executive Management

 * President: Raj Karanam
 * Vice President Iris Power: Joseph Mbuyi
 * Vice President Global Sales: James Cunningham
 * Vice President Finance: Murphy Shane
 * Vice President Human Resources: Brian English
 * Director Marketing: Fred Lu