Standex Electronics
Standex Electronics is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based manufacturer that is widely recognized as the world’s leading producer of reed switches, reed relays, and reed sensors, with over 70 years of history producing hermetically sealed reed contacts and operating as a division of Standex International Corporation. The company’s product portfolio spans reed switches in standard and SMD configurations across a broad range of actuation strengths, contact ratings, and temperature ratings, reed relays for telecom, ATE, instrumentation, and data acquisition applications, and its SIL magnetic level sensors for fluid level detection in automotive, medical, and industrial systems. Standex Electronics reed products are used globally in security systems, medical devices, smart home appliances, EV battery management systems, and industrial automation equipment, and the company publishes unusually thorough technical resources on reed switch selection, actuation distance calculation, and coil design for reed relay applications — making it a valued technical partner for engineers incorporating magnetic switching into product designs.