SolutionsPT was founded in 1985; growing to a company of over 80 people working from our offices in Cheadle near Manchester. The common theme through these 25+ years has been the supply of automation solutions to the industrial, manufacturing and infrastructure markets.
The company initially traded under the name Pantek, originally marketing a range of engineering software before gaining the exclusive UK and Ireland rights to distribute the range of Wonderware software in 1991.
The growth of both Wonderware and Pantek was primarily because of the Wonderware InTouch* product which used its position as first mover to gain a leading share of the Windows powered visualisation market in the industrial market.
The continued growth of the visualisation market allowed Pantek to exploit other revenue streams; including, support services, industrial hardware and consulting services.
During this period there was tremendous consolidation of the industrial automation market with most of the independent visualisation competitive products being acquired to be incorporated into a bigger portfolio.
In 2006 Pantek were invited to consolidate their position with Invensys by becoming Star plus distributors, which meant creating a separate organisation called Wonderware UK and Wonderware Ireland as a mechanism to continue marketing, supporting and distributing the range of Wonderware software.
In 2007 Pantek became SolutionsPT – trading as Wonderware UK & Ireland, HardwarePT, EmsPT and SoftwarePT (rarely used). Each of these divisions carried their own website, email addresses and marketing collateral.
In 2013 it was decided the 3 sub-brands would become ‘SolutionsPT’ and ‘Wonderware UK and Ireland – A division of SolutionsPT’.