| PROFILE |
Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI) provides a greater measure of confidence to customers around the world by designing solutions for their emerging test and measurement needs. By building from its strength in electrical measurement solutions for research, Keithley has become a production test technology leader through working partnerships with leaders in fields where the pace of innovation and change is very fast, such as global communications, semiconductors, and components manufacturing. More information is available at www.keithley.com. |
| 2007 SALES |
$143.7 million |
| EMPLOYEES |
More than 650, with sales representatives in more than 80 countries. The company has subsidiaries or sales offices in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan. |
| KEY EXECUTIVE OFFICERS |
Joseph P. Keithley – Chairman, CEO and President
Mark J. Plush – CFO and Vice President
Linda C. Rae – Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer |
| KEY MARKETS |
Keithley offers a broad line of test and measurement solutions for engineers and scientists throughout the world in dozens of disciplines. The company markets highly accurate instruments and data acquisition products that measure low levels of voltage, resistance, current, capacitance, and charge, along with complete system solutions for high volume production and assembly testing.
Keithley focuses on developing new solutions for the broader electronics industry, as well as for several primary markets:
Electronic Manufacturing Production Test - high throughput solutions for component testing, encompassing the entire spectrum of control, connect, and source-measure instrumentation. Keithley's instruments are used from the initial production steps through final quality assurance tests and parts binning on diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, sensors, and other electronic components.
Flat Panel Displays/Optoelectronics - for testing the LCD/OLED optical components and diodes commonly used in display and fiberoptic telecommunications/datacom component industries, which require specialized test equipment capable of low current, high precision measurements.
Research/Education - scientific solutions that provide highly accurate, low level measurements for research into superconductivity, metals, polymers, insulators, and semiconductors.
Semiconductor - for device characterization and monitoring semiconductor wafer processing, including Automated Parametric Test systems, Wafer Level Reliability systems, and I-V/C-V test systems.
Telecommunications/Wireless - a broad line of fully integrated products for testing telecommunications devices, such as cellular phones, pagers, mobile radio base stations, and digital switch systems used in product design, production, and QA/QC labs.
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| HISTORY |
Since 1946, Keithley Instruments has been engineering the future of testing technology. The company was founded by Joseph F. Keithley, whose contributions to measurement science led to groundbreaking technologies. The company's earliest electronic measuring devices, such as electrometers and picoammeters, were ideal for measuring low level electrical signals precisely and were sold to scientists and physicists in laboratories around the world.
Over the years, Keithley has extended its measurement technology to create innovative solutions for high volume production test applications in the telecommunications, semiconductor, optoelectronics, and other segments of the electronics industry. Keithley is consistently recognized as a leader in electronic measurements, and has won 20 R&D 100 Awards, the State of Ohio's prestigious Edison Award, and other industry and civic accolades.
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