Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and supports power conversion products and solutions that transform power into various usable forms. Its products enable manufacturing processes that use thin-films for various products, such as semiconductor devices, flat panel displays, thin film renewable, hard and industrial coatings and architectural glass. The company also supplies thermal instrumentation products for advanced temperature control in the thin-film and other thermal processes for these same markets as well as remote plasma sources that are used in the thin films processing industries and in gas abatement applications. Its solar inverter products support renewable power generation solutions for primarily commercial, and utility-scale solar projects and installations. Advanced Energy Industries was founded by Douglas S. Schatz in 1981 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.