Company History
CONVERSIONS, INC. was founded in 1973 as a privately held consulting firm that specialized in high speed machine design projects. The headquarters was originally located in Chicago, Illinois, the center of a large manufacturing automation region.
The early mission of CONVERSIONS, INC. focused on the principles of organizing and analyzing automation information through full project implementation. The firm carefully managed project work to ensure growth without the need for venture capital or going public. CONVERSIONS, INC. projects included developing innovatiove solutions to increase productivity and profitability for clients. From these early projects emerged concepts for processes and tools that could be applied in an advanced automated environment.
During the 1980s, CONVERSIONS, INC. realocated its resources to developing a core set of application tools that could be applied in an industrial environment to create high reliability solutions for increased safety in the power industry, process control, and discrete manufacturing. This is what is known today as Critical Control technology, a term wich originated from CONVERSIONS, INC. involvement with the global standards committees devoted to improved high reliability and increased availability control solutions.
In 1992, CONVERSIONS, INC. was incorporated and expanded to meet the challenges of a dynamic business environment. By establishing focused divisions which provide specific advanced technology solutions, the company has grown and today is recognized for its leading edge capability in providing the best possible designs with the most current proven technology.
CONVERSIONS, INC. held its first User's Group Conference in 1993, the same year it developed the first truly integrated TMR (Triple Modular Redundancy) industrial control architecture based system. This first conference, attended by 38 people at the IPC Conference in Detroit, Michigan, resulted in continued events sponsored globally in 34 countries.
In 1999, CONVERSIONS, INC. launched its first commercial SIS (Safety Instrumented System) software called SafeSIS. It combined computer display features, such as graph and chart visual statistical representations, with a database management tool for assigning attributes to these features. By statistically analyzing system configurations, hardware selection, and reliability data, quantitative results compliment qualitative analisis in determining the proper selection for the control system solution. This analysis became the basis for specific system development, and in 2000, CONVERSIONS, INC. opened two new divisions to provide high reliability products for the controls industry; Process Analyzers and Monitors and SPIDER Industrial Computer Systems, in addition to its Power, Reliability, and Critical Controls business.
Today, located in a suburb of Houston, Texas, CONVERSIONS, INC. continues to provide current technology products and systems that meet the emerging global standards and requirements for the most reliable and safest solutions available in the industry.
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