Medical Design and Outsourcing

  • Home
  • Medical Device Business
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Financial
    • Regulatory
  • Applications
    • Cardiovascular
    • Devices
    • Imaging
    • Implantables
    • Medical Equipment
    • Orthopedic
    • Surgical
  • Technologies
    • Components
    • Electronics
    • Extrusions
    • Materials
    • Motion Control
    • Prototyping
    • Pumps
    • Tubing
  • Contract Manufacturing
  • Med Tech Resources
    • DeviceTalks Tuesdays
    • Digital Editions
    • eBooks
    • Manufacturer Search
    • Medical Device Handbook
    • MedTech 100 Index
    • Podcasts
    • Print Subscription
    • Suppliers
    • The Big 100
      • Archive – The Big 100 (2018)
    • Webinars / Digital Events
    • Whitepapers
    • Video
  • Leadership
    • Women in Medtech
    • 2020 Winners
    • 2019 Winners

Power/mation founder Don Craighead dies at 86

January 8, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Power/mationDon Craighead — a St. Paul, Minn. native who founded Power/mation and built it into a provider of automation products and services for life sciences and other industries — is dead at age 86, according to the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.

Craighead died at home on Dec. 18. He started the business in 1961 on a ping-pong table; the company was bringing in $30 million in revenue annually by the time he sold the business to members of his salesforce in 1990, the newspaper reported. After leaving the business, he was active in countless organizations supporting engineering, entrepreneurship and much more.

“He told me … that service to others brought him joy. I believe when COVID-19 hit he lost his ability to connect to one of the most meaningful purposes in his life,” his daughter Janine Olmscheid told the Star Tribune.

On top of its St. Paul headquarters, Power/mation has offices in Pewaukee, Wis., and Wood Dale, Ill, to serve medical device businesses in the Twin Cities and Chicago metro areas.

 

Related Articles Read More >

Making the case for manufacturing automation
Resonetics acquires medical business of Hutchinson Technology
How to move medtech manufacturing into the future
Weiss-Aug buys R&D firm to form Lupine Research

MEDTECH 100 INDEX

Medtech 100 logo
Market Summary > Current Price
The MedTech 100 is a financial index calculated using the BIG100 companies covered in Medical Design and Outsourcing.

MDO Digital Edition

Digital Edition

Subscribe to Medical Design & Outsourcing. Bookmark, share and interact with the leading medical design engineering magazine today.

DeviceTalks

DeviceTalks is a conversation among medical technology leaders. It's events, podcasts, webinars and one-on-one exchanges of ideas & insights.

DeviceTalks

New MedTech Resource

Medical Tubing

Enewsletter Subscriptions

Tweets by MedTechDaily

MassDevice

Mass Device

The Medical Device Business Journal. MassDevice is the leading medical device news business journal telling the stories of the devices that save lives.

Visit Website
MDO ad
Medical Design and Outsourcing
  • MassDevice
  • DeviceTalks
  • Drug Delivery Business News
  • Drug Discovery & Development
  • Medical Tubing + Extrusion
  • MedTech 100
  • Pharmaceutical Processing World
  • R&D World
  • About Us/Contact
  • Advertising
  • Subscribe to Enewsletter
  • Subscribe to Print Magazine
  • Attend our Monthly Webinars
  • Listen to our Weekly Podcasts
  • Join our Device Talks Tuesdays Discussion

Copyright © 2021 WTWH Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Site Map | Privacy Policy | RSS

Search Medical Design & Outsourcing

  • Home
  • Medical Device Business
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Financial
    • Regulatory
  • Applications
    • Cardiovascular
    • Devices
    • Imaging
    • Implantables
    • Medical Equipment
    • Orthopedic
    • Surgical
  • Technologies
    • Components
    • Electronics
    • Extrusions
    • Materials
    • Motion Control
    • Prototyping
    • Pumps
    • Tubing
  • Contract Manufacturing
  • Med Tech Resources
    • DeviceTalks Tuesdays
    • Digital Editions
    • eBooks
    • Manufacturer Search
    • Medical Device Handbook
    • MedTech 100 Index
    • Podcasts
    • Print Subscription
    • Suppliers
    • The Big 100
      • Archive – The Big 100 (2018)
    • Webinars / Digital Events
    • Whitepapers
    • Video
  • Leadership
    • Women in Medtech
    • 2020 Winners
    • 2019 Winners