Moog Inc

Moog Incorporated

Type	Public
Traded as	: MOG.AMOG.B S&P 600 Component
Industry	Aerospace, Defense, Industrial Automation, and Motion Control
Founded	1951
Headquarters	East Aurora, New York
Key people	John Scanell, Chairman & CEO Don Fishback, CFO
Products	Hydraulic and Electronic Control Systems
Revenue	US$2,470MM
Number of employees	10,976
Website	www.moog.com

Moog is an American-based designer and manufacturer of motion and fluid controls and control systems for applications in aerospace, defense, industrial and medical devices. The company operates under four segments: aircraft controls, space and defense controls, industrial controls, and components.

Moog is headquartered in East Aurora, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, New York and has sales, engineering, and manufacturing facilities in twenty-six countries.

In April 1950 Bill Moog (cousin of Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer) applied for a patent for the electrohydraulic servo valve (later called a "Moog Valve"), a device to control hydraulic pressure for fine control of actuators. The US patent 2625136 was issued in January 1953. Bill Moog died in 1997 aged 82.

Moog provided products and technologies that were used on the B-2 Bomber and was also responsible for the flight control actuation system. Moog also contributed to the manufacture and development of both Hydraulic and Electric flight simulators. Moog's design was adapted to form the Spider-Man ride at Universal Studios adventure theme park. Moog also worked on several space contracts and designed part of the liquid rocket engine propulsion systems on the Voyager space probes and provided thruster valves that steered the spacecraft. Moog also made servo-actuators for four Space Shuttles.

Moog provided a control and motion system for the Wimbledon Centre Court retracting roof. This consisted of about 150 axes of AC servo-controlled electric actuators, AC servomotors, AC servodrives and the complete motion control system, including software. It was engineered by Moog's UK facility and allowed the Centre Court's only night-time tennis performance.

Moog also has notable track record of providing a range of control axes on Formula 1 racing cars and has been involved in this business for over 30 years. The technologies provide extremely high power:weight ratio and provide actuation for up to 10 axis on each car.