Vista Control Systems Inc provides multi-platform, high-performance SCADA and process control software tools for commercial and government applications. Vista focuses its product on the process control, research and test-stand application areas where high performance SCADA systems are required. Vista Control Systems has developed a suite of real-time process control software products, collectively referred to as Vsystem®. Vsystem grew out of work performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Peter Clout, now president of Vista, led a team of talented individuals developing a control and monitoring system for the Proton Storage Ring project. Early Vista employees, including Virginia Martz, 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 1989, a group of players 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. 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. 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.
