Enterprise - History
2016:
- In order to strategically strengthen our international sales, the modern CI and a new name were given to the company: sileno (Derived from SILENOS: Greek godess and ruler of the sources).
2015:
Control Maestro 2015 is released and successfully installed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Development of international sales in the Energy Efficiency Management System
- France / Italy / Spain / Portugal / England / Belgium / Netherlands
2013:
The e3m Data Center 3.0 as well as the SMINT Box are available.
ControlMaestro2013 is certified as BACnet Advanced Workstation (B-AWS).
2012:
Our first automation engineer EFZ apprentice finishes his 4-year apprenticeship successfully.
2011:
The e3m business establishes itself as a fast growing third business unit additional to the SCADA and Alarm Server business. Therewith various partners from different sectors successfully realize projects in Switzerland and abroad.
2009:
Sauter AG becomes the first OEM customer of e3m and distributes the solution under the name of Sauter EMS.
Emation GmbH at Merenberg (Germany), OPIT Solutions AG at Baden-Daettwil and SCADA SOFT AG announce a wide-ranging cooperation between their companies and a common market presence in the future under the name and logo „emation“. Also SCADA SOFT AG is renamed to emation ag.
2008:
- Moving to the new location, the own building at Schleitheimerstrasse 42 in Beringen.
Wizcon turns into ControlMaestro with an object-oriented platform and web desktop.
With the goal in mind to establish a further business unit in the field of energy data management, we take over the distribution of the MESA System from OPIT Solutions AG under the name of e3m.
2005:
As a member of AVIL we partnership with the training centre Wibilea and instruct for a time of 6 months computer science and automation engineering apprentices in our company. With us they learn most various technical computational basics out of the automation sector.
2003:
To meet the increased space requirements of the employees, we move the company from Rheinweg 1 in Neuhausen to the Wiesengasse 20 in Beringen.
Meanwhile Wizcon is applied by more than 15 well-known Swiss partner companies.
2001:
In close cooperation with Sauter Building Schweiz AG we obtain the trendsetting building control system project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
With the goal to establish a further business unit we take over the distribution of Alert from Micromedia.
1999:
- Christoph Vogelsanger takes over 100 % of the company after the leaving of Michael Eitel.
With PSI (Paul Scherrer Institut) and SBB (Swiss Railways) two large end customers decide to choose our Wizcon SCADA System.
1997:
Foundation of SCADA SOFT AG (services for automation) by Christoph Vogelsanger and Michael Eitel, place of business in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.
Sales and support of PC-based process visualisation software (Wizcon) exclusively for Switzerland via partner network.



