Founded in 1961 as Abbott Transistor Labs, the company quickly focused on meeting the challenges of customers in the aerospace and defense industries for high reliability power supplies and magnetic components like coils and transformers. In fact, several of its early power supplies and magnetics flew on the Apollo missions to the moon and back. Today, Abbott Technologies maintains its focus and reputation on power supplies and transformers for military and defense customers, while expanding to serve industrial, telecom and railway applications where reliability and performance are key requirements. Indeed, customers continue to rely on Abbott to deliver when reliability is essential.