The Passing of Our Industry's Father

摘要

This month, we honor perhaps the most notable person in the history of the power quality (PQ) industry, often called the father of PQ monitoring: Abraham I. Dranetz. Some of us knew him as Abe, and others knew him as Mr. Dranetz. He would have been 93 this May, yet he never stopped contributing to the industry and the world in so many ways. There is the legacy of the name "Dranetz" being synonymous with a PQ monitor, like Kleenex is to facial tissue. More than 60,000 instruments bear his name, many of them still in operation after 25-plus years. Since his retirement in 1988, Abe devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic activities, including the Dranetz Tower at Tufts University's Tisch Library (his undergraduate alma mater); scholarships to dozens of engineering students; and to many other educational, medical and civic organizations.