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Walton Associates has over 30 years experience in corporate strategy, new venture management, diversification (alliances and acquisitions), and market planning and research. Consulting services are provided primarily to industrial technology companies with emphasis on instrumentation and automation.  

Stephen A. Walton (SWalton208@cs.com) is President and Managing Principal of WALTON Associates; he is also a Partner of PAI Partners, a consulting group that specializes in process analytical instruments. Mr. Walton was a founder and principal of DMCW Associates, a consulting firm, which served process control clients since 1982. Mr. Walton was also a senior consultant in the Electronic Industries Group of SRI International. Mr. Walton's operating experience includes planning and management positions with Xertex (instrumentation) and Envirotech Corporation (process equipment and instrumentation). He has also held sales and marketing positions with Beckman Instruments and Moore Products Company. Mr. Walton is a graduate chemical engineer and a member of ISA, the International Society of Automation; and American Chemical Society.  

Over the past thirty years (since 1982), Stephen A. Walton has managed or participated in nearly 650 projects.  More than 90 percent of these were proprietary projects for individual clients, and the rest were multiclient activities. Of the proprietary projects, more than 70 percent were related to specific process control products. Basic field instruments and control devices accounted for nearly 40 percent of the product research, with flow measurement and pressure measurement accounting for nearly one-half (76 projects) of the basic measurement project activity. Flow technologies covered a wide range including differential pressure, turbine flow, ultrasonic flow, Coriolis mass flow, magnetic flow, positive displacement, bulk material flow, and their related accessory products.

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