General Electric Fanuc, a joint partnership between FANUC LTD. of Japan and General Electric, is a business unit of General Electric Industrial Systems. GE Fanuc is headquartered north of Charlottesville, Virginia on Rt. 29 a few miles north of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. GE Fanuc designs and manufactures industrial control and automation products including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), relay modules, and development software for ladder logic.

PLCs are widely used in factories and plants to coordinate the movement and activity of components in an assembly line with information taken from various sensors. PLCs also see use in controlling the movement of large structures such as sports arenas with moveable roofs.

GE Fanuc is generally considered to be a third-place player in the global PLC market, the top two being Allen-Bradley (now a brand of Rockwell Automation) and Siemens AG.

External Link

• GE Fanuc's web site
• General Electric's web site