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CIMON Industrial Automation Company
CIMON Co. Ltd. (formerly KDT Systems) is a South Korean based industrial automation company headquartered near Seoul Korea. It produces automation solutions such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Industrial PCs (IPC) for industries such as automotive manufacturing, power plants, semiconductors, water/wastewater, electronics, oil and gas, building and parking automation, agriculture, food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, mining, aerospace, marine, packaging, pulp, paper, recycling and transportation.

CIMON Inc. is a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary currently based in Henderson, Nevada with distributors located in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and Africa.

Its major clients include Samsung, LG Chemical, LG Electronics, SK chemicals, Kia Motors, Hyundai, Hankook Tires, POSCO, Seoul Metro, and Honeywell.

History 1999 - 2011 CIMON was originally established as KDT Systems in 1999 by CEO Che Bong An. In early 2001, KDT systems acquired the patents, CE, UL, and FCC certificates for its products. In 2010, a compact PLC, the PLC-S was released. By 2011 the mobile application for SCADA software was released.

2012 - 2013 In September 2012, KDT Systems officially filed for the CIMON trademark rights registration. In July 2013, CIMON Inc. (US) was established and KDT Systems changed its name to CIMON, which is an acronym for Computer Integrated Monitoring.

2014 - 2017 In 2014, the industrial PC series was released. Since 2015, CIMON has received multiple government awards including The 10th Korea Times Innovation Grand Prize (SCADA for Industrial Automation), Small and Medium Business Technical Innovation Grand Prize 2016, Korea Industry Grand Prize 2016/Technical innovation sector, recognition as a Youth-Friendly SME by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the Korea Industry Grand Prize 2017 for Research and Development sector.

2018 - Present In 2018, CIMON (Korea) built its first fully automated Smart Factory. The CIMON U.S. office was relocated from Los Angelos to Henderson, Nevada.

REFERENCES https://www.reuters.com/brandfeatures/venture-capital/article?id=34060 http://www.briefingwire.com/pr/cimon-inc-showcases-new-technology-at-thailands-2017-bitec http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3531706 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140327005270/en/Cimon-Announces-UltimateAccess%E2%84%A2-SCADA-Product-Family-Offering http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140723005147/en/Cimon-Signs-George-Paris-Distributor 

EXTERNAL LINKS CIMON official website (in English) – www.cimon.com