Approximately 182,000 Ohio workers are employed in advanced electronics and related industries; about four-fifths of them work in the service clusters: computer services, telecommunications, and tech.
One hundred companies on Fortune magazine’s U.S. 1,000 or Global 500 lists have establishments in Ohio’s advanced electronics and related industries.
The state is world headquarters for a number of these companies: AK Steel, American Electric Power, Cincinnati Bell, Dana, Diebold, Eaton, Ferro, FirstEnergy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, NCR, Owens Corning, Parker Hannifin, Procter and Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, and Timken.
Others headquartered in Ohio, but not making the Fortune U.S. 1,000, include the Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle), Keithley Instruments, Kendle International, Noveon, OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center), and SARCOM.
Companies employing at least 1,000 people in Ohio are found in every industry cluster. The manufacturers include ABB, Emerson Electric, Lucent, the Matsushita-Toshiba joint venture (MT Picture Display), NCR, and Philips Medical Systems (a Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary).
Computer services providers include OCLC and SBC.
Telecommunications companies include Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest, SBC, Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizon.
Tech cluster companies include Ashland, Battelle, Honda, Procter & Gamble, and Rockwell Automation.
Neither the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s John H. Glenn Research Center (NASA-Glenn) nor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a private sector company, but both are included in the tech cluster.
SBC is the largest industry employer in Ohio with 6,800 workers, followed by NASA-Glenn with 6,100. Other companies employing at least 1,000 industry workers regardless of include Diebold, General Electric (U.S.), MCI, and Northrop Grumman.