Rockwell International was a major American
manufacturing
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conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. Rockwell International's predecessor was
Rockwell Manufacturing Company, founded in 1919 by
Willard Rockwell
Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. (March 31, 1888 – October 16, 1978) was an American engineer businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He created and directed a number of major corporations ...
. In 1968, Rockwell Manufacturing Company included 7 operating divisions manufacturing industrial valves, German 2-cycle motors, power tools, gas and water meters. In 1973, it was combined with the aerospace products and renamed Rockwell International. At its peak, Rockwell International was No. 27 on the
Fortune 500 list, with assets of over $8 billion, sales of $27 billion and 115,000 employees.
History
Rockwell Manufacturing Company
Boston-born
Willard Rockwell
Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. (March 31, 1888 – October 16, 1978) was an American engineer businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He created and directed a number of major corporations ...
(1888–1978) made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new
bearing system for truck
axles in 1919. He merged his
Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based operation with the Timken-Detroit Axle Company (current Meritor Inc.) in 1928,
rising to become chairman of its board in 1940.
In 1945, Rockwell Manufacturing Company acquired
Delta Machinery and renamed it the Delta Power Tool Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Company and continued to manufacture in Milwaukee. In 1966, Rockwell invented the world's first power miter saw. In 1981, Rockwell's power tool group was acquired by
Pentair
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and re-branded Delta Machinery. Pentair's Tools group was acquired by
Black & Decker
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in 2005. Since 1994, Rockwell power tools are now manufactured by
Positec Tool Corporation
In 1956, Rockwell Manufacturing Co. bought
Walker-Turner from
Kearney and Trecker. In 1957, Walker-Turner operations were closed down in
Plainfield, New Jersey
Plainfield is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, known by its nickname as "The Queen City." and moved to
Bellefontaine, Ohio
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and
Tupelo, Mississippi.
Timken-Detroit merged in 1953 with the Standard Steel Spring Company, forming the Rockwell Spring and Axle Company.
After various mergers with automotive suppliers, it comprised about 10 to 20 factories in the
Upper Midwestern U.S. and southern
Ontario
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, and in 1958 renamed itself Rockwell-Standard Corporation.
Pittsburgh
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-based Rockwell Standard then acquired and merged with
Los Angeles
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-based
North American Aviation to form
North American Rockwell
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in September 1967.
It then purchased Miehle-Goss-Dexter, the largest supplier of
printing press
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es, and in 1973, acquired
Collins Radio, a major
avionics supplier.
In 1968,
Sterling Faucet Company was bought by Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and it became a subsidiary of the company.
1968–1974
Michael W. Hodges (who had also served as Corporate Director Manufacturing and later as CEO and 'Geschäftsführer' (Managing Director) of the German-based Engine Division) joined Rockwell Manufacturing Company in 1968 as Corporate Director Quality Assurance. He was appointed member of the Board of Directors of Rockwell GMBH Germany and Dikkers Valve Products LLC Netherlands. Prior to Rockwell, Michael Hodges was a physicist with NASA and aerospace management with Martin-Marietta Corp. in Orlando, Fl.
During Hodges' seven years with Rockwell there were approximately 90,000 employees in seven divisions: the Valve Division with products for the gas and oil industry with plants located in Barberton, Ohio, Raleigh, NC, Sulfur Springs, Tx., and Kearney, Nebraska, the Gas Products Division of meters and regulators in Dubois, Pa, the Municipal Water Meter Division in Uniontown, Pa., the Power Tool Division in Syracuse, NY, Jackson, Tenn., Tupelo, Miss., and Columbia, SC, the Transportation Division in Atchison, Kansas with a large steel foundry of products for the automotive, railway and rapid-transit industry, the Sterling Faucet Division in Reedsville, WV, and the Engine Division in Pinneberg, Germany (previously
ILO-Motorenwerke, founded 1911 and acquired by Rockwell in 1959), manufacturing 2-cycle gas-driven motors for developing nation products including motor tillers, water pumps, sprayers, cement mixers, tampers and mopeds as well as snowmobile- and all-terrain vehicle engines for North America.
