Danaher buys Tektronix (among many others) who buys Sypris Test & Measurement who buys Davis Calibration
Discuss...
:-o
Telephone.. Telegraph... and the PMEL forum.. Man does news travel fast..
Last I heard Davis was partnering up with Agilent, but this is new... Anyone have a link to the press release?
http://www.daviscalibration.com/press/view-press-release.aspx?id=30
Surely this must be a direct result of global warming and a conspiracy involving the former Bush administration.
:roll:
No one is more shocked than us in the mix. What's up cracker?
Quote from: measfreak on 01-08-2010 -- 20:14:38
:roll:
No one is more shocked than us in the mix. What's up cracker?
Not much, over here freezing my patooty off in PA, thought you fell off the planet!
You guys getting all new work shirts?
Quote from: griff61 on 01-08-2010 -- 20:24:18
Quote from: measfreak on 01-08-2010 -- 20:14:38
:roll:
No one is more shocked than us in the mix. What's up cracker?
Not much, over here freezing my patooty off in PA, thought you fell off the planet!
You guys getting all new work shirts?
Griff..I'll trade you you're 40" of snow for the -20 F here, any day..plus, I know some great fishing spots in PA and NY...
If they send you up to Ft. Drum..the streams around Wescott Beach are great for trout and smallmouth...
You shovel your roof, I'll plug the block heater in
Mike
I thought you were still in town. Shirts are the same. I'll email
freak out!
Quote from: mdbuike on 01-09-2010 -- 08:26:15
Quote from: griff61 on 01-08-2010 -- 20:24:18
Quote from: measfreak on 01-08-2010 -- 20:14:38
:roll:
No one is more shocked than us in the mix. What's up cracker?
Not much, over here freezing my patooty off in PA, thought you fell off the planet!
You guys getting all new work shirts?
Griff..I'll trade you you're 40" of snow for the -20 F here, any day..plus, I know some great fishing spots in PA and NY...
If they send you up to Ft. Drum..the streams around Wescott Beach are great for trout and smallmouth...
You shovel your roof, I'll plug the block heater in
Mike
My kid was born in Watertown when I was stationed at Drum back in the last century, be there for a month TDY in April, so there'll only be 6 or 7 feet of snow left...
Yeah, I was at Griffiss '74 to '76, worked at the Verona Test Site...by Dec '75, we had over six feet of snow..then I got my assignment to the Phillipines, and was there by March of '76 (two months travel time because of use of dog sleds :-D ).
Have a great one, and take care through Syracuse, ya know they have an upside down traffic light there....
Mike
Davis Caibration, Sypris, Tektronix, DHI, Fluke, Hart, Raytek, Ircon, DataPaq, DNI, Biotek, Metron. I'm sure there's more to come. Test equipment is a small part of their world. They are heavily into the medical and dental world. They are worldwide. Danaher is a cash heavy company and they'll wait until they think you're at rock bottom when they come with the cash. If they had a nice linear company, the only ones standing in their way for US metrology and calibration would be Agilent. Good luck trying that with Hewlett Packard behind them. I just spent the last 5 years working for Danaher before I left. They underpay and overwork everyone. They're good for the stockholders; not so good for the employees. Has anyone seen a comment from Colleen Maxwell since this happened? Danaher definitely likes to run hiring and HR their own way. The word is out on them. A lot of really good people will leave a company very quickly when they learn they've just been bought out by Danaher. The way they stick it to some is that you don't get a severance package if you leave before they want you to.
Quote from: Bill the Cat on 01-10-2010 -- 22:46:20
A lot of really good people will leave a company very quickly when they learn they've just been bought out by Danaher. The way they stick it to some is that you don't get a severance package if you leave before they want you to.
I sure fooled them, I left 4 years before they bought Sypris...that'll teach em
I wonder what's up with the guys that worked in the Fluke Service Center in Dallas that got shut down last year. It must be pretty strange for them to see the Danaher mother ship bulking up calibration capability and locations under the Tek flag while decreasing metrology facilities for Fluke.
They will be rehired at much reduced pay@!@!
Did Danaher just buy Sypris T&M or Sypris Solutions? Does Danaher consolidate like companies or run reach company on their own?
They wish! It's not that good. You cherry pick a few of the best, bring them to Everett and release the rest. Then you tell the ones you brought along that they have to meet the same customer turnaround time with less people because you'll have increased efficiencies at the combined site. The others are just SOL.
I wondered about Fluke in Dallas also, I miss them.
Here is the text from the acquisition notice for Sypris.
