In January 2009, Elma Electronic Inc. acquired ACT/Technico, which is now part of Elma's Systems division, where it will continue to maintain the same relationships with our partners and provide the same quality embedded, open standards-based products and sub-system integration services to customers. These customers lie in various industries such as defense and homeland security, communications, semiconductor equipment, transportation, medical imaging.

Elma Electronic is a global company that designs and manufactures solutions in electronics packaging. Founded in 1986, Elma Electronic Inc. is an industry innovator in the design and manufacture of electronic enclosures and passive electronic components. Elma USA has achieved a leading position in the VME/ VME64x, CompactPCI/2.16, VXS/VPX, VXI/PXI, AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA and rugged COTS packaging markets.

The acquisition enhances Elma's system integration capabilities and adds an extensive product and partner portfolio to the company's already wide offering.  Both companies are renowned in the market for their VITA-based, PICMG-based and other standards-based products and solutions.  Combining Elma's system platform packaging expertise with ACT/Technico's embedded integration skills provides a formidable range of capabilities from components to fully integrated sub-systems.  

Elma Systems remains firmly committed to the established relationships with premier suppliers of board level products, chassis, and software. Most of these relationships are long-standing, several close to 20 years. They help us provide the right solution for every project through creative and flexible teaming. Our customers benefit from our partner relationships in multiple ways:

• Reduce paperwork and costs by having a single procurement source for multiple vendors
• Flexibility to choose only the best in class suppliers needed for the project
• Reduce or eliminate inventory carrying costs
• Better visibility in EOL product obsolescence
• Increased confidence in lifecycle management

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AcQ Inducom is an embedded systems hardware and software solutions provider specialized in safety critical applications. Active in the Aerospace, Industrial and Transportation market, the company is an independently certified ISO 9001:2000 compliant organization. AcQ defines its QA program in a Quality Management System (QMS). AcQ Inducom is currently preparing for certification to the AS9100 standard. AcQ Inducom's measures of success for quality are customer satisfaction, and in striving to continually improve the procedures and processes in their QMS.

As a leader in backplanes, Elma Bustronic Corp., delivers high-performance products that are unsurpassed in design and quality. Since 1989, the company has designed thousands of standard, modified and custom in a wide range of industries. Advanced simulation and rigorous testing is used to perfect each design, ensuring the signal integrity and performance of every backplane Elma Bustronic is headquartered in Fremont, California.

Concurrent Technologies is an international ISO 9001 company, specializing in the design and manufacture of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom designed industrial computer boards for real-time embedded applications. In addition to its original Multibus II product line the company has a wide range of high performance, Intel and PowerPC based VME and CompactPCI products, which are complemented by an extensive offering of PMC products. The company offers support for many of today's leading industry standard operating systems.

 Dot21 Real Time Systems was founded to fulfill a need for publish / subscribe middleware in the embedded systems market. Incorporated in 1999 and backed by a team of engineers and computer scientists, Dot21 has licensing rights to the middleware used in several Navy programs including Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), Ship Self-Defense (SSDS), and the SPS-48 ADP. They have worked extensively developing device drivers for PMC, PCI, VMEbus, and Compact PCI. Operating systems include VxWorks, Solaris, and Linux. Architecture expertise includes Motorola 68K, PowerPC, and Intel. Dot21 is also a GSA Contractor.

Dynatem manufactures and integrates systems based on 3U and 6U VMEbus and CompactPCI modules. Custom stand-alone embedded designs are also provided. Dynatem board designs include single-board computers based upon the Motorola and Intel architectures, communication boards, graphic controllers, and various I/O interface cards.

Embedded Computing, Emerson Network Power

Through its Embedded Computing business, Emerson Network Power enables original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators to develop better products quickly, cost-effectively and with less risk. The business was strengthened by the acquisition of Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing group, which has over 25 years experience in the field.

Emerson Network Power is now positioned as a recognized leading provider of products and services based on open standards such as ATCA®, MicroTCA™, CompactPCI, VMEbus and OpenSAF. Working with Emerson enables OEMs to shift more of their efforts to the creation of value-add features that create competitive advantage and build market share.

Interface Concept offers a wide range of high performance Ethernet switches, single board computers (SBCs) and intelligent communications processors to defense, medical and transportation markets. This comprehensive range of COTS networking and processing products includes Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and now 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, PowerPC- and PowerQUICC-based intelligent Ethernet interface controllers; and synchronous / asynchronous serial communication platforms. The product range is available on PrPMC / PMC, VME, VPX and CompactPCI platforms; support for several operating systems includes VxWorks, Integrity, QNX and Linux.

Optima EPS Corp, an Elma company, is a designer and manufacturer of electronic cabinets, server racks, security consoles and complete enclosure systems. Optima was formed 1962 by Scientific Atlanta and joined the Elma Group in 2004. The company tailors solutions to individual applications ensuring fast and cost-effective results. The company operates from a 110,000 square foot sales, engineering and manufacturing facility in Atlanta, Georgia.

Quantum3D is a leading developer and manufacturer of

real-time visual simulation and computing systems.

Quantum3D delivers the hardware and software necessary

to provide customers with a number of complete solutions: real-time visual simulation for fast-jet, helicopter, refueling, and ground vehicles; synthetic environment creation for out-the-window or sensor-based needs; field-embedded computing for avionics, vehicle, and man-wearable applications; and hardware-in-the-loop solutions.

Quantum3D's focus is on delivering Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) and open architecture solutions to deliver “affordable reality” to military and civilian customers. They combine COTS based technologies, such as NVIDIA© graphics cards, Intel© microprocessors, and operating systems from Microsoft© (Windows©), Redhat© Linux, and Wind River© (VxWorks©), with unique, value-added image generator (IG) technologies, software, and services to deliver industry-specific visual computing solutions.

SYSGO provides operating system technology, middleware, and software services for the real-time and embedded market. A differentiating capability of SYSGO is the Safe and Secure Virtualization platform PikeOS, a paravirtualization operating system which is built on a small, fast, and safe micro kernel. It supports the co-existence of independent operating system personalities on a single platform, including ELinOS, SYSGO’s embedded Linux distribution.

SYSGO supports international customers with services for embedded Linux, real-time capabilities and certification for safety-critical applications. Markets include Aerospace & Defense, Industrial Automation, Automotive, Transportation and Network Infrastructure

Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). We enable companies to develop, run, and manage device software better, faster, at lower cost, and more reliably. Wind River technology is currently deployed in more than 300 million devices worldwide by industry leaders like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Motorola, NASA, and Mitsubishi. Wind River Professional Services enable leading electronics vendors like Philips, Siemens, Nortel, and Samsung to design, develop, and deploy innovative products on or ahead of schedule, at or below budget.

DSO is a holistic, enterprise-wide solution to the challenges generated by increasing complexity in developing device software. Key tenets of the DSO solution include standardization of technologies and processes across projects, teams, and sites, and the embrace of open standards to provide companies with the broadest possible choice of tools, technologies, and architectures. Wind River's DSO solution is built on a choice of operating systems, an ecosystem of validated and integrated partner technologies, and expert services and support available around the world, around the clock.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. Wind River became a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel(R) Corporation on July 17, 2009.