Our Mission
At Quantum Design our mission is to deliver the highest-quality, tailored solutions to drive increased efficiencies for our customers. We pride ourselves on our adaptability and experienced workforce. We are committed to providing our customers diverse engineered solutions, exceptional workmanship and superior results.
Our Core Values
Customer Focused: We prioritize our customers and strive to exceed their expectations by adapting and listening to their needs while delivering exceptional products and services.
Empower and Be Empowered: We believe in empowering our employees to make decisions, take initiative, and drive creativity. We are developing a culture where everyone is encouraged to contribute to the company’s success.
Quality: We are committed to the highest standards of workmanship in everything we do. Our dedication to excellence ensures we provide superior products and services.
Open Communication: We value transparency, honesty, and integrity in all of our interactions. By promoting open communication and ethical behavior, we build trust and create a collaborative environment where ideas can flourish.
Supportive Environment: We provide a safe, supportive, and flexible environment that values diversity, inclusivity, balance and mutual respect.
Innovative design for over 35 years
For over 35 years Quantum Design has strived to meet the needs of our customers by providing quality equipment, reliable and speedy service and innovative design. Founded in 1986 by Danny Pearse as an Electrical Engineering firm, Quantum Design is a leading manufacturing and engineering company in the North Illinois area. Quantum Design has grown over the years to acquire 5 unique product lines, an in-house panel building shop, a full service machine shop and an experienced service team. Quantum Design employs skilled machine assemblers, panel wirers and machinists and our engineering team features years of experience in Controls, Electrical and Mechanical engineering. Our R&D team is forever working to enhance our existing products and create new products to serve the needs of our customers. Our customer service team is always ready and waiting to assist customers in need. From opening our doors with engineering services to becoming an experienced engineering and manufacturing company, Quantum Design has continued to work hard to provide customers with solutions to fit their exact needs.
Innovative design for over 30 years
For over 30 years Quantum Design has strived to meet the needs of our customers by providing quality equipment, reliable and speedy service and innovative design. Founded in 1986 by Danny Pearse as an Electrical Engineering firm, Quantum Design is a leading manufacturing and engineering company in the North Illinois area. Quantum Design has grown over the years to acquire 5 unique product lines, an in-house panel building shop, a full service machine shop and an experienced service team. Quantum Design employs skilled machine assemblers, panel wirers and machinists and our engineering team features years of experience in Controls, Electrical and Mechanical engineering. Our R&D team is forever working to enhance our existing products and create new products to serve the needs of our customers. Our customer service team is always ready and waiting to assist customers in need. From opening our doors with engineering services to becoming an experienced engineering and manufacturing company, Quantum Design has continued to work hard to provide customers with solutions to fit their exact needs.
Quantum Design Over the Years
Danny Pearse founded Quantum Design as a controls engineering firm in April 1986. As Quantum Design quickly grew beyond what Danny could handle on his own, he realized he needed a business partner, adding Dave Culvey as Vice President just two months after opening the doors. Before long the company quickly grew from Engineering services into a full-service control panel manufacturer and what is now recognized as a leading Control Systems Integrator.
The controls division initiates the solution, crafting the electrical designs suited for each individual customer as well as each individual Quantum Design product line. Once the design and engineering phase is complete, the control panel shop wires the machine, readying panels for the manufacturing process before commissioning the systems to the customer’s production facility.
A large part of Quantum’s past and ongoing success is a direct result of its best practices in quality, achieving certification to ISO 9001:2015 in December 2014. Moreover, Quantum continues to outline that commitment to quality with the development of an Integrated Management System that measures customer satisfaction and company growth.
Over the last 30+ years, the automation team has diversified into many markets, including aerospace, food and beverage, automotive and transportation, pharmaceutical, agriculture and water treatment. While the focus has always centered around controls engineering and panel building, their success in equipment manufacturing has shined in recent years with the addition of 4 product lines.
In 2007, Quantum Design purchased Centro-Metalcut, in 2014, the duo acquired KTI (formerly Keene Technology, Inc.). In 2016, the purchase of Quantum Roll Sheeters (formerly Grafech) was complete, and just this past year they secured the acquisition of CTC, formerly a competitor of KTI selling similar equipment with a big following in both the domestic and international market.
In July 2018 Quantum Design broke ground on a brand new 100,000 square foot facility and officially moved their 4 locations into 1 in the Spring of 2019. Now under one roof, Quantum continues to focus on improving and growing all 5 product lines by sharing resources and improving their internal processes.
As of January 2024, long-term employee, David Culvey, former Executive Vice President retired from the business after 37 years and new leadership is emerging at Quantum. Angie Ostler, former Vice President of Finance & Marketing, has been named President, overseeing the day-to-day operations with a focus on the company financials, and Derek Wheeler, former Vice President of Sales, has been named Executive Vice President, focusing on the Operations and Engineering processes within the company. Danny Pearse will step into a new role as CEO overseeing the business at a higher level.
Concurrent with the Executive changes, Quantum Design brought on a new Vice President of Mechanical Engineering, Zach Roberts. Zach has decades of experience in converting and web-handling equipment manufacturing and has already made strides at the company creating efficiencies within the Mechanical Engineering process. Zach’s knowledge of equipment design will offer enhancements to all Quantum Design product lines. Zach joins Derek, Angie, and Nevagay Abel, Vice President of Electrical Engineering, on the Quantum Design leadership team.
