Hengstler is a medium-sized company, which is specialized in the production of industrial counting and control components. As a subsidiary of
Fortive
Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology conglomerate company headquartered in Everett, Washington. Fortive was spun off from Danaher in July 2016. Mitchell Rales and Steven M. Rales, Danaher's founders, retained board seats ...
, it is represented nationwide on the international electro mechanic market.
History
The watchmaker Johannes Hengstler started in 1846, in the south of Germany, with the series production of springs. Over the coming decades, the production was enlarged with relay, rotary encoder, mechanical counter and also printer & cutter.
In 1995, the company has been taken over by Danaher Corporation, an American concern which includes more than 400 companies. Today, Hengstler has various prominent customers like Siemens, IBM, Festo or Bosch.
Products
Hengstler supplies a complete project management with custom-made applications concerning process control and environmental technology.
It produces, for example,
incremental
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*Incrementalism, a theory (also used in politics as a synonym for gradualism)
*Increment and decrement operators, the operators ++ and -- in computer programming
*Incremental computing
*Incremental backup, wh ...
and absolute encoders,
relay
A relay
Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts
An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off
A relay is an electrically operated switch ...
s,
mechanical counter
Mechanical counters are digital counters built using mechanical components. Long before electronics became common, mechanical devices were used to count events. They typically consist of a series of disks mounted on an axle, with the digits zero ...
s, and industrial printers and cutters.
International
Hengstler has a sister company in Slovakia, and branches in France, Italy, the US and Asia. It owns the Danaher Corporation, with over 400 including companies and locations in over 30 countries and around 60,000 employees. Danaher generates an annual turnover of several billion US dollars.
References
External links
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Danaher website{{Fortive
Manufacturing companies of Germany