Milestones and Moving Ahead

Author:  Jack Champaigne, Editor, The Shot Peener
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
Doc ID:  2014014
Year of Publication:  2014
Abstract:  
January 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of Electronics Inc. (EI). I started EI in 1974 with the intent of supplying process controllers to Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control Division for their dust collectors. Upon the successful delivery of the process controllers, Wheelabrator Blast Cleaning Division asked me to furnish a media flow monitoring system and controllers for a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet project. The project had 16 abrasive wheels on a large monorail peen-forming machine. Looking for more opportunities, I then developed a media flow valve for air-type peening machines that I named the MagnaValve®. It was so well received that it became the impetus for a complete product line for the shot peening and abrasive blast cleaning markets.