The group's principal activities are to provide hardware, software and engineering services to researchers, designers and manufacturers. The group's operations are organized into two business segments: the mechanical testing and simulation ('mt&s') segment and the factory automation ('fa') segment. The mechanical testing segment manufactures and markets systems for vehicle and component manufacturers to aid in the acceleration of design development work and to decrease the cost of product manufacturing. The systems also aid the customers in quality control and offers highly customized systems primarily for simulation and manufacturing. The factory automation segment manufactures and markets products for high performance industrial machine applications and displacement and liquid level sensors used to monitor and automate industrial processes. The group has operations in the United States, Europe and Asia.
