Emerson Network Power is a subdivision of Emerson Electric Company. Emerson Network Power is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and was formed in 2000. Emerson Network Power provides critical infrastructures for data centers, communications networks, healthcare, and industrial facilities. Some of the products they provide are power supplies, embedded computing solutions, precision cooling, racks/enclosures, power transfer switches and connectivity technologies. The company has a network that extends to over 150 countries and has over 2,000 representatives strategically placed worldwide that are ready to assist it customers. The brands and businesses that Emerson Network Power has are Aperture, ASCO, Avocent, Chloride, Electrical Reliability Services, Energy Systems, Firetrol, High Voltage Maintenance, Islatrol, Knurr, Liebert, NetSure, and Surge Protection. For the fiscal year 2012, Emerson Network Power had sales of 6.4 billion dollars and employed approximately 50,000 people. The company has approximately 3,669 engineering and development engineers who are constantly developing new products. Emerson Network Power has over about 2,218 active patents. The latest acquisition the company made was in 2012, acquiring Avtron Loadbank. Avtron’s product line are used in a variety of applications such as factory testing of engine generators, UPS system testing, battery system testing and etc.