Based in Houston, Texas, Kinesix Software was founded in 1996, re-built in 2003 and is a privately held company. Kinesix' advanced HMI software was originally designed for petroleum companies that needed to monitor and control large amounts of real-time pipeline data from remote locations. The company soon realized that its products could be used in virtually any client/server environment, and set about growing its markets to include the aerospace, process industries, and railway transit industries, among others. Today, Kinesix boasts a loyal, engineering-oriented customer base of more than 250 companies, including nine of the world’s 10 largest aerospace corporations. In fact, more than 20,000 end-users in more than 40 countries currently use Kinesix’s command-and-control systems.