EVERETT — Fluke Corp. has acquired software provider eMaint Enterprises, a company that was named to Inc. magazine’s list of fastest-growing companies earlier this year.
eMaint Enterprises, which has 100 employees, is headquartered in New Jersey and has operations in Florida and Ireland. It makes computerized maintenance management software.
The product is used by 50,000 maintenance professionals in food processing, health care, fleet and transportation services and manufacturing and other industries.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fluke, based in Everett and owned by Fortive, makes handheld test tools and portable sensors used by service and maintenance technicians, electricians and plant engineers around the world.
eMaint’s maintenance management software combined with Fluke’s “brand strength and expertise will deliver new generations of connected technologies,” said Fluke’s President Wes Pringle in a statement.
“eMaint brings not only world-class software development but the sales and customer support to help maintenance professionals succeed,” Pringle said. “I couldn’t be more excited to welcome the eMaint team to the Fluke family.”
Bringing the companies together “unlocks tremendous potential,” said eMaint CEO and President Brian Samelson.
“Our customers will be able to combine the forces of eMaint’s powerful cloud-based (computerized maintenance management software) with Fluke’s world-renowned test tools and sensors, revolutionizing the maintenance and reliability experience for a new age of connected people, devices and systems,” Samelson said.
eMaint’s computerized maintenance management software coordinates all sorts of information in a workplace from inventory to schedules and makes it easily accessible.
But there are data silos in any work environment where information may be at a single machine or one area. That information often can be recorded by Fluke’s measurement tools and sensors.
The goal is to make it so that information collected by Fluke products can be synced with the eMaint software platform.
Merging with Fluke allows eMaint to work with a larger company that can allow its software to reach a global audience.
“We’ve been talking with them for a long time,” said Leah Friberg, Fluke’s director of industry relations. “This direction made the most sense to both sides.”
Fortive, which owns Fluke, splintered off from Danaher Corp. this summer and set up its corporate headquarters in Everett at the Fluke campus at 6920 Seaway Blvd.
Fortive CEO Jim Lico said at the time that he expects Fortive as a company expects to grow through mergers and acquisitions.
eMaint was founded by Samelson in 1986. The company has been recognized by Inc. Magazine for the past four years as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the U.S.
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