Roper Technologies

Roper Industries, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: ROP S&P 500 Component
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	Late 1800s
Headquarters	Sarasota, Florida, United States
Key people	Brian Jellison, CEO
Products	Industrial Technology, Radio Frequency (RF) Technology, Scientific and Industrial Imaging, Energy Systems and Controls, and Instrumentation
Revenue	US$ 3,238.128 million (2013) [1] US$ 2,993.489 million (2012) [1]
Operating income	US$ 842.361 million (2013) [1] US$ 757.587 million (2012) [1]
Net income	US$ 538.293 million (2013) [1] US$ 483.36 million (2012) [1]
Total assets	US$ 8,184.981 million (2013) [2] US$ 7,071.104 million (2012) [1]
Total equity	US$ 4,213.05 million (2013) [2] US$ 3,687.726 million (2012) [1]
Website	http://www.ropertech.com

DAP Technologies

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	AIDC
Founded	1979
Headquarters	Tempe-AZ, Atlanta-GA, Quebec, UK
Key people	General Manager: David Molesworth
Products	Rugged Mobile Computers
Revenue	Private
Number of employees	150
Website	www.daptech.com

Roper Technologies, Inc. (formerly, Roper Industries, Inc.)^[3] is an American diversified industrial company that produces engineered products for global niche markets. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida.

Roper provides a wide range of products and services to customers in over 100 countries. The company has four main business lines: Industrial Technology, Radio Frequency (RF) Technology, Scientific and Industrial Imaging, and Energy Systems and Controls. Roper joined the Russell 1000 index in 2004, and has annual revenues of more than US$1.7 billion, as of 2006.

George D. Roper founded the company in the late 19th century, primarily as a manufacturer of home appliances, pumps and other industrial products. Roper initiated a corporate acquisition program, supported by an initial public offering, in 1992.

In 2001, Brian Jellison, a former executive of General Electric and Ingersoll-Rand, joined Roper as Chief Executive Officer. The previous holding company business strategy has been replaced with an operating company model. Since 2001 Roper has completed acquisitions accounting for over half its revenues, establishing the company in global growth markets, such as radio frequency identification(RFID) and water.

Roper acquired Sunquest Information Systems, a maker of diagnostic and laboratory software for $1.42 billion in cash in 2012.^[4]

Subsidiaries

DAP Technologies

DAP Technologies manufactures rugged mobile computers, including portable data terminals, and tablet computers. DAP's computers are designed for harsh environments, so they can be used in logistics operations, transportation, warehouses, field service, utilities, law enforcement, and the energy industry, as well as other applications.

DAP distributes its computers in more than 60 countries, and operates subsidiaries in Paris, France, Abingdon, England and Tokyo, Japan. The company employs 150 people.

Media Cybernetics

Media Cybernetics is a company in Maryland, United States, founded in 1981, that produces image processing software used worldwide for industrial, scientific, medical and biotechnology applications. In recent years, Media Cybernetics acquired the assets of Definitive Imaging, QED Imaging and AutoQuant Imaging.

Photometrics

Photometrics designs and manufactures scientific imaging equipment for life science and OEM applications.

Princeton Instruments

Princeton Instruments, Princeton Instruments, manufactures scientific imaging equipment, optical coatings, optical cameras, CCD and EMCCD cameras, spectroscopy instrumentation and electronic sub-assemblies. Princeton Instruments is divided into these application-specific groups: Imaging Group provides cameras for applications that include Astronomy, BEC, Combustion, PIV, Single Molecule, Surface and Material Analysis, PSP, and Nanotechnology. Spectroscopy Group provides spectrometers, cameras and systems for Raman, LIBS, NIR, Absorption, Fluorescence, and Luminescence. X-Ray Group manufactures cameras for EUV, Lithography, XRS, Plasma, Diffraction, Microscopy, and Tomography applications. Industrial Group provides MEGAPLUS cameras for Semiconductor, Web Inspection, Document and Film Capture, Digital Radiography, and Ophthalmology. Acton Optics & Coatings provides optical components for Medical, Semiconductor, Material Processing, Analytical Instrumentation, Aerospace and Defense applications. The company has based in Trenton, New Jersey and Acton, Massachusetts.

QImaging

QImaging designs and manufactures scientific CCD, EMCCD and sCMOS cameras for life science, industrial and OEM applications.

