20 Years of Successful Partnering

2001 begins the 20^th anniversary year of the partnership between Ci Technologies and SIXNET. In these times of buyouts, mergers, and corporate restructuring, the endurance of our relationship and the benefits it brings to our mutual customers is something worth celebrating.

Our association began in 1982. SIXNET had created the first remote I/O capability for a PLC and CiT was providing solutions for Australian customers based upon the Texas Instruments PLCs (now Siemens). Ci Technologies became the SIXNET distributor in Australia and we began supplying creative and unique solutions to our customers.

In the early 90s, both companies independently had decided to base our future

products on the inevitable popularity of Windows software. Ci Technologies created the first versions of Citect software and SIXNET launched the concept of "I/O for Windows", starting with the SIXTRAK I/O line and quickly adding IEC 1131 programmability with the addition of ISaGRAF.

In 1995, CiT hosted a rather productive (and pleasurable) meeting in Cairns on the northern tropical coast of Australia. On the fourth day of that conference, adrift on a catamaran off the Great Barrier Reef, the concept of Scalable Control Systems was born. A plan was created openly share technology and encourage our engineers to help each other. On the marketing front, SIXNET agreed to assist CiT build their U.S. markets, and CiT helped SIXNET establish business in Australia and Asia. The first common sales channels in Europe followed within a year, as well.

Today, more than 40 factory-trained distributors world-wide provide SCS solutions to OEMs, end-users, and system solution providers in over 60 countries in every part of the world.

We are highlighting our 20^th year, by launching our joint website, www.scspartner.com -- a solutions resource for our partners.

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Two independent companies dedicated to open systems
and the benefits of true partnering.