A significantly different direction was planned starting in 1973 away from the business model developed since 1945 by the founder Willard Rockwell (1888–1978). The founder's son, Willard Rockwell Jr., appeared taking the company in a new direction, replacing the founder's model of strong medium-size manufacturing companies with diverse industrial products with strong industrial engineering and quality control in multiple locations – to a new model leveraging assets of the profitable seven manufacturing divisions of Rockwell Manufacturing Company into a new business model of a dominant government-serving (NASA, Defense Dept.) aerospace company, named Rockwell International, which included North American Aviation, of products such as the Space Shuttle. By the end of the 1980s, Rockwell International began to sell-off its prior industrial product manufacturing divisions, starting with the Valve Division, leading to the sale of all divisions and the end of the Rockwell names > Rockwell Manufacturing Company, North American Rockwell, and Rockwell International
In 1973, North American Rockwell merged with Rockwell Manufacturing, run by Willard Rockwell Jr., to form Rockwell International.
In the same year, the company acquired
Admiral Radio and TV for US$500 million. In 1979, the appliance division was sold to
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St. Louis origins
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.
Rockwell International also drew on the strengths of several of
George Westinghouse's concerns, and Westinghouse is considered a co-founder of the company.
Apex and break-up
In 1978, Rockwell released
AIM-65, a one board
microprocessor development board
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based on the
MOS Technology 6502
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. With the death of company founder and first CEO
Willard F. Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U.S. defense contractor and largest
NASA
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contractor. Rockwell acquired the privately held
Allen-Bradley Company for US$1.6 billion in February 1985 – US$1 billion of which was cash – and became a producer of industrial automation hardware and software.
During the 1980s, Anderson, his CFO Bob dePalma, and the Rockwell management team built the company to #27 on the
''Fortune'' 500 list. It boasted sales of US$12 billion, roughly US$32 billion in 2019, and assets of over US$8 billion, roughly US$21 billion in 2019. Its workforce of over 115,000 was organized into nine major divisions – Space, Aircraft, Defense Electronics, Commercial Electronics, Light Duty Automotive Components, Heavy Duty Automotive Components, Printing Presses, Valves and Meters, and Industrial Automation. Rockwell International was a major employer in
Southern California
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, northern
Ohio
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, northern
Georgia
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, eastern
Oklahoma,
Michigan
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, west
Texas
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,
Iowa
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,
Illinois
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,
Wisconsin
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, and western
Pennsylvania
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.
Anderson stepped down as CEO in February 1988, leaving the company to president Donald R. Beall. The completion of the
Space Shuttle program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. I ...
and the completion of the
B-1 bomber program had led to a decline in revenues, and Beall sought to diversify the company away from government contracts. The end of the
Cold War and the perceived "
peace dividend
''Peace dividend'' was a political slogan popularized by US President George H. W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the light of the 1988–1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, that described the economic benefit of a decrease in d ...
", however, prompted accelerated divestitures and sweeping management reforms. From 1988 to 2001 the company moved its headquarters four times: from
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where it had been for decades to
El Segundo, California to
Seal Beach, California to
Costa Mesa, California to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
At the end of the 1980s, the company sold its valve and meter division, formerly Rockwell Manufacturing, to
British Tyre & Rubber. Although Rockwell was the #1 Defense and NASA contractor, the "peace dividend" perceived after the fall of the
Soviet bloc, led the company to sell its defense and aerospace business, including what was once
North American Aviation, the Defense Electronics Division and
Rocketdyne
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.
The Rocketdyne Division was founded by North American Avia ...
, to
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division (business unit) of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia. It is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems ...
in December 1996. In the 1990s, the company spun off its semiconductor products as
Conexant
Conexant Systems, Inc. was an American-based software developer and fabless semiconductor company that developed technology for voice and audio processing, imaging and modems. The company began as a division of Rockwell International, before ...
