Manufacturing

Milwaukee-based Strattec Security Corp. has been named the 2014 Supplier of the Year by Ford Rotunda, which is part of the Ford Motor Company's customer service division.

Menomonee Falls-based Magnetek Inc., a supplier of digital power and motion control systems, today announced it received an order valued at more than $1 million to modernize the controls on four 300-ton power plant cranes for the Hoover Dam.

Kenosha-based Snap-on Inc. today reported third quarter net earnings of $106.4 million, or $1.76 per share, up from $87 million, or $1.43 per share, in the third quarter of 2013.

Five lead executives from Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. are among the speakers at the Internet of Things World Forum in Chicago this week.

Elgin, Ill-based The Middleby Corp. plans to acquire Milwaukee-based U-Line Corp., the companies announced today.

Milwaukee-based private equity firm Generation Growth Capital Inc. has acquired St. Lucie, Fla.-based Atlantic Precision Inc.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has fired a consulting firm after learning that one of its principals had an extramarital affair with JCI chief executive officer Alex Molinaroli, according to a report by Bloomberg News.

The National Association of Manufacturers has announced that James Stern, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Milwaukee-based A. O. Smith Corp., has been elected to the NAM board of directors.

Waukesha-based Oberlin Filter Co. recently purchased a vacant 9.5-acre site at 831 Silvernail Road, Waukesha, from Brookfield-based Briohn Ventures 24 LLC, an affiliate of Briohn Building Corp., according to state records.

Germantown-based Cambridge Major Laboratories Inc., a global leader in pharmaceutical API development and manufacturing, and AAIPharma Services Corp. have announced the appointments of Ted Dolan as vice president of API operations and Syed Husain as vice president of the API business unit.