Roper Pump Co.

Roper Pump Co. is part of the founding company from which Roper Industries began. George D. Roper began the company by founding the Roper legacy by entering into part ownership in the Van Wie Gas Stove Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The Van Wie plant moved to Rockford Illinois and passed into trusteeship in the early 1890s. George D. Roper became sole owner of the Van Wie Gas Stove company after the company's debts were paid off on September 1, 1894. A fire completey destroyed the facilities ten days later. The factory was rebuilt and named the Eclipse Gas Stove Company, and later expanded to include the Trahern Pump Company in 1906. The Trahern Pump Company began in 1857, which is the basis of Roper Pumps Co. now located in Commerce, Georgia USA.

Roper Pump Co. mainly manufactures downhole progressing cavity pumps used in oil drilling, flow dividers used in power generation, and gear pumps used on tanker rail cars and tanker trucks. Roper Pump Co. is a leading US producer of small diameter progressing cavity pumps, flow dividers, as well as gear pumps.

TransCore and DAT Solutions

TransCore is a subsidiary of Roper Industries, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that specializes in Intelligent Transportation Systems. TransCore was acquired by Roper Industries in 2004.

Roper has divided TransCore into two units: TransCore and DAT Solutions. TransCore manages RFID transponders and readers. In this family, their original product line reflects their acquisition of Amtech Systems in 2000 (also a supplier of production and automation systems for the manufacture of solar cells). These transponders come in a plastic case, for either windshield or external mounting. Their newer line is the eGo windshield sticker transponder system, which is a low-cost, batteryless system designed for one-time attachment to a windshield. These transponders are found in electronic toll collection, fleet tracking, payment, parking and access control applications.

In addition, TransCore has a substantial services business, designing, building and operating ITS facilities. This may be a complete electronic toll collection system, with design, build, transponders, equipment, customer service and violation enforcement, or any part of it. For example, TransCore operates the ETC systems for several E-ZPass members, even though E-ZPass has an exclusive contract with another manufacturer for transponders.

The Good to Go system in Washington state is an eGo transponder system.

DAT Solutions

DAT Solutions offers freight load boards products for owner-operators, carriers, brokers, shippers, and 3PLs. The underlying framework is the DAT Network, the first electronic freight posting service, acquired in 2001 from the Jubitz Corporation. DAT Solutions began as Dial-a-truck (DAT), a load board operated at the Jubitz Truck Stop. It evolved to become the original and largest internet load board, a matchmaking service for 100 million freight loads and trucks per year. DAT Solutions offers several load board products including: DAT Power, DAT Express and TruckersEdge. Other products, such as DAT RateView, DAT CarrierWatch and DAT Keypoint are industry-leading offerings that help transportation professionals create greater efficiencies in their business.

DAT Solutions also offers Tracking & Communications satellite, for truck tracking, trailer tracking, and temperature and cargo monitoring systems for commercial and private fleets. They use GPS and GEOS technology to transmit data from the truck or trailer to the dispatch center.

The CBORD Group, Inc.

Roper acquired The CBORD Group, Inc. on February 21, 2008. CBORD was founded in Ithaca, NY in 1975. CBORD products are used in food services, catering, campus ID privilege control, and other industries. The products include CS Gold, Odyssey PCS, Foodservice Suite, Webfood, Nutrition Service Suite, Room Service Choice, NetMenu, NetNutrition, C-Store, EventMaster, and GeriMenu. CBORD has offices in Ithaca, NY; Canton, OH; Waco, TX; Cypress, CA; and Sydney, Australia.

Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC)

Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC) has specialized in turbomachinery controls for over 35 years. CCC serves customers in a broad range of industries including oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical, refineries, LNG, pipelines, steel mills, pharmaceutical, machine-building, and power generation facilities. CCC also constructs new turbomachinery controls and retrofit existing equipment.

iTradeNetwork

A provider of supply chain management and intelligence solutions to the food industry with offices both in the USA and UK.

Neptune Technology Group, Inc

Manufacturer of water meters, meter-reading equipment, software, and related equipment, based in Tallassee, Alabama.

References

External links

• Roper Technologies corporate web site

• • Business data for Roper Technologies: Google Finance
  • Yahoo! Finance
  • Reuters
  • SEC filings
• Neptune Technology Group corporate web site