Technologies (CNXT), later bought by
Synaptics
Synaptics is a publicly owned San Jose, California-based developer of human interface (HMI) hardware and software, including touchpads for computer laptops; touch, display driver, and fingerprint biometrics technology for smartphones; and touc ...
in 2017. Rockwell International also spun off its two automotive divisions (light vehicles division and heavy vehicles division) as one publicly traded company, Meritor Automotive, based in
Troy, Michigan, which then merged with Arvin Industries to form
Arvin Meritor. That company is now known as Meritor, Inc. In 1996, Rockwell International sold Graphic Systems (formerly Miehle-Goss-Dexter), an Illinois-based newspaper and commercial printing press manufacturer, to its internal management team Stonington Partners as part of a new corporation for US$600 million.
In 2001, what remained of Rockwell International was split into two publicly traded companies,
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation whose brands include Allen-Bradley, FactoryTalk software and LifecycleIQ Services.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 ...
and
Rockwell Collins, ending the run of what had once been a massive and diverse conglomerate. The split was structured so that Rockwell Automation was the legal successor of the old Rockwell International, while Rockwell Collins was the spin-off.
In the end, the result had been four spin-offs and three sales combined from Rockwell's nine divisions.
The various Rockwell companies list a large number of firsts in their histories, including the World War II-era
P-51 Mustang fighter and the
B-25 Mitchell bomber, and the Korean War-era
F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre, sometimes called the Sabrejet, is a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Sov ...
fighter jet, as well as the
Apollo spacecraft
The Apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the American Apollo program's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to Earth. The expendable (single-use) spacecraft ...
, the
B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S. Air Force fleet along with ...
bomber, the
Space Shuttle orbiter
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, and most of the Navstar
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...
satellites.
Rocketdyne
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.
The Rocketdyne Division was founded by North American Avia ...
, which had been spun off by North American in 1955, was re-merged into Rockwell, and by that time produced most of the rocket engines used in the United States. Rockwell also purchased the
Aero Design and Engineering Company
Aero Commander was an aircraft manufacturer formed in 1944. In subsequent years, it became a subsidiary of Rockwell International and Gulfstream Aerospace. The company ceased aircraft production in 1986.
History
Aero was formed in Culver City, C ...
from William and
Rufus Travis Amis. Rockwell redesigned the company's
Aero Commander aircraft
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, introducing its new design as the
Rockwell Commander 112 and Commander 114.
The company developed a desktop calculator based on a
MOSFET chip for use by its engineers. In 1967 Rockwell set up its own manufacturing plant to produce them, starting North American Rockwell MicroElectronics Corp. (called NARMEC). This would later become
Rockwell Semiconductor Rockwell may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Rockwell'' (album), a 2009 mini-album by Anni Rossi
* Rockwell, a fictional town and setting of ''They Hunger''
* ''Rockwell'', a 1994 film about Porter Rockwell
* Rockwell, Maine, a f ...
. One of its major successes came in the early 1990s when it introduced the first low-cost 14.4 kbit/s
modem chipset, which was used in a huge number of modems.
Collins radios were fitted to 80% of the airliners which were based in first-world countries. Collins designed and built the radios that communicated the
Apollo moon landings and the high-frequency radio network that allows worldwide communication with U.S. military aircraft. Rockwell's Rocketdyne division designed and built the third stage of the
Minuteman
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intercontinental ballistic missile, and the
Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere
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Details
AIRS is a Fluid-su ...
inertial navigation system that provided its navigation. It also built inertial navigation systems for the fleet of ballistic missile submarines.
In addition to the manufacture of nuclear missiles and bombers, Rockwell also produced key components of the bombs they carried, including plutonium triggers at the
Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Rockwell ran the weapons plant from 1975 to 1990, and was the one of the subjects of the investigation of Special Grand Jury 89-2 into mismanagement of the plant. In 1990, a group of Colorado homeowners filed a lawsuit against Rockwell and the
Dow Chemical Company, accusing the operators of reducing the value of their properties as a result of plutonium releases from the plant. A $375 million settlement was reached in 2016.
Rockwell built heavy-duty truck axles and drive-trains in the U.S., along with power windows, seats, and locks. The Rockwell Tripmaster trip recording system for commercial vehicles was released along with the Logtrak module for DOT log recording for fleets who successfully petitioned the DOT for paper logbook exemptions. Rockwell also built yachts and business jets and owned large amounts of real estate.
