CTI Electronics Corporation is a 30 year old ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturer founded with the invention of the "Industrial Mouse™", a joystick cursor controller that is used as a mouse pointing device. Our foundation and success has been manufacturing the finest quality industrial operator input devices. CTI is known for designing the most reliable, rugged, human machine interface (HMI) devices that withstand extreme operating temperature ranges, are sealed from exposure to harsh contaminants, and resistant to hazardous chemical and biological materials. These lines of commercial off the shelf (COTS) HMI devices built in our factory include industrial keyboards, mouse pointing devices, industrial analog joysticks, aerospace grade trackballs, analog/digital motion controllers, and NEMA 4 (IP66) sealing momentary switches . CTI’s innovative modular design allows customized solutions of these HMIs to be rapidly prototyped from build to print specifications into a full production rollout.
Our clientele consists of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Systems Integrators, and commercial end users from a wide variety of industries such as industrial processing, medical, military, off-road equipment and aerospace. CTI’s consultative design approach offers a wealth of knowledge to clientele ensuring that the HMI device selected or designed will be the most suitable for the application. Clients have direct access to the engineering design team and quality inspection visits at the Stratford, CT USA factory. In affect at CTI is a quality system which is compliant to the MIL-I-45208 standard, IPC-A-610 standard and also certfied under ISO-9001:2015.
CTI's core competency is designing and manufacturing its own innovative sensor technology which enables us to guarantee our clients long term availability of the HMI devices. By relying upon our own sensor technology, CTI ensures that our HMI devices meet the harsh environmental and operational requirements of the application. Thus, we guarantee that the reliability and durability of our HMI devices will endure continuous operation for many years of usage. To this end, CTIs innovation has produced 20 patents, either issued or pending.
INDUSTRIAL KEYBOARDS
CTI Electronics – known worldwide as the trusted source for top-of-the-line industrial computer peripherals - designs and builds the most reliable, rugged, NEMA 4 (IP66) and NEMA 12 (IP54) sealed keyboards for use in wet, harsh environments, or critical application. These ruggedized keyboards are available without mouse pointers, or with CTI's rugged, drift-free Industrial Mouse™, OrbitalMouse®, or ArrowMouse™ mouse pointers.
INDUSTRIAL POINTING DEVICES
Industrial Mouse™ pointers from CTI Electronics are the perfect solution for applications requiring rugged, NEMA 4 (IP66) or NEMA 12 (IP54) sealed mouse pointers. The industrial joystick version of CTI's Industrial Mouse™ is available as a mouse pointer or a USB FlightStick®. The OrbitalMouse® and ArrowMouse™ button style mouse pointers are low profile, have excellent tactile response, and provide waterproof sealing.
INDUSTRIAL JOYSTICKS
CTI's industrial joysticks are extremely precise, highly reliable, rugged, and drift-free range of industrial computer peripherals that are perfect for use in harsh environments, precision instruments, and restricted spaces. All of CTI's industrial joysticks feature a non-contacting design, which ensures a much longer lifespan than other types of joysticks
- F-Series (Analog)
- F-Series (Digital)
- Medical/Cleanroom
- L-Series Lightstick
INDUSTRIAL TRACKBALL POINTERS
CTI Electronics offers a high reliability industrial trackballs. These rugged and sealed industrial computer peripherals are available as trackball mouse pointers, or with quadrature output. CTI's industrial trackballs are available as desktop mouse pointers, panel mounted industrial trackballs (quadrature) and trackball mouse pointers, and OEM industrial trackballs. These industrial trackballs are in service in military, aerospace, process control, medical and other critical applications.
- OEM
Panel Mount
INDUSTRIAL MOTION CONTROLLERS
These rugged NEMA 4X (IP66) sealed analog controllers from CTI Electronics are designed for use as an operator interface in industrial environments for precision motion control of numerous analog devices including DC motor control, Stepper Motors, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's), etc.
- OEM (USB, RS-232..)
- Panel Mount (USB)
- Plug-N-Play (USB)
- Plug-N-Play (Analog)
- Medical/Cleanroom
STANDARD AND CUSTOM INDUSTRIAL SEALED SWITCHES
CTI's NEMA 4 (IP66) sealed switches are an ideal choice for industrial and medical applications. A variety of standard switches are available, ranging from single button, three-button and three-button with LEDs. In addition, CTI offers unlimited custom screen printing capabilities and custom-designed switches to suit your unique application's every need.
- Industrial
- Custom
L-SERIES LIGHTSTICKS
The LightStick® / Optical Joystick is a new technology by CTI Electronics, it’s a leap forward in the evolution of man-machine interface control. The current joystick technology being used today such as potentiometer joysticks, hall effect joystick, and inductive joysticks have flaws or disadvantages. Most electronic joystick technologies have a work-around to the disadvantages but will add additional time and material costs to its application. The LightStick® / Optical Joystick technology offers two key advantages over potentiometer, hall effect, and inductive joystick technologies. First, the Optical Joystick would have virtually zero susceptibility to Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) signals. Secondly, the Optical Joystick has no susceptibility to high vibration motion or movement.
- Industrial
Medical/Cleanroom
CUSTOM DESIGN PRODUCTS
CTI is a technological leader in the design of innovative, industrial grade, human to machine interface solutions. Over 20 years of modular design technology enables a rapid custom design process using a wide array of standard sub-assemblies. CTI’s innovative custom designs have enhanced the limitations of the “standards” to produce devices and OEM products that are unique in their capabilities. CTI is also readily compliant with Military and Medical industry standards (e.g. MIL-I-45208, MIL-STD-2000, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810F, MIL-STD-883, UL 60601-1, IEC 60601-1, JIS T 0601-1, IEC 61320, BS EN 60601-1) for the development of electrical components.
- Joysticks
- Switches
- Keyboards
- Trackballs
- USB Devices