36 | The Fisher Story
1962 Design U
Vee-Ball ® throttling
ball valve
introduced.
Tokico, the
manufacturer
licensed to
manufacture
Fisher products
in Japan, puts
out a magazine
similar to The
Governor.
Sales meeting held
at the Mountain
Shadows Resort in
Scottsdale, Arizona.
First attempt by the
United Auto
Workers (UAW) to
organize the
Marshalltown
factory.
1963 Designs DS (2-way) and Design DY (3-way) valve
bodies introduced.
Automated data collection system installed in the
Marshalltown plant. Data processing department is
organized to mechanize cost accounting, inventory
control and order entry procedures.
First computer is purchased in Marshalltown; it stores
16,000 bits of information.
Tie tac is made available to sales
agents and personnel; it is a
miniature of the gold-plated serial
number 3,000,000 control valve.
Fisher “Firsts” In
Technology
Y
ou don’t get to be a world
leader overnight. You do it by
maintaining a culture of
continuous improvement and a
commitment to finding a better
way of doing things. Fisher
Governor Company founders
established the culture and all
subsequent managers have
followed it.
As a result, Fisher products
lead the industry for innovation
and quality. Fisher engineers
were the:
• First to develop authoritative
capacity and sizing data charts.
• First to use rotary valves (ball
and butterfly valves) as process
control valves.
• First to introduce techniques
of control valve diagnostics
using the FlowScanner ™ system.
• First to develop a house
service gas regulator (the S402)
using engineered resins.
• First to develop aerodynamic
and hydrodynamic noise
prediction techniques and
procedures.
• First to incorporate scanning
electron microscopy in control
valve evaluations.
• First to develop a mobile,
non-intrusive, hand-held level
detecting device.