Square D Company manufactures and markets electrical power distribution and control systems and services. The company provides automation, circuit protection, electrical distribution, machine control, motor control, and power management solutions. Square D Company offers its products to residential, commercial, industrial, and original equipment manufacture markets. The company was founded in 1902 as McBride Manufacturing Co. and changed its name to Fuse and Manufacturing Co. in 1908. It further changed its name to Square D Company in 1917. The company is headquartered in Palatine, Illinois. Square D Company operates as subsidiary of Schneider Electric SA.