Quality Vision International

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Our History

Our company, founded in 1945, is known today as Quality Vision International®.

As U.S. industry returned to peacetime production, the Universal Engraving and Colorplate Company of Cleveland, Ohio, started a new division to make charts and fixtures for optical comparators. This company was known as Engineers Specialties Division (ESD), and was located in Buffalo, New York. ESD decided to start an Engineering center in nearby Rochester, and hired a young engineer who had just completed his service with the Rochester Ordnance division – Edward C. Polidor.

As the years progressed, ESD was reorganized into two divisions – Optical Gaging Products and Projection Gages, Inc. The two divisions operated together under ESD control until being acquired by Ex-Cell-O Corporation in 1959.

In 1955, Ed Polidor left ESD and founded a new company called Automation Gages, which produced a number of innovative optical and mechanical systems for inspection and measurement. In the 1960s, AG expanded by developing more elaborate electronics and controls to automate their inspection systems. In 1969, AG acquired General Measurement Research (GMR) of Berkeley, California – pioneers in digital position sensing and readouts. Between 1970 and 1975, AG acquired OGP, Ex-Cell-O, Visual Inspection Products and Bendix Contour Projector Corp, including their popular Bausch & Lomb line of optical comparators. Eventually, the company consolidated all these brands into one operation which became known as Optical Gaging Products.

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