Uticor

All Research, Development and Manufacturing for Uticor is done at the company's plant in Bettendorf, IA. In the Automation industry, you know the company as the designers and manufacturers of the Uticor Toughpanel and Tough Smart Marquee products. What perhaps some of you may not know, is the history of two of the company's other divisions in this... business: Autotech Controls and Uticor Technologies. Uticor, formerly Struthers Dunn Systems division, has been in the forefront of PLC, welding controls, message displays and operator interface technology since 1968. Uticor, in fact, was one of the early inventors of PLCs back in 1968. It held numerous patents on PLCs, then called Process Control Computers. In the 1970's, Uticor applied it's PLC technology to welding controls and became one of the top suppliers of this technology to the Automotive industry. In fact, Uticor provided university research grants in collaboration with Ford in this area. In the 1980's, Uticor became known as the premier supplier of Message Displays and Marquees in North America. It's large LED marquees became an Automotive standard. Uticor always had a very conservative design philosophy and it showed in its products and thus earned worldwide recognition as "Built Like a Tank" or "Uticor Tough". AVG's Autotech division was the inventor of the first microprocessor based Programmable Limit Switch. In fact Autotech was the first company to coin the phrase "PLS" for replacing electro-mechanical cam-banks. Autotech has always lived by its tradition of being the most innovative company in the field of Automation controls.Read More