LEROY SOMER powers windmill farms around the world
 
When industry calls for environmentally friendly power, Emerson Industrial Automation leads the way, generating turbine power from the wind. Emerson is supplying the worlds leading windmill manufacturer with more than 3,000 wind turbine generators helping deliver electricity to the national grid for 28 different countries, including the United States, Germany, Spain, Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom. These high-performance, flexible, and easily maintained wind systems provide power for as little as pennies to the kilowatt of electricity. This superior overall design is expected to be generating as much as 70,000 megawatts of power worldwide by 2010, with 10 to 20 percent of that supply powering offshore locations.
Emerson Industrial Automation continues to outpace its competitors with innovative technologies that perform at the source the manufacturing line and deliver quality to the final product. Whether its a plastic-joined toy or a semiconductor wafer, Emerson technology enables manufacturers to produce smarter, faster and better. For example, the Control Techniques division has launched the Unidrive SP, a revolutionary, high-performance drive package that is setting the standard for accuracy and flexibility in tighttolerance manufacturing, process control, and machine control applications. From on-the-line to online, Emerson Industrial Automation also is expanding levels of customer reach by integrating new e-business strategies. Now, more than a third of all Emerson Power Transmission orders are entered online, and Web-enabled customer solution centers distribute proactive, targeted e-mailing and promotions.