1995:  ORIGINS IN THE FACTORY

A manufacturing engineer, working in a PCB design and assembly company, needed to program production machines and document operator visual aids and instructions more quickly. He wanted a better tool than those available at the time to convert CAD into these outputs. To create the tool, he approached another manufacturing engineer who specializes in Windows software for automating large manufacturing process equipment. They combined skills and efforts to create a basic software tool to solve the problem. This first software tool was the predecessor to today’s CircuitCAM.

1996:  ENGINEERING A MAINSTREAM PRODUCT

Realizing this tool would be valuable for other manufacturers and manufacturing engineers, Aegis incorporates to offer a commercial product. Engineering and alpha-user feedback continues on early software versions.

1997: OPERATIONS BEGIN

Aegis receives investment capital and began official operations. CircuitCAM becomes a mainstream product. The product enters real-world use in production. Aegis is profitable within six months and finances its growth through revenue thereafter. Programming interfaces to multiple brands of production machinery are developed during the course of the year.

1998: CHOOSING TO LEAD TECHNOLOGICALLY

A major engineering and business decision is made to establish Aegis as the clear technology leader in its segment. CircuitCAM is entirely re-engineered using the latest Windows technologies, dramatically improved from customer feedback drawn from the first versions.

1999: GROUNDWORK FOR THE ENTERPRISE SOLUTION

CheckPoint is released to address the BOM management, and revision control requirements of customers. Aegis develops the product as a necessary step in its technology roadmap for ultimately delivering a fully integrated web-centric MES solution. CircuitCAM machine and CAD interfaces also significantly expand in quantity and capability during this period.

2000: CORPORATE GROWTH

Aegis outgrows two headquarters offices, opens several satellite facilities, begins overseas distribution, and increases its agreements for engineering and resale of its products with machine manufacturers to total more than twenty.

2001: WEB-CENTRIC MANUFACTURING UNVEILED

Aegis wins the EP&P Product Excellence Award, and the Circuits Assembly Service Excellence Award. Aegis moves to its new 20,000 sq.ft. headquarters. FUSION is released. It is the only web-centric enterprise software system combining NPI and MES functions into a singular solution. Shortly thereafter, iView, iTrac, iPortal, and iQ portions of the system for paperless documentation, WIP tracking, and quality data collection are released. Frost and Sullivan rates Aegis global market share at 19.4%, ranking second overall.

2002-2005: FROM SOFTWARE TOOLS TO ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS

Deloitte and Touche rates Aegis 11th in the “Fast 50 Technology Growth Companies.” By the end of 2002, 26 machine manufacturers are aligned with Aegis, and the customer base exceeds 450.

The revolutionary iMonitor and xLink technologies earn the SMT Magazine Vision Award.

Aegis grows to service 4 of the top 10 worldwide medical device manufacturers and 7 of the top 15 United States military manufacturers, and 2 of the top 5 EMS providers.

Aegis wins the Circuits Assembly Service Excellence Award 5 years in a row.
Aegis release Version 6 that introduces shop-floor materials control, broadening Aegis solution for the overall challenges faced by manufacturers.