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Briggs & Stratton’s journey into battery manufacturing is one of innovation and strategic adaptation. In 2014, the company embarked on a research initiative to explore lithium-ion battery options to electrify its equipment, making their products even more robust.

The harness industry represents one of the most important sectors in our country, which plays a crucial role in various sectors such as automotive, aerospace, and electronics, and has seen significant advancements in recent years. And at Murcal one of the most impactful changes has been the implementation of quality improvement initiatives. These initiatives are essential for ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of harnesses, which are critical components in complex systems for our customers.

Within the last year our Engineering team has produced an improved website that allows users of S800 control panels to remotely view live data from their stations anywhere! Whether navigating from a tablet, laptop, or phone, users are just a step away from securely logging on through their browser.

The 2024 World Ag Expo® ended last week, marking the end of yet another great year for the Agriculture Industry's Technology. The World Ag Expo® is where farmers discover products that can help make their work easier. Farmers can learn and network from others and the industry itself, with lots of opportunities to expand their farm’s productivity.

Barbara Saks Murphy was born in 1947 in Santa Monica, California. Her early years were spent in Pacific Palisades with her parents, Robert and Joyce Saks, and her older sister, Sandy, before the family later moved to Los Alamitos. Barbara often shared tales of encountering famous actors in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

We are used to seeing coverage of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean every summer, but rarely in the Pacific, and this is because there are many factors that need to play out in order for a hurricane to form: Wind Direction and Water Temperature are the main two culprits.

As we discussed in our previous article, MurCal has partnered with several Wind Machine companies over the past several decades to modernize their equipment with sleeker, more advanced interface options. Wind machines are one of the classic frost protection methods for farmers, pioneered in California back in the 1920s. Windmills are now used in many parts of the world to protect crops from frost and freezing. Almost all of California's citrus orchards are protected by wind machines and this trend is only expanding, and farmers are looking for superior frost protection built to last.

Huntington Beach is a seaside city within Orange County in Southern California that serves almost 200,000 residents. Incorporated in 1909, it is located 35 miles south of Los Angeles and 90 miles north of San Diego. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, and with Costa Mesa/Newport Beach to the East. With its 9.5-mile (15.3 km) of beautiful beach, mild climate, and excellent surfing, it has long been known as Surf City.

The World Ag Expo® is the perfect place to find innovations that help farmers do their jobs quickly & skillfully, while being able to automate many of their tasks to organize their day more than ever. Innovations are always a big draw to the event along with every solution available to help producers. Everyone at the Expo enjoys learning, shopping, networking and eating together! There are many things to see!

The World Ag Expo® is the largest annual outdoor agricultural exposition with over 1,200 exhibitors and an attendance of more than 100,000 each year on 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space. The show offers a wide range of ag-related exhibitors that display the latest in farm equipment, communications, and technology. Free seminars focus on a variety of topics important to dairy producers, farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness professionals.

By combining Enovation’s PowerView® displays with our proprietary SmartCommand™ software configuration package, you have the ability to customize the critical information needed to accurately monitor your engine’s performance straight out-of-the-box for display and monitoring of industrial, on-highway and marine engines.

This Week We Talked To MurCal’s Director John Murphy, Who Has Worked Here For Nearly 62 Years And Succeeded His Parents, Who Founded The Company, When They Retired.

The TEC-10 is an electronic controller which provides full control of your engine including auto start/stop, auto throttling and display of engine parameters along with critical faults from the engine/application.

With an extensive customer base dating back to 1952, Smith Power Products supports surface and underground mining, as well as major drill and service companies, including some of the country's largest public transportation networks in various cities, counties, states and government agencies.

MurCal, Inc. has been in the municipal pump control business for decades. As the older technology found in our past panels becomes obsolete, our customers look to us to provide them with the latest technology. Sometimes, this means a complete panel upgrade. Other times, the customer would like to leverage his existing components and just upgrade the heart of his system. This approach can be more efficient and earth-friendly.

We were excited to host Mikael from CRE Technology in France for sales and technical training on their GenSet controllers.

We’d like to extend a big thank you to the team from Trombetta for coming out today to train on their J1939 product line. We gained a lot of knowledge today.

MurCal's influence is everywhere!