1984

start of a research project for the evaluation of Ag-X-Y literature data at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany (Petzow / Effenberg)
Formation of MSIT, the Materials Science International Team.

1986

First annual meeting of MSIT at Schloss Ringberg

1988

First volume of “Ternary Alloys” a series which became the standard for critically evaluation of ternary phase diagrams. The MSIT Ternary Evaluation Program gains visibility.

1989

MSIT finds a permanent office, G.Effenberg starts up MSI, Materials Science International Services GmbH.
The vision was: to bring more transparency into the conflicting world of constitutional data and to increase the efficiency in research, reducing duplication of efforts, globally.

1990

MSI starts to distill the contents of the world literature by element combination, in cooperation with the Russian Information Service VINITI

1993

The first RED BOOK, reporting the contents of the publication year 1990 is printed, in English. Extracting is continued by MSIT.

1995

MSI, becomes one of the 16 members of APDIC, the Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission.

1994

MSI issues the first electronic Citation Index on materials constitution data, covering publications from the year 1893 onwards.

1997

The first electronic MSIT Workplace comes out on CD-ROM; incorporating all the above data.

2001

The MSIT Binary Evaluation Program starts in pace with the evaluation work in the Ternary Program.

2005

Summer2005 the MSIT Workplace on CD-ROM is transferred into an Internet based Client Server Technology, MSIT Workplace represents the equivalent of well over 40,000 print pages and 800 effective ManYears of expert work.
MSIT Phase Diagram Center, an integral part of the MSIT Workplace now offers all the contents being generated over years plus up to date information.