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 door controller](img/pmac.jpg)
Roller shutter control panel featuring Keeloq remote control and an intelligent safety system.
![Motorhome towing a car](img/motorhome.jpg)
Control electronics and software for motorhome tow car braking system featuring MEMS technology to detect the tow vehicle braking.
![Runway lighting monitor](img/runway.jpg)
Airport taxiway lighting monitor for major UK airport to identify lamp failure.
![Power transformer dryer](img/ptdryer.jpg)
Power transformer dryer control system using Peltier modules to remove moisture from large power transformers.
![Automatic Test Equipment](img/ATE.jpg)
Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) "bed of nails" test jigs for production volume testing with connection to PC via PCI or USB.
![Doffer speed controller](img/doffer.jpg)
Doffer speed controller for cashmere wool spinning machines with optical measurement of web thickness.
![Rally car](img/motorsport.jpg)
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.