Article: TWO DECADES OF PRODUCT INNOVATION PREPARES HARRINGTON HOISTS FOR DYNAMIC FUTURE.

DATELINE: 2020: A hovercraft turbine engine plant, Anytown, U.S.A.-An industrial maintenance plant operator dons his glossy back virtual reality helmet and slips on a wired glove. With a confident wave of a sensor-padded index finger, his visor fills with multi-colored "Lift-scapes"-three-dimensional renderings of the site's entire automated engine compressor section lifting infrastructure.

Today, Harrington Hoists is poised on the threshold of the new millennium. Its namesake, Edwin Harrington, without the benefit of virtual reality gear, of course, founded the company in 1867. Harrington, a machinist, inventor and entrepreneur, launched his business in Bethel, ...

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