{"id":18164,"date":"2024-11-22T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/us\/\/?p=18164"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:59:30","slug":"chad-reinhard-industrial-instrumentation-expert-wika-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/us\/wika-insight\/chad-reinhard-industrial-instrumentation-expert-wika-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Chad Reinhard, Industrial Instrumentation Expert at WIKA USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>As part of WIKA USA\u2019s <em>198 Years of Expertise<\/em> video series, get to know Chad Reinhard and his passion for collaboration, industrial measuring instruments, and meeting customers\u2019 needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The product management team at WIKA USA has a collective tenure of almost 200 years with the company. Based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Chad Reinhard has been with the company for 10 years, first as a regional sales manager and then as a senior product manager.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Chad\u2019s priorities is keeping up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/industrial.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">industrial instrumentation<\/a> trends, which he feels is central to not only his ability to advise current and future customers, but also for in-house development of innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/pressure_sensors.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pressure sensors<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/pressure_switches.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">pressure switches<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/continuous_measurement_with_float.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">level transmitters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/float_switches.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">switch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/resistance_thermometers.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">temperature sensors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-us\/temperature_switches.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">switches<\/a>. He also places a high value on collaboration \u2013 internally with WIKA teams for global product management, R&amp;D, and marketing, and externally with customers and distributors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lBNe61iDfto\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">short video<\/a> to learn more about Chad, his expertise, and his dedication to providing customers with robust industrial instrumentation that suit their precise needs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>[contact-form-7 id=&#8221;14552&#8243; title=&#8221;Blog Contact Form&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of WIKA USA\u2019s 198 Years of Expertise video series, get to know Chad Reinhard and his passion for collaboration, industrial measuring instruments, and meeting customers\u2019 needs. The product management team at WIKA USA has a collective tenure of almost 200 years with the company. Based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Chad Reinhard has been with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":18166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,215],"tags":[1125,1124],"class_list":["post-18164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowhow","category-wika-insight","tag-expertise","tag-industrial-instruments"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet Chad Reinhard, Industrial Instrumentation Expert - WIKA blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chad Reinhard, senior product manager for industrial instrumentation, specializes in advising customers on measurement solutions and collaborating with internal teams to develop cutting-edge sensors.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/us\/knowhow\/chad-reinhard-industrial-instrumentation-expert-wika-usa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Chad Reinhard, Industrial Instrumentation Expert - 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