About Centurion Systems Limited
Centurion Systems Limited (CSL) has a strong track record of over 35 years in upgrading and transforming industrial applications and machinery within the East African region. During this time, CSL has established itself as a key partner of the manufacturing industry in Kenya and beyond, as well as the leading private technical training institution in the region. CSL has strategic partnerships with all major international industrial technology providers, including those from Europe and the US, as well as from Japan and other industry-leading countries.
CSL is firmly committed to the country and its young generation, particularily by providing access to high-quality training and employment opportunities. CSL has been instrumental in developing industry standards and curricula for public and private training institutions. Furthermore CSL has actively participated in the establishment of platforms for a public-private sector dialogue.
Core Values
- Leadership in Technology: Continuously pioneering cutting-edge solutions to stay ahead in the industry.
- Transforming Industry: Revolutionizing industrial processes with efficiency, reliability, and innovation.
- Social Responsibility: Contributing to community growth and sustainability through ethical practices.
- Accessibility for All: Bridging the gap in technology to improve livelihoods for all sectors of society.
Our Journey Through History - Engineering in Motion
Since its inception in 1989, Centurion Systems Limited (CSL) has been instrumental in driving the industry standard to new heights. Over the years, CSL has been able to convince the world’s largest Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to trust CSL as their regional integration partner and make their technology available to the local industry.
CSL’s founder and owner up to this date, Dr Kevit Desai, CBS, has dedicated his life’s work to improving people’s livelihoods by providing access to technology for all, combined with critical skills transfer and technical trainings.
Dr Desai’s graduation project for Automation & Robotics in Japan 1991
For over three decades, Dr Kevit Desai, CBS, and his company, CSL, have been instrumental in countless initiatives, including drafting national educational standards, industry policies as well as leading the industry’s most prominent institutions. This includes Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), and culminates in Dr Desai’s elevation to the national government as Principal Secretary for Education.
Alongside its strong industry focus, CSL has always maintained its commitment to improving people’s lives, whether through training of young people – over 6,000 engineers over the years – or developing and installing a meal call system for the elderly. CSL has hosted countless career days, industry platforms and hackathons, giving upcoming engineers a platform to showcase their ideas and make a difference to their ecosystems.
To this day, Centurion Systems Limited remains true to its principles and its cause, ensuring that technology is available to all who wish to explore it for the enhancement of human lifes and happiness.
Company Milestones in Pictures
Corporate Social Responsibility - Creating Employment
Creation of adequate employment opportunity, improvement of livelihood and poverty alleviation remain among the greatest challenges in Kenya, with the young bearing a large burden of this. To counter these challenges, a number of policy interventions have been formulated and
implemented on various levels to address the growing employment problem in Kenya.
The government, development partners and the private sector have undertaken to engage in job creation, regulate wages, operate employment exchange programmes, improve labor market information systems, and re-orient education and training systems to vocational technical training areas as a means of promoting employment. Interventions include promotion of growth and development of the informal and jua kali sector, adoption of fiscal policies and short term measures such as tripartite agreements.
Despite all these interventions, creation of adequate, productive and sustainable employment continues to be the greatest challenge in Kenya. This therefore highlights the significance of taking a different approach to addressing these challenges. With policies in place, immediate actions that will lead to sustainable solutions need to be implemented to fast track the process of realizing and increase in job creation for the youth, thus facilitating their contribution to achieving Kenya’s economic prosperity as well as youth self- dependency.
Centurion Systems Limited (CSL) is gearing towards providing long lasting solutions towards such challenges. CSL has embarked on projects and formed partnerships to be able to tackle challenges, such as unemployment. The projects and partnerships aim at creating platforms for young citizens to train on technical skills and improve on the life skills thereby increasing their chances of getting employment. CSL’s interventions are also aimed at building the capacity of these youths to gain “better” employment, i.e with better pay and also enable them to be entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses. The final goal is to raise the livelihood of the participants, which trickle-down to resolving some of the social challenges.
