Acromag
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Process Control |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Founder | Henry Patton |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Embedded systems, Process control equipment |
Number of employees | 70 (2024) |
| Website | www |
Acromag is an American company that manufactures embedded computing, process instrumentation, and distributed I/O products.
Established in 1957, Acromag started by building critical measurement instrumentation equipment for the petrochemical and aerospace industries. It went on to designs analog and digital control products for the industrial I/O and defense markets.
Acromag designed industrial I/O components which has led to developing ground loops, RFI/EMI noise, and temperature drift.[1][2][3] Many products are available with agency approvals such as UL, cUL, FM, CSA, CE, ATEX, and others to assure precise operation in hostile environments.
History
[edit]Acromag was founded in 1957 by Henry Patton, an early developer of solid-state magnetic amplifiers. Expanding from its first location in Detroit, Michigan, (now Southfield), Acromag later moved its headquarters to Wixom, Michigan.
It acquired Xembedded, LLC (formerly XycomVME) in 2012.[4]
The company made a number of Embedded Board Innovations over the years, including:
- 1960s – Designed and manufactured temperature transmitters[5] and thermo-electric metal testers
- 1970s – Rack-mount I/O systems and field-mount transmitters
- 1980s – Remote data acquisition systems; Exorbus and VMEbus I/O boards
- 1990s – μP-based signal conditioners; Industry Pack[6] modules and carrier cards
- 2000s – Distributed I/O; PMC modules, PCI and CompactPCI I/O boards, reconfigurable FPGA modules[7]
- 2010s – USB-configured instruments;[8] XMC modules, VPX boards, industrial PCs
- 2016 – Offer contract manufacturing services
Operations
[edit]The company has three product divisions: Embedded Computing Solutions, Process Control and Automation Solutions and Contract Manufacturing Services. Its product lines focus on manufacturing, military, scientific, public utility, and transportation applications.
References
[edit]- ^ "Introduction to the 2-Wire Transmitter and 4-20mA Control Loop". Control Global. 2012. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012.
- ^ "New Head-Mount Thermocouple Transmitter from Wixom's Acromag". 2011-07-12. Archived from the original on 2023-08-10.
- ^ "Transmitters resist temperature drift". EE Times. April 10, 2000.
- ^ "Business barometer – Changes ahead?". Vita Technologies. February 27, 2016. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
- ^ "Temperature Transmitters for Signal Conditioning". Archived from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
- ^ "Acromag's New Industry Pack Analog Output Modules Provide High Channel Density, High Speed Processing and High Resolution D/A Conversion". Automation Dot Com. November 19, 2004.
- ^ "XMC Module with Configurable FPGA Targets Cost-Sensitive Embedded Tasks". Archived from the original on 2012-05-17.
- ^ "Acromag: New 4-Wire Transmitters". Automation World. November 20, 2012.