Projects
This page outlines a handful of past projects that we have designed for our customers to highlight the various disciplines that are typically involved.
Roller shutter control panel featuring Keeloq remote control and an intelligent safety system.
Control electronics and software for motorhome tow car braking system featuring MEMS technology to detect the tow vehicle braking.
Airport taxiway lighting monitor for major UK airport to identify lamp failure.
Power transformer dryer control system using Peltier modules to remove moisture from large power transformers.
Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) "bed of nails" test jigs for production volume testing with connection to PC via PCI or USB.
Doffer speed controller for cashmere wool spinning machines with optical measurement of web thickness.
Motorsport data logger for performance analysis of development parts, measuring turbocharger intercooling parameters and engine revs.
Other Past Projects Include:
- Handheld temperature logging system with PC docking station incorporating wireless data transfer.
- Various industrial plant control systems yielding increased plant productivity through finer control of process parameters.
- Geophysical survey equipment including seismic instrumentation for gun hydrophones.
- Engine test cell monitor and data collection with on-screen data presentation and production of multi-axis graphs.
- Lamp brilliance monitoring system incorporating RMS to DC converters for non-sinusoidal waveform measurement.
- Complex machine controls including printers and industrial knitting machines.
- Redundant clock synchronization system with local fallback.
- Portable railway track-side magnet tester for use on a "trainstop" system.
- Hydrogen electrolyzer with safety shutdown and error logging.
- Multi-channel Class-D audio amplifier with priority channel selection.
- Networked nurse call system.
- Ruggedized waterproof monitors in stainless steel enclosures for use on survey vessels.
- Various motor speed controls including field vector control of PMSM and ACIM motors and DC injection brakes for AC motors.
- Load cell interfacing for batch weighing systems.
- 16-bit Selsyn to Binary converters for steel pipe mill.
- Highly accurate and linearized multi-channel platinum resistance thermometer amplifiers.
- Various metrology systems incorporating fail safe techniques for use in fuel storage ponds.
- Gyro compass interfaces incorporating two-speed Synchro systems.
- Product traceability database systems.
