1989 - Process Automation Concepts, Ltd. is born.

1989 - PAC's president, Stephen Dudzik, originally started PAC as a company offering engineering consulting services. PAC is located in Rock Island, Illinois, a city where the Mississippi and Rock River converge.

1992 - PAC becomes a certified engineering company.

1995 - PAC merges with OptimMac, a 3D construct-ability company that also has dealings in 3D software technology. Mike Mason becomes the vice-president and brings with him the 3D technology that now powers PAC's Structural, Civil, and Piping services.

2001 - PAC moves its main office to a 8000sqft complex, its 4th and current location.

2002- Thermal Oxidation Project - Project of the Year in Puerto Rico.

2004 - PAC Introduces 3D Laser Scanning.

2005 - PAC opens a new office in the St Louis area.

Success from the Beginning

PAC has impressed their clients, even from an early age. Clients were amazed at both the quality and quantity of information issued to them. All this was delivered at equal to or less than the price charged by large design firms.
PAC could see that the process design industry was knee-deep in procedures, and stuck in a technological rut, while other industries such as automotive and aerospace industries exploited new technologies to their full extent. PAC saw these problems, and quickly moved in to correct them. We introduced business flexibility and powerful new technologies to the process industry. With these innovations, PAC became the leading edge in process plant design.
Many consumers had begun to accept frustration and failure from designs as "the norm" in the process design industry. When they tried PAC for the first time, they were often shocked by the simple fact that our product works.
"We can actually build from these drawings!" Clients have commented.
People have started to wake up, and are now turning to PAC for designs that really work.