| As a subsidiary of US based SPX Corporation, we at LDS Test and Measurement are part of a global player with more than 15,000 employees worldwide. Our Test and Measurement segment is one of four strategic growth platforms of SPX with annual sales of over 1 billion dollars. Being part of such a growth platform provides us with the ability to invest in new products and technologies and to grow within our target markets: Aerospace and Defence, Automotive and Transportation, Machinery and Production and Electrical and Electronics. In the past, LDS was focused on test systems - a business that grew significantly during the last decade. Today, many thousands of our electrodynamic shaker systems are in use around the globe - with some of the largest multi-shaker systems amongst them. The acquisition of Gould Instruments, Nicolet Technologies and Dactron aimed at the 'M' of the T&M world and enabled us to provide a much broader spectrum of solutions to our traditional customer base. The close interactions between our 'test' and 'measurement' solutions - the ability to bring real data from the field to the test bench - make us a fully integrated product validation company. Our clients today are not only very concerned to design products that comply with global safety regulations - but also to provide low cost of ownership for an extended, care-free life cycle. This is where our expertise comes into play - now and for the decades ahead. |