Important events in the ZAT history
1962 - Development and production of automatic mining devices including special sensors are launched in the Research and Development Centre of Uranium Industry Automation
1964 - The Research and Development Centre of Uranium Industry Automation is relocated to the buildings of the former Kamenná mine
1965 - Automation research department no. 5 becomes part of ÚVZÚ ŠKODA (Central Research and Testing Institute ŠKODA)
1966
- Development Centre of Uranium Industry is turned into Uranium Industry Development Works “VZUP Kamenná”
- the first compact control system DIAMO KŘS is developed
1970 - Independent Automated Technologies Operations Department is formed as a part of the Development Plant of Uranium Industry

1973
- Automated technology operations are relocated to a new building in Příbram
- Large volumes of orders – namely deliveries for conventional power engineering
1974 - Automation research is transferred from Central Research and Testing Institute ŠKODA in Pilsen to Electrotechnical Works in Doudlevce
1984
- Automated Technologies Operations unit changes into Závod automatizační techniky – ZAT, a part of Uranium Industry Development Works (VZUP). Second company building opens in Příbram
- first control systems utilizing microprocessors
- increasing number of final deliveries, in particular for the power and gas industry and for surface mining
1988 - an independent Automation Unit, part of Škoda Plzeň, is formed in Doudlevice
1992
- Závod automatizační techniky – ZAT is detached from the uranium industry; ZAT a.s. company is formed in Příbram
- the company is privatized
- development of a new series of control systems starts
- investments into production technologies and equipment
1993 - The automation unit of Škoda Plzeň is turned into ŠKODA Automatizace s.r.o. company, later renamed to ŠKODA Controls s.r.o.
1997 - ZAT a.s. buys the Pilsen company Easy Control
1998 - ŠKODA Controls becomes one of the divisions of ŠKODA Energo s.r.o.

2003 - ZAT a.s. acquires power engineering activities of the Controls division from ŠKODA Energo s.r.o.
2005 - Subsidiary company ZAT Easy Control becomes a part of ZAT
2006 – Clinical trials of MDM device for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy, using the method of Mesodiencephalic modulation, are successfully completed
2007 - A new building of the Research and Development Centre with a ZAT a.s. testing room is opened in Pilsen
2009 - ZAT a.s. founds the MDM Centrum, a subsidiary focused on the application of the Mesodiencephalic modulation medical treatment method
2011 - for the first time are presented new process station SandRA
2012 - the company celebrates its 50th anniversary
2014 – …and future is in our hands…