The INTUS terminal family. 40 years of experience included

‘The Terminal People’ becomes ‘Time for Security’. The fresh green design stands for growth and transformation – the strong claim underlines the positive development of PCS.

The new INTUS FLEX mechatronic locking systems offer a simple, secure and wireless access solution.

The compact terminals INTUS 5200 and 5205.

The new family starts with the INTUS 5600.

Vein recognition in award-winning design.

Palm vein recognition for high-security areas – and still comfortable.

Elegant, compact – for time and access.

Access manager with integrated firewall, password protection, and encryption.

Time tracking on the go – winner of the iF Design Award 2004.

The robust and flexible workstation for industrial and laboratory environments.

Compact and cost-effective for time recording and access control.

The Ethernet-based terminal for time tracking, staff scheduling, and access management.

The terminal family set new standards in technology, design, and innovation.

Fiscal year 1996/97 – Management buy-out by:
Walter Elsner (Management, majority shareholder)
Gerhard Kiemann (Management)
Alfred Schraufstetter
Birgit Huber
Matthias Riener

PCS computers were, by the mid-1980s, part of a purely German CAD-CAM-CIM integration solution configured with the PROREN CAD system from Ruhr University Bochum, the EXAPT CNC system from Aachen, and a database. While Apollo Computers was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989, the CADMUS systems remained on the market until the mid-1990s. After various acquisitions in the early 1990s by Mannesmann, Digital Equipment, and Kienzle, PCS became independent again in 1996 through a management buy-out and was reestablished as PCS Systemtechnik GmbH. PCS then focused on design-oriented INTUS terminal systems for time recording, access control, and shop floor data collection. In 2007, PCS acquired a stake in Convision, a video surveillance manufacturer based in Braunschweig, thereby expanding its access control portfolio to include video surveillance solutions.

The compact work terminal for production.

Unbeatable in price and performance for time recording

INTUS 1000 – PCS’s breakthrough into access control.

Technology and design in perfection: with 20,000 installations, the most successful terminal family.

In the 1980s, PCS developed the CADMUS Workstations (for technical-scientific applications) and microcomputers (for commercial applications), based on the Motorola 68000 and MIPS architectures, along with the UNIX-based operating system MUNIX, which was developed specifically for this purpose. The CADMUS workstations were, for a long time, the only alternative to the American UNIX workstations from Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computers, and were awarded the Electronics Innovation Prize in 1985. Parallel to the CADMUS family, the first INTUS terminals for shop floor data collection were developed. In 1985, PCS founded CADMUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS in the United States to market the CADMUS workstations on the American market.

Stable and successful: the PCT 880 series

In early 1970, the company PCS – Periphere Computer Systeme was founded in Munich by brothers Georg Färber and Eberhard Färber, with the aim of developing peripheral systems for IBM’s technical-scientific computers, as well as process control solutions based on the PDP-8 and PDP-11 systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1973, PCS launched the first German "one-board computer," which enabled the creation of intelligent terminals for process and laboratory data acquisition.

Expansion of the PCT devices into the first product family.

First shop floor data collection projects with the PCT 80 series.

The symbol of PCS (six years before the founding of a major IT company): the apple.