Certified Member Program

For Control System Integrators, For End Users

CSIA's landmark Certified Member program, introduced in 2001, provides manufacturers – for the first time – an important management tool for use in evaluating and selecting control and information system integrators.

The program, which evolved from CSIA's extensive Best Practices and Benchmarks process, was developed in concurrence with Fortune 500 businesses and other companies that use control and information system integrators' services, control and information product manufacturers that often team with these firms, and CSIA members.

Its two-fold goals are:

- To simplify what was recognized as the daunting task of identifying, interviewing, qualifying, evaluating, selecting, and managing control and information system integration firms. It had become risky, if not impractical, for potential clients to select a control and information system integrator based primarily on its sales volume, years in business, or size of its facility.

Too much is at stake with today's demands on ROI and operational performance to simply use generalized evaluation criteria. The CSIA Certified Member program provides an industry-specific means to identify the areas of importance and minimize the uncertainties.

- To provide control system integrators with a means to evaluate and continuously improve their business. The Best Practices and Benchmarks process also serves as an ongoing "checks and balances" tool that control system integrators can use in a "self-deterministic" fashion.

UPDATE: 100 CSIA members achieved "Certified Member" status as of June, 2007.

CSIA's "Raising the Bar" slide story on our Certified Member program.
CSIA's list of Certified Members.
Supplier Endorsements of CSIA Certified Members.