About Vista Control Systems
Our name, Vista Control Systems®, reflects the detailed view of your facility provided by our suite of real-time process control software products, collectively referred to as Vsystem®. It also points out our staff's reputation for breadth of vision. And in a moment of whimsy, the founders of Vista decided that the name was quite fitting for a company located in Los Alamos, atop the Pajarito plateau, high above the upper Rio Grande valley in north central New Mexico. Spectacular views of three separate ranges of the southern Rocky Mountains can be had just a short distance from our corporate headquarters.
Vsystem is one of the most advanced data acquisition and control tools in the world. With installations in such diverse parts of the world as the United States, Japan, Korea, Germany, Russia, England, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium, Thailand, China, and The Netherlands, Vista Control Systems has gained global recognition.
We feel that our success results from a variety of tangible factors, including a commitment to hire the best people to pioneer the best in process control technology, world-class after-the-sale customer support, and a dedication to our customers' success.
Company Facts
Established: 1989
Ownership: Privately Owned
Headquarters: Los Alamos, NM USA
Distribution: United States, Japan, Korea, Germany, Russia, England, Switzerland,
Canada, Belgium, Thailand, China, and The Netherlands
Industries served: Particle accelerators, fusion research, nuclear research
reactors, steel production and finishing, aluminum production, agricultural irrigation,
water monitoring, water and waste water facilities, Machinery monitoring, aerospace
and automotive test cells, cancer treatment, contact and interocular lens production,
and nuclear and conventional power plant monitoring and training.
Vista Control Systems® History
Vsystem grew out of work performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Peter Clout, president of Vista, led a team of talented individuals developing a control and monitoring system for the Proton Storage Ring project. Early Vista employees worked with Peter and others to design a graphically oriented control system for newly available workstations. The result of their efforts was a revolutionary tool kit for real-time control.
In 1987, Peter demonstrated this software at a conference in Switzerland. There he met Richard Tatham, owner of Hytec Electronics Ltd., a British manufacturer of data acquisition and control systems. Richard, along with other conference attendees, recognized the software's power, and he knew that there was nothing quite like it on the market.
In 1989, with Richard's encouragement and support, Peter and others left the laboratory to establish Vista Control Systems. The new company licensed the laboratory software and developed it into an advanced suite of products, which collectively came to be known as Vsystem.
Industrial clients immediately saw advantages to Vsystem: an easy-to-use graphical user interface, quick logging, and effective alarming. Industrial managers are particularly impressed with Vsystem's open architecture , extendable software, and ease of implementation. Now well over half of Vista's sales are in the industrial sector.
Vista Control Systems is also one of the authorized sales agents for Hytec Electronics products sold throughout North America. Hytec Electronics is a leading manufacturer of CAMAC and VME I/O products.