[3] In 1945 Ford founded Qualitrol Corporation in Fairport, New York, and began to provide the electric utility industry with protective devices and monitoring systems.

Within two years of Danaher Corporation's founding in 1984, it acquired twelve companies as part of a strategy to enter manufacturing.

At the end of 2007, Qualitrol started to collaborate with Quebec City-based Neoptix Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic temperature sensors.

[9] Initially, Qualitrol and Neoptix worked together on the integration of data collected simultaneously from traditional methods of temperature measurement and from optical direct hot-spot sensors.

[11] In 2010, Qualitrol acquired Mississauga, Ontario-based Iris Power, a supplier of on-line partial discharge testing of stator winding insulation in large motors and generators, from subsidiaries of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a Wichita-based multinational.

[12] At the end of 2011, Qualitrol began the expansion of its current production facility in Fairport, New York to 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2).