Company History

History Overview

enfoTech has been providing environmental systems and environmental consulting services to State water utilities, municipalities, and the pharmaceutical industry since 1994. Environmental compliance information management systems for industrial waste pretreatment, safe drinking water, and air emissions are being refined continuously and evolve with the development of new technologies.

PACS (POTW Administration & Compliance System), the national leader for industrial waste pretreatment system, has been in use since 1992, and is currently in its seventh release. CAIMS (Clean Air Information Management Systems) has been widely adopted by major pharmaceutical companies world wide for air emission calculations and permit compliance/emission monitoring management since 1997. The XML/Web based E2 (electronic environmental reporting system) was launched in 2000 and has become a strong option for e-government in environmental compliance. The NPDES Information Management System (NMS) was released for production in Michigan in 2002 and becomes an integral part of the MDEQ environmental compliance program.

enfoTech has installed enterprise-wide applications at over 100 facilities in the US and in countries overseas. Our products are ever evolving, fine-tuned with the demands of the industry, and in keeping with our mission to set standards for the industry.

Milestones

1994		enfoTech incorporated. With more than 3 years (1991~1993) research and development, the full version of PACS, for industrial waste pretreatment, was released in Windows 3.11 environment, using Visual Basic 3.0 and Microsoft Access 2.0. WDMS 1.0, designed for tracking wastewater sampling and reporting, was released for commercial use.
1996		WDMS 2.0 released. PACS 2.0 released.
1997		First generation modem-based e-DMR system version 1.0 was developed and released for commercial use. CAIMS 1.0, designed for air emission calculation and permit/compliance monitoring for batch industry, was released for commercial use. PACS 3.0 released. WDMS 3.0 released.
1998		PACS 4.0 released. WDMS 4.0 released. CAIMS 2.0 released.
1999		enfoTech remains largely a research based company. WDMS 5.0 released. PACS 5.0 released. CAIMS 2.5 released. Developed second generation e-DMR system based on X.12 protocol, RC2 version of Windows 2000 and Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) technology.
2000		Web-based e-DMR system released. The system was in production at Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Industry partners for the Project include the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA). PACS evolved to support both the MS Access database (PACS 6x) and Oracle databases (PACS 2000). PACS 2000 using Windows DNA 2000 (COM+), Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), and Oracle 8i Release 2 technologies. PACS 6.0 released. PACS 2000 (Oracle based) was released for commercial use and was in production at the City of Phoenix. CAIMS 3.0 released.
2001		enfoTech began to engage in National Environment Information Exchange Network (NEIEN)projects Michigan State NPDES Information Management System (NMS) development started in Microsoft .NET framework beta 2, with C# and ASP.NET technologies. Developed the e-DMR XML schema for wastewater Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) for NEIEN. The e-DMR schema was adopted by the Technical Resource Group (TRG) as Candidate Recommendation maturity. PACS 2000 v. 7.1 released. CAIMS 4.0 released.
2002		NMS version 2.0 in production at Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. E2 system, designed for e-government for environmental compliance programs, was released for commercial use. Both the wastewater (e-DMR) and drinking water (e-DWR) modules were available. Developed the e-DWR XML schema for laboratory to report drinking water monitoring data to States. The e-DWR schema was adopted by the Technical Resource Group (TRG) as Working Draft maturity. Completed Node (based on Node 0.8 specification) development for the states of New Hampshire and Delaware. Participated in various technical workgroups under the TRG. Including: - Core Reference Model (CRM) workgroup - Data Exchange Template (DET) Policy workgroup - XML Registry workgroup Awarded EPA's e-DMR Network Exchange Challenge Grant from to work with a group of 9 states and EPA to flow DMR data from facility to state and from state to CDX. PACS 2000 v. 7.2 released. CAIMS 6.0 released.
2003		Awarded EPA's Electronic Storage and Sharing of Laboratory Information Challenge Grant to facilitate a group of 5 states and EPA to develop Drinking Water Submission technologies. The Core Reference Model (CRM) project completed. The v. 1.0 document was released to Exchange Network partners. Participated in data standard development activities sponsored by ECOS. PACS 2000 v. 7.3 released in March. CAIMS 6.0 was integrated with the Aspen chemical database to use activity coefficients for emission calculations. Pharmaceutical MACT compliance requirements were incorporated. e-Node released in .NET format.
2004		Michigan e-DMR System has 282 facilities filing DMRs electronically. ePermitting System released. PACS 2000 v 7.4 released in Febraury. E2 System expanded with new "e-Air" module. e-Node released in Java format.   Java version of E2 released. enfoTech expands through a regional office in East Lansing, Michigan.