Sylution Incorporated

Our company story begins in 1983 when Kevin Totherow began working in the Electric Utility industry as a controls engineer replacing pneumatic control systems with Distributed Control Systems, replacing relays with PLCs and human-machine interfaces (HMI).

In the 1990's, not just Kevin, but many of us at Sylution were working as engineers installing some of the first process historians, independent HMIs, using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and Ethernet communication to control systems.

Kevin became a recognized expert in open system HMIs and process information speaking at TAPPI and ISA functions as well as authoring several articles and sections in books. See Articles.

Kevin formed Sylution Consulting in 2000 to provide expertise and guidance to clients that were layering new information systems over existing control systems. Over time it became apparent that the HMI system was a limited tool. The HMI controls a machine or process. The next logical step was to provide the systems to add visualization and control of the business of manufacturing.

That logical step was to again layer open Business Intelligence solutions over existing control and process information systems as well other data sources to provide the real-time information needed operator - not a machine or even a process - but a plant or a manufacturing business.

That is what we do. Sylution changed our corporation name to Sylution Incorporated to reflect the fact that we supply the systems as well as the expertise needed by industry.

Sylution is a company of experts and expert solutions in Real-time Performance Management and Business Intelligence for manufacturing.