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Two students from Darden's General Management and Operations Club hooked up with Fortive to devise a scenario in which a hypothetical Fortive business unit manufactured two products —emergency kits and hygiene kits — and worked to optimize their supplier relationship with their purchaser, a day shelter for the homeless in Charlottesville, VA.

At Invetech, we apply robotics technology to so many of the projects we undertake, helping to realize better healthcare technologies for the world of the future. But beyond this benevolence exists an undercurrent of competition, a desire to build robots to engage each other in a battle of wits and brawn, in a ring before a wildly cheering crowd.

Sheetz, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based gas station and convenience store operator, is moving forward with forecourt EMV^TM upgrades across its entire network of stores and has chosen to standardize its network infrastructure with Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s FlexPay^TM IV CRIND payment terminals and other dispenser technologies, to protect its customers from counterfeit card fraud and boost in-store business.

Tektronix has again broken through the innovation barrier with the introduction of the new 5 Series MSO mixed signal oscilloscope. To better meet modern electronics design challenges, the 5 Series MSO redefines the midrange oscilloscope with a host of innovations including the industry's first FlexChannel™ technology that allows 4, 6 or 8 analog channels and up to 64 digital channels, integrated protocol analysis and signal generator, a new 12-bit signal acquisition system, a massive high-definition capacitive touch display, and a highly intuitive Direct Access user interface – delivering unprecedented flexibility and unmatched visibility into complex embedded systems.

The entire Tektronix team is committed to unending learning and to being truly a great place to work. As a result, they posted significant year-over-year improvement in engagement on our 2016 annual employee survey. Today, Tektronix continues driving execution and innovation with the Fortive Business System, developing talented teams and becoming an employer of choice while gaining market share.

To show its commitment to both innovation and teamwork, Gilbarco, a Fortive company, held a series of 24-hour “Innovathon” events in its locations in Mumbai, Florence and Greensboro. The event showcased the creativity, skills and exceptional teamwork across all levels of the company, as the teams competed for prizes for their time-saving, cost-saving inventions.