Industry Instrumentation Revenue $168 million (2010) Website omega.com Founded 1962 | Key people Joe Vorih, CEO Number of employees 700 Founder Betty Hollander Parent organization Spectris | |
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Products thermocouples
flow meters
pH meters
electric heaters
data collection
automation devices Headquarters Stamford, Connecticut, United States Profiles | ||
Omega engineering company ltd
OMEGA Engineering is an American instrumentation company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with its main factory in Bridgeport, New Jersey.
Contents
- Omega engineering company ltd
- Omega engineering cni3233 c24 temperature pid controller
- History
- Hacking
- Sale to Spectris
- References
It has sales offices in United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, China, Brazil, Singapore, Korea, Japan, and Mexico. Local websites are also available for customer convenience in France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, India, and Chile. OMEGA does business with the United States Navy, NASA and other industrial corporations.
OMEGA is now owned by British-owned conglomerate Spectris plc.
Omega engineering cni3233 c24 temperature pid controller
History
The company was founded in 1962 by Betty Hollander at her kitchen table while she was raising 4 kids. OMEGA began as a thermocouple manufacturer but slowly began to produce other types of instrumentation. Today, OMEGA produces devices that measure everything from temperature to pH.
Hacking
In 1996, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA and a network administrator within the company, was fired. Three weeks after he was fired, he unleashed a hacking "time bomb" within OMEGA's computer systems, deleting the software that ran all of OMEGA's manufacturing operations at its factory in Bridgeport, New Jersey. OMEGA spent nearly $2 million repairing the programs and lost nearly $10 million in revenue, resulting in 80 employee layoffs, though Lloyd's lawyer stated that OMEGA's losses were far smaller. Tim Lloyd was later convicted of computer sabotage and was sentenced to 41 months in Federal prison. The Tim Lloyd hacking case is considered one of the largest employee sabotage cases in United States history. The case also aired in a Forensic Files episode "Hack Attack", episode 39 of season 8.
Sale to Spectris
In April, 2011, Betty Hollander died, and the company was turned over to her husband Milton Hollander. Later that year, Milton Hollander sold OMEGA Engineering to British-based Spectris plc for $475 million.