Supplier Spotlight: Ametek Solidstate Controls

Purpose
The purpose of our business is to provide continuity of electrical power to keep businesses in business. We do this by helping clients solve their power problems and by creating the most economical long term results.

Industrial Process and Power Generation Market Focus
AMETEK Solidstate Controls (Solidstate ) was established in 1962. We are focused on serving only industrial process and power generating clients and have more than 35,000 systems installed throughout the world, including more than 85 Nuclear Power plants worldwide.

Product Reliability
Industrial Process and Power Generating businesses are subject to severe consequences when power problems occur. Human safety, the environment and lost revenue are at stake. Our 18 years MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) - based on actual field experience - is the highest available rating in the industry. This technology allows you to reliably keep operations running at a very low cost for the 40 year expected life of the equipment.

Modern, Efficient Facilities
Solidstate operates from its main office and manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio. The facility is situated on 13 acres with a 56,000 square foot (6000 sq. meters) building. Operations required to design, manufacture, and service the power systems are performed by more than 175 people located in this facility. Solidstate also has a 10,000 square foot manufacturing facility with 17 employees in Rosario, Argentina that designs and manufactures uninterruptible power systems, battery chargers, inverters, cathodic protection systems and electroplating rectifiers for industrial applications.

Included in the capabilities are computer-aided design and drafting (2D and 3D); a leading edge in-house metal shop; transformer manufacturing, including computer controlled winding machinery and a vacuum impregnation system; electronic assembly; printed circuit board (PCB) assembly; painting and testing.