Process, control, analyze, test & measure. It’s what we do.

Vaughn Associates, Inc. is an independent manufacturer’s representative for test, measurement, process and control instrumentation. From our headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, and our office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we connect engineers, lab managers and buyers in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. with the manufacturers we represent. We do not make or stock products. In most cases customers buy directly from the manufacturer, and we provide the local application help, quoting support and follow-through.

The firm was founded by Russel “Russ” Vaughn, whose career combined business management with selling instrumentation and capital equipment to industrial, military and commercial accounts. The products he represented covered a broad range of sensors, analytical instruments, data acquisition and environmental systems, and those categories remain at the core of Vaughn’s line card.

Russ built the firm on a simple model that still guides it. Pair technically capable salespeople with manufacturers of quality instrumentation, give each salesperson a territory small enough to know well, and earn customers’ trust one application at a time. Today, under President Tom Cooney, that team includes mechanical and aerospace engineering graduates of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a physics graduate with decades of Gulf Coast analyzer experience, a U.S. Navy electronics veteran, and alumni of LSU and NC State.

Our focus today is the same model, sharpened for how engineers research and buy now. Our line card spans LVDTs and load cells, pressure and temperature sensing, data acquisition, noise and vibration analysis, shock and vibration testing, gas detection, emissions monitoring, combustion control, leak testing, precision fluidics and human-machine interfaces. As a MANA member in good standing, we pair established relationships across the territory with a website built to answer engineers’ questions and give every manufacturer we represent a clear presence in the Southeast.