To all of Our wonderful customers - Thank You!
To all of our future customers - We look forward to serving you.

All of us at Cirris wish to thank you for 25 years of enjoyable association and business success. Without your continued support and good-humored patience as we worked to solve your cable testing needs we would not be here today. Thank you.

We have truly enjoyed working with you and hope the feeling is mutual. Please email us your Best Cirris experience or memory from the past 25 years and we will send you a Cirris T-shirt as a thank you. (Indicate size in your e-mail)

The History of Cirris

In 1984, the first Apple Macintosh went on sale, IBM introduced it's AT computer, the first CD player became available, and Cirris Systems Corp. introduced its first cable tester, the Signature 1000. For those that are curious, here is a brief history of how Cirris has developed and grown.
Cirris 25th anniversary was recently featured in an article published in Wiring Harness News, to read the entire article click here.

Cirris Then	Cirris Now!
First Company Front Door	Cirris Systems Headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT Cirris Solutions Office in Germany on the left, Cirris Solutions Office in the UK on Right.

In the Beginning

In 1983 Marlin Shelley was a key engineer and co-owner of one of the earliest dot-matrix printer companies. Marlin was often frustrated by printer troubles that were caused by bad cables. Existing cable testers were slow, expensive, and let errors slip through to the customer.

Marlin's engineering mindset left him wondering if there was a better way to test cables. In a friend's electronics lab in a small office in a quiet Salt Lake City neighborhood Marlin worked early mornings, late evenings, and weekends developing a new kind of cable tester. His goals were to create a tester that was easy to use, fast, and as reliable as possible.

While Marlin worked long hours on the science behind fast, accurate cable testing, he also worked to remove the common pit-falls found in the entire cable testing process. Easily changeable adapters, adapter "Signatures," and "Test Signatures" all helped Marlin to create a reliable cable test system that met his goal of "a tester my Mom could use."

By early 1984 Marlin had created the Signature 1000 and started Cirris Systems Corporation. Right from the start all the Cirris employees worked to create a company that values treating customers and employees with respect. The fact that three of the four original employees are still with Cirris (the forth having retired) and that the average tenure of current employees is nearly 15 years says a lot about these values.

Cirris Then	Cirris Now!
Marlin Shelley - 1985 Kevin Denning in 1986 Brent Stringham - 1984	Marlin Shelley - 2008 President & CEO Kevin Denning in 2009 Vice President Brent - 2009 National Sales & Marketing Director

Cirris quickly moved to a more central Salt Lake location, an old school converted into office suites, and set about working directly with people who build and test cables. With help from those early customers new products were developed. The Signature 2000, the 1000M, and the Signature 5000 became the core products of those early years.

In 1988 Cirris ventured into the high voltage cable testing market with the introduction of the Signature 1000H. Today's core products are the Signature 1100 and Touch 1 series, along with the easy-wire CR and CH2. In addition, Pin-Sight, a revolutionary new guided- pinning tool, was recently introduced. Cirris now offers one of the broadest product lines in the world of cable and harness testing, having placed over 30,000 cable and harness testers with over 7,000 customers throughout the world.

Cirris Then	Cirris Now!
Signature 1000, First Tester in 1984	Current Cirris Products

Why does Cirris' 25 years in business matter to you?