The group's principal activity is to provide control and information systems integration services. The group provides PLC, HMI/SCADA, and instrumentation systems to technologies such as PC-based control (where Frakes has an installed base of over 40,000 I/O points), proprietary and Ethernet TCP/IP protocols over LANs, WANs, and even wireless radio networks covering entire cities. The group was founded in 1978. The group operates from the United States.