Sypris Test & Measurement Joins The Tektronix Family
Tektronix has signed an agreement to acquire Sypris Test & Measurement (STM), a leading provider of calibration services, testing and component sourcing services and specialty products. This acquisition will enable more local support for Tektronix customers' service needs including temporary on site, permanent onsite, mobile and depot based calibration for more than 96,000 Tektronix and other test & measurement vendor products.
Well here we are 7 months after the mast. . . . . . . .
We will soon all be known as "Tektronix Service Solutions" No more Davis, no more Sypris. . . . . . just one big happy Tektronix family. . . . . . . . new logos should come out very soon. . . . . . . . . . business cards, new certs. . . . etc etc
It's been an interesting assimilation. . . . . . . . . our organizational structure is back in place almost like it was when we were part of GE :)
The only big independant left is Agilent.
Maybe I missed it in another thread, but is Simco still independant? Just curious...I was thinking they were bought by another company in recent years or even months.
Next will come the cuts (I mean consolidations) of people and labs.
Quote from: KingOfChatalot on 08-06-2010 -- 07:55:48
Well here we are 7 months after the mast. . . . . . . .
We will soon all be known as "Tektronix Service Solutions" No more Davis, no more Sypris. . . . . . just one big happy Tektronix family. . . . . . . . new logos should come out very soon. . . . . . . . . . business cards, new certs. . . . etc etc
It's been an interesting assimilation. . . . . . . . . our organizational structure is back in place almost like it was when we were part of GE :)
And then 140,000 AFTO 45's submitted to AFPSL so the company can be reflected in the K-100
Mike
I spent a lot of years doing GE calibration. I am just wonder who you are? How have things been since the service got sold off by GE?
Looks like the first Tek SS job posting just made it's way here....... *giggles*
Whatever happened to Colleen Maxwell? Is she still out there? Do you still work at Davis Colleen?
Colleen is currently working as a Business Process Analyst at ARRIS, which is a broadband networking company here in Silicon Valley. I think she is still a recruiter, though. Her last post on Linkedin reads "Looking to hire three Techncial Sales Engrs to work in Mountain View, CA. IP sales with BGP, caching and CRM experience is ideal." So, she appears to be learning a whole new set of acronyms. I don't think she stayed more than a month or two after Davis was bought by Danaher.
Good for Colleen. I think she got out at just the right time. It will be interesting to see what happens once the name change goes into effect.
Why would you think anything would change after the name change? Everything has already been integrated and They have been switched over to the Danaher systems. I think everything that is going to change will have changed already.
I think they were letting Davis and Sypris run their labs just as they were before they purchased them and once the name change goes into affect, they will consolidate the labs and eliminate any duplication. Of course I could be way off target. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm not sure how Danaher works.
Not true they have done all kinds of stuff already. Kaizan Blitzes lab consolidations, staff cuts. I would not look for anything else to change after the name change.
Quote from: Bill the Cat link=topic=1511. msg14438#msg14438 date=1263185180
Davis Caibration, Sypris, Tektronix, DHI, Fluke, Hart, Raytek, Ircon, DataPaq, DNI, Biotek, Metron. I'm sure there's more to come. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keithley
Still not Agilent-Never will be either.
Quote from: KingOfChatalot link=topic=1511. msg15508#msg15508 date=1285777347
Quote from: Bill the Cat link=topic=1511. msg14438#msg14438 date=1263185180
Davis Caibration, Sypris, Tektronix, DHI, Fluke, Hart, Raytek, Ircon, DataPaq, DNI, Biotek, Metron. I'm sure there's more to come. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Keithley
Here the link to the Keithley acquisition - www. danaher. com/news/news_detail. asp?key=386
Another one bites the dust...
"All restaurants are Taco Bell...." :-D
Check out this article
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/09/29/danaher-still-hungry.aspx
Couple quotes worthy of mentioning from that article:
"Danaher is the 800-pound gorilla in this space, and it's eating all the other little monkeys."
Awesome, just awesome
and
"Would Danaher get away with buying Agilent, too, thereby consolidating an entire industry under one corporate umbrella?"
Not NO, but HELL NO!
IMHO, Danaher is picking and choosing profitable ventures to sink it's grubby gorilla paws into, and leaving others (such as Druck) without the resources and network to remain afloat......... I do see a big Danaher vs Agilent battle brewing though. Might be good for pricing!
If the big D tried to put in a bid for Agilent,HP would bid higher to get them back.
I could see Agilent selling off the Electronic Test & Measurement line, keeping the Life Sciences & Chemical Analysis line.