{"id":22,"date":"2019-07-03T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba1\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:03:32","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb22-69ea1b124f667\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-gb22-69ea1b124f667-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb22-69ea1b124f667-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb22-69ea1b124f667-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" >\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>WBA was founded in 1981 by .\u00a0 Will Business Applications was a sole proprietorship providing business computer support for small companies, mostly small manufacturing companies in southeastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0 WBA specialized in programming mini-mainframes such as the IBM-System\/36.\u00a0 Later, WBA supported AS-400 and pc based systems.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001,  started providing controls systems integration services as a division of WBA.\u00a0 WBA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba1\/automation\/\">Automation<\/a> was born.\u00a0 In 2004, WBA was incorporated in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006,  joined, creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba1\/ehs\/\">Environmental, Health, and Safety Group<\/a> of WBA.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, WBA offices were located in Oley, PA, in a converted barn that was the original manufacturing facility for the Woodman\u2019s Pal, a military machete used extensively in World-War II and subsequent conflicts.\u00a0 In 2016, WBA took over operations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aicontrols.com\/\">AI Control Systems<\/a> and moved to its current 15000 square foot facility in Reading, PA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBA was founded in 1981 by .\u00a0 Will Business Applications was a sole proprietorship providing business computer support for small companies, mostly small manufacturing companies in southeastern Pennsylvania.\u00a0 WBA specialized in programming mini-mainframes such as the IBM-System\/36.\u00a0 Later, WBA supported AS-400 and pc based systems. In 2001, started providing controls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wba.systems\/wba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}