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Fluke was bought by the Danaher Corporation in 1998 who brought its Danaher Business System approach to Fluke, changing company practices from line to cell manufacturing and embracing kaizen, the discipline of continuous incremental improvements to eliminate waste.
Today Fluke is a billion dollar company and its markets range from industrial and commercial facility operations to precision measurement and calibration (Fluke Calibration), data communications (Fluke Networks), to medical equipment (Fluke Biomedical). Newer contributions by Fluke to test and measurement technology in the last 10 years include thermal imaging (working with Raytek and then ISI) and remote wireless displays.
Fluke developed thermal measurement engineering expertise and successfully developed thermal imagers that were easier to use than the expert models and drove the market price downward from $20,000 to below $5000.
Fluke introduced the industry’s first wireless multimeter with a detachable display in 2009. The base and display module of the Fluke 233 multimeter communicate over a 2.4 GHz ISM-band radio link when the display module is separated from the base. Having a wireless meter is primarily important when the object under test is a distance away from the controls, requiring two people to conduct the test, a lot of running, or a wireless meter.
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