OEM Manufacturing

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) build equipment, systems, tools, and devices sold to end-users in countless markets. From heavy manufacturing equipment to handheld medical devices, OEMs choose components for their systems that they trust to share their brand name. Buyers in the OEM industry rely upon Whitman Controls to deliver high-quality, reliable, and resilient instruments to include in their designs.

CHALLENGES

Few industries encompass as wide a range of technical requirements and buyer perspectives as the OEM space. Very distinct precision, lifespan, repeatability, cost, and durability requirements can be found between OEMs (and often even between a single OEM’s various product lines).

PURPOSE-DRIVEN SIMPLICITY

➤ Routine control applications do not need complex components – instead they need simple, dependable, standardized, purpose-driven functionality in a small form factor that will simply sense what it needs to sense. Especially for ‘set and forget’ equipment, simple components translate to less maintenance, lower operating cost, and fewer service calls.

UNIQUE APPLICATION CUSTOMIZATION

➤ Continuous improvement and technological evolution fuel the product development process, and these improvements often call for custom instrumentation solutions to match. Custom format, size, connection, voltage, unit range, circuitry, materials, and even aesthetics are all fair game when designing emergent systems.

PROCUREMENT RELIABILITY

➤ Especially for contract manufacturing and mission-critical applications, buyers have many more important things to do than to babysit their suppliers. Buying out an entire project involves extensive attention to finding, qualifying, price leveling, tendering, and contracting vendors as it is, and any unreliable supplier who cannot deliver presents significant risk to the project’s success and end-user satisfaction.

SOLUTIONS

Economy Class Product Suite

Whitman Controls offers a selection of economical, low-cost, in-stock sensor models strategically targeting your routine control applications. We have specific temperature, pressure, vacuum, and level sensors designed to be 'set and forget' workhorses where simplicity outweighs the need for bells and whistles.

Off-The-Shelf OEM Replacement Sensors

When searching to replace a failed instrument on an existing piece of equipment, buyers appreciate and are most confident when selecting a sensor that is a direct OEM replacement. Whitman has a long list of OEM replacement sensors for common applications, and can even help specify a direct replacement for new OEM applications not already on that list.

Extensive Application Engineering Support

Each year, we keep over half a billion workers safer and more productive with voice-enabled software, barcode scanners, mobile computers and protective equipment.

Full Product Customization and Value-Add

Our predefined product catalog of hundreds of instruments is only the tip of the iceberg here at Whitman Controls. We can fully customize virtually any of our product models to your exact needs. We're especially excited about emergent applications and highly technical challenges, and can help you with one-off R&D samples as well as high volume production runs of your World's First instrument design, plus custom wiring harnesses, adaptors, and kits.

OEM MANUFACTURING APPLICATION

PRODUCTS

Thousands of equipment manufacturers use Whitman parts to ensure the quality and safety of their applications. Spanning process, industrial, and OEM products – Whitman’s uses seem almost endless for the modern Design Engineer who is looking to automate safety shut-offs, pressure warnings, or trigger valve flow and regulation. Whitman has been a leader in high quality pressure and vacuum switches for over 40 years, giving you peace of mind when installing our parts for the lifetime of your application.

P117V Stainless Steel Vacuum Switch

The P117V Stainless Steel Miniature Vacuum switches are sharp, highly versatile devices that can be used in hundreds of OEM and routine mechanical applications. It is among our most popular switches given its durability and diverse set point options.

L20 Series Side Mounted CPVC Plastic Liquid Level Switch

The L20 Series Side Mounted CPVC Plastic Liquid Level Switches are typically used in water and potable water applications. The side mount provides added versatility, allowing the switch to be used as a high or low level indicator, and plastic body provides use up to 100 PSI.

TP Series Economical Stainless Steel Temperature Probe Switch

The Whitman Controls TP Series Economical Stainless Steel Temperature Probe Switches are a creep action thermostat/thermal protector switch providing almost no differential between opening and closing temperatures. The switch is designed for use up to 250˚F in 25˚F increments with special temperatures available for O.E.M. customers.

These switches are available wired Normally Closed or Normally Open on increasing temperature. The stainless steel wetted material affords use in any number of processes from medical to food processing, to oil baths and refrigeration. They are all made with 1/2″ NPT Male threads so that they can be screwed directly into almost any application.

OEM Replacement Parts

Whitman Controls is an OEM Switch Distributor offering a wide range of OEM replacement units for quick and easy solutions for your application. Contact our sales or engineering teams if you are looking for a more customized solution than these off the shelf offerings.