It was also involved in providing custom
electronic intelligence
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equipment to the
Imperial Iranian Air Force
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Imperial era
The Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was a branch ...
as part of
Project Ibex and paid bribes to the Shah of Iran in order to secure contracts there.
Products
Aircraft
*
Fuji/Rockwell Commander 700
*
North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is an American twin-turboprop light attack and observation aircraft. It was developed in the 1960s as a special aircraft for counter-insurgency (COIN) combat, and one of its primary missions was as a forw ...
*
North American Sabreliner
The North American Sabreliner, later sold as the Rockwell Sabreliner, is an American mid-sized business jet developed by North American Aviation. It was offered to the United States Air Force (USAF) in response to its Utility Trainer Experimen ...
*
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S. Air Force fleet along with ...
*
Rockwell Commander 112
*
Rockwell Ranger 2000
*
Rockwell X-30
*
Rockwell XFV-12
*
Rockwell-MBB X-31
The Rockwell-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm X-31 was an experimental jet fighter designed to test fighter thrust vectoring technology.
It was designed and built by Rockwell and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), as part of a joint US and German '' ...
Crewed spacecraft
*
Apollo Command and Service Module
The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother sh ...
(initially under North American Aviation, then North American Rockwell)
*
Space Shuttle orbiter
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(initially under North American Rockwell)
Rocket propulsion (Rocketdyne division)
* H-1 (Saturn I, I-B)
* J-2 (Saturn I-B, V)
* F-1 (Saturn V)
* RS-25 (Space Shuttle)
For a more extensive list, see
Rocketdyne engines
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.
The Rocketdyne Division was founded by North American Avia ...
.
Missiles
Multi-industry industrial products
*
AGM-53 Condor
In 1962, the U.S. Navy issued a requirement for a long-range high-precision air-to-surface missile. The missile, named the AGM-53A Condor, was to use a television guidance system with a data link to the launching aircraft similar to the system of ...
*
AGM-114 Hellfire
Unmanned aerial vehicles
*
Rockwell HiMAT
Research laboratory
Rockwell International had a major
research laboratory
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complex in
Thousand Oaks
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, Ventura County, California. It was founded and built by
North American Aviation in 1962, as the North American Science Center. In 1973 it became the Rockwell International Science Center.
The laboratory did independent contract research for the U.S. Government, and also provided research services for the company's business units. It was famous for its research in: advanced materials, particularly ceramics; for its
infrared imagers; for its research in
liquid-crystal displays; and for its high-speed electronics.
The laboratory invented
Metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy (MOVPE), also commonly known as Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). It also achieved fame in selected areas of information science, notably human-computer interaction, augmented reality, multimedia systems, and diagnostics.
[Vassiliou, Marius, V. Sundareswaran, S. Chen, R. Behringer, C. Tam, M. Chan, P. Bangayan, and J. McGee (2000), "Integrated Multimodal Human-Computer Interface and Augmented Reality for Interactive Display Applications," in Darrel G. Hopper (ed.) Cockpit Displays VII: Displays for Defense Applications (Proc. SPIE . 4022), 106-115.] Rockwell Science Center led the
United States Army Research Laboratory
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's Advanced Displays Federated Laboratory Consortium in the late 1990s. In 2000, the infrared imaging division of the laboratory moved into a new building in
Camarillo, California.
After Rockwell International's breakup in 2001, the laboratory was spun off as a semi-autonomous company called Rockwell Scientific, half owned by
Rockwell Collins and half owned by
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation whose brands include Allen-Bradley, FactoryTalk software and LifecycleIQ Services.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 ...
. In 2006, the main laboratory and infrared imaging division were sold to
Teledyne Corporation. Teledyne made the laboratory complex in Thousand Oaks into its corporate headquarters. A reduced but active research and development operation continues there, under the name Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC.
See also
*
References
Further reading
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Primary sources
*
External links
Rockwell AutomationRockwell CollinsNorth American Rockwell history on Boeing.comRockwell International history on Boeing.comBoeing Australia's history of Rockwell International1987 article on longtime CEO retiring.
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