History

Founded in 1968, CSI pioneered the application of microprocessor and networking technology for real-time control problems.

By the end of the 70s, we were providing complete distributed control and information processing systems for material handling and inventory management.

And by the mid-80s, CSI was an established supplier of innovative system solutions to a range of continuous process industries.

Dissatisfaction with Control System Technology

In the early 1990s, CSI engineers were no longer satisfied with the capabilities of the existing DCS, PLC/HMI, and SCADA systems.

Control system technologies were expensive, too hard to configure, proprietary, and required process engineers to constantly learn new technology that had nothing to do with their process.

With the growing power and reliability of PCs, process engineers were asking for an easier, less costly approach to developing, modifying, and maintaining control systems.

In 1996, CSI introduced UCOS in response to those concerns.

CSI's History of Innovation

UCOS is just one of CSI's many control system innovations:

• CSI pioneered the use of VAX and Alpha mini-computers in control systems
• CSI was the first to use X-windows in automation systems
• CSI was the first to release a control system on Windows NT
• CSI pioneered PC-based real-time control
• CSI was the first deploy object-oriented control software (UCOS U.S. Pat. 5,812,394)
• CSI was an early adopter of TCP/IP as a basis for a control network

Today, CSI continues to innovate with systems that can be designed, developed, deployed, and supported over the Internet.