Siemens AG is a technology company, which engages in the areas of automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, infrastructure for buildings and energy systems, mobility solutions for rail transport, and medical technology and digital healthcare services. It operates through the following segments: Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, Mobility, Siemens Healthineers, and Siemens Financial Services. The Digital Industries segment offers a product portfolio and system solutions for automation used in discrete and process industries. The Smart Infrastructure segment includes products, systems, solutions, services and software to support a transition from fossil to renewable energy sources. The Mobility segment combines all Siemens businesses in the area of passenger and freight transportation. The Siemens Healthineers segment develops, manufactures, and sells diagnostic and therapeutic products, and services to healthcare providers. The Siemens Financial Services segment focuses on financing solutions for Siemens’ customers as well as other companies in the form of debt and equity investments. The company was founded by Johann Georg Halske and Werner von Siemens on October 12, 1847 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Schneider Electric USA, Inc., part of Schneider Electric SE, is an American company located in Salisbury, NC. The firm manufactures switchgear and switchboard apparatus.\nThe company says this about itself: Schneider's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

SGCC was founded on Dec. 29th, 2002 as a pilot state-owned corporation by the State Council. As a backbone state-owned enterprise that may affect national energy safety and economic lifelines, SGCC's core business is to build and operate power grids and provides secure and reliable power supply for the development of the society. With a registered capital of RMB 200 billion yuan and service area covering 26 provinces,autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government which equals to 88% of the national territory. SGCC carries out the president responsibility system. The president is the legal corporate representative of SGCC. By the end of 2005, SGCC accumulated a total asset of RMB1176.7 billion yuan with a debt-asset ratio of 61.96%, and possessed 195,899 km of 220kV and above transmission lines with a transforming capacity up to 616.64 GVA. SGCC has 1.502 million employees and serves 128 million customers. In 2005, SGCC sold electric power up to 1464.6 TWh and achieved an operation income of RMB 721.4 billion yuan with a net profit of RMB14.4 billion yuan profit & tax of RMB 60.4 billion yuan. SGCC was ranked the 40th in the Fortune Global 500 in 2005.

PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a provider of yield improvement technologies and services for the IC manufacturing process life cycle. PDF Solutions offers solutions that are designed to enable clients to lower costs of IC design and manufacture, enhance time to market, and improve profitability by addressing design and manufacturing interactions from product design to initial process ramps to mature manufacturing operations. PDF Solutions' Characterization Vehicle® (CV®) test chips provide the core modeling capabilities, and are used by more leading manufacturers than any other test chips in the industry. PDF Solutions' industry leading yield management system software, dataPOWER®, and fault detection and classification software, mæstria®, enhance yield improvement and production control activities at leading fabs around the world. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., PDF Solutions operates worldwide with additional offices in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. For the company's latest news and information

CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world. The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). It is a public body established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future. The CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. The total CEA workforce consisted of 15 838 employees. Across the whole of the CEA (including both civilian and military research), there were 1556 PhD students and 293 post-docs. The CEA is based in ten research centers in France, each specializing in specific fields. The laboratories are located in the Paris region, the Rhône-Alpes, the Rhône valley, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Aquitaine, Central France and Burgundy. The CEA benefits from the strong regional identities of these laboratories and the partnerships forged with other research centers, local authorities and universities.

State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Co. (doing business as SMEPC) is a company headquartered in Shanghai, China and ultimately controlled by the Government of China. The firm engages in electricity distribution.

East China Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd., established on 1991-01-09, Business scope includes general items:Research and development of online energy measurement technology;Technical Services,technology development,technical consulting,Technology Exchange,technology transfer,Technology Promotion;software development;Research and development of high-efficiency and energy-saving technologies in the power industry;Emerging energy technology research and development;Research and development of online energy monitoring technology;Research and development of energy recovery system;Internet of things technology research and development;Internet of Things Technology Services;Non-residential real estate leases;Machinery and Equipment Leasing;Photovoltaic power generation equipment rental;Science popularization service;Conference and Exhibition Services;advertising(non-broadcasting station,television station,Newspaper Publishing Unit);Sales of intelligent power transmission and distribution and control equipment,Electrical Equipment,software.(Except for projects subject to approval by law,Carry out business activities independently in accordance with the law with a business license) licensed items:Power facility installation,undertook,Take the test;Various construction activities;Certification Services.(Items subject to approval by law,Business activities can only be carried out after approval by relevant departments,The specific business items are subject to the approval documents or licenses of relevant departments)

Robert Bosch GmbH engages in the development of the engineering and electronics sector. Its business sectors include; mobility solutions, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in 1886 and is headquartered in Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany.

