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NI Made the Test Bench Programmable. Emerson Bet $8.2 Billion It Could Make It Bigger
For nearly 50 years, NI has sold engineers a stubbornly useful idea: the instrument is better when software calls the shots. Now the company has Emerson's scale, an AI assistant named Nigel and the harder task of modernizing without breaking the systems customers already trust.
EXFO Built the Picks and Shovels for the Fiber Gold Rush - Now It Is Testing the AI Boom
The Quebec City company made its name finding microscopic faults in fiber networks. After four decades of expansion, acquisitions and a return to private ownership, EXFO is narrowing its focus just as AI data centers turn network testing into a much bigger problem.
The Company Behind the Gauge on the Wall
Dwyer Instruments has been making the little pressure gauges bolted to industrial walls since 1931. In 2022 it swallowed OMEGA Engineering - a company twice its public profile - and became a measurement conglomerate hiding in plain sight.
Emerson
Emerson spent a century making the machinery of modern life. Now it is assembling something harder to see: the digital nervous system for factories, power grids and process plants.
Loadstar Sensors
Loadstar Sensors is a Fremont, California maker of digital force and weight sensors that invented the world's first USB load cell. Its capacitive load cells, wireless interfaces and companion software let engineers plug a sensor into a PC, phone or the cloud and read forces in seconds - no signal-conditioning expertise required. Founded in 2003 by Wharton MBA Div Harish, the company says it has served more than 10,000 customers across 85+ countries and holds 20+ patents, and it manufactures in the US.