Tokyo Electron Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of semiconductor production equipment and industrial electronics products for flat panel display manufacturing equipment. It operates through the following segments: Semiconductor Production Equipment (SPE), Flat Panel Display (FPD) Production Equipment and Others. The SPE segment handles the development, manufacture, service, and distribution of coaters/developers, plasma etch systems, thermal processing systems, single wafer deposition systems, cleaning systems, wafer probers, and other semiconductor production equipment. The FPD Production Equipment segment manufactures coater/developer for manufacturing flat panel display and Plasma etching/ashing device. The Others segment includes logistics, facilities management, and insurance businesses. The company was founded in November 11, 1963 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) designs, manufactures, and supports products and services ranging from generator and transmission protection to distribution automation and control systems. Founded in 1982 by Edmund O. Schweitzer III, SEL shipped the world's first digital protective relay. Presently, the company designs and manufactures embedded system products for protecting, monitoring, control, and metering of electric power systems.

Manufactures protection and measurement systems in the area of secondary testing

Teradyne, Inc. engages in the development and sale of automatic test systems. It operates through the following segments: Semiconductor Test, Industrial Automation, System Test, Wireless Test, and Corporate and Other. The Semiconductor Test segment designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor test products and services. The Industrial Automation segment includes the operations related to design and manufacture of collaborative robotic arms, mobile robots, and advanced robotic control software. The System Test segment markets products and services for defense instrumentation test, storage test, and circuit-board test. The Wireless Test segment is composed of wireless test products and services. The company was founded by Alexander V. d'Arbeloff and Nicholas DeWolf in 1960 and is headquartered in North Reading, MA.

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Micronics Japan Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductor testing unit and liquid crystal display (LCD) testing system. It operates through the Probe Card and Testing Equipment (TE) segments. The Probe Card segment offers semiconductor measuring instruments. The TE segment includes LCD inspection and semiconductor testing equipment. The company was founded on November 2, 1970 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Aluminium Pechiney engages in the manufacturing and distribution of ores and metals. The company is headquartered in Voreppe, France.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. provides electricity services. It distributes and transports natural gas in the areas of Central, Northern, and Eastern New York. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Syracuse, NY.

Omron was established by Kazuma Tateishi (立石一真) in 1933 (as the Tateisi Electric Manufacturing Company) and incorporated in 1948. The company originated in an area of Kyoto called "Omuro (御室)", from which the name "OMRON" was derived. Prior to 1990, the corporation was known as Omron Tateisi Electronics. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the company motto was: "To the machine the work of machines, to man the thrill of further creation". Omron's primary business is the manufacture and sale of automation components, equipment, and systems, but it is generally known for medical equipment such as digital thermometers, blood pressure monitors, and nebulizers. Omron developed the world's first electronic ticket gate, which was named an IEEE Milestone in 2007, and was one of the first manufacturers of automated teller machines (ATM) with magnetic stripe card readers. Omron Oilfield & Marine is a provider of AC and DC drive systems and custom control systems for oil and gas and related industries.

Lam Research Corporation (Lam Research) is a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry. Lam Research designs, manufactures, markets, refurbish, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The Company’s etch and clean technologies enable customers to build integrated circuits. Its etch systems shape the microscopic conductive and dielectric layers into circuits that define a chip’s final use and function. Its Customer Support Business Group (CSBG) provides products and services to maximize installed equipment performance and operational efficiency. Its customer base includes semiconductor memory, foundry, and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that make DRAM, NAND, and logic devices for these products.

Endress+Hauser, Inc. manufactures and sells flow, pressure and temperature measurement instruments. The company is headquartered in Greenwood, IN.