Our Awards
Successful Endeavours received two awards at the 2009 EDN Innovation Awards.
The awards were received for Analogue Electronics Design and Software in the following two categories:
- 2009 Best Application of Analogue Design - Highly Commended
- 2009 Best Application of Design Software - Highly Commended
For more details on the story behind these innovation awards check out the following blog posts.
Electronics Manufacture in Melbourne
EDN Innovation Awards 2009
See also the following newspaper articles:
Berwick & District Journal - 31 August 2009
Berwick & District Journal - 5 October 2009
Werribee Banner - 30 September 2009
Many thanks go to Pablo Varjabedian of Borgtech Pty Ltd for his support and encouragement and for having the vision, as we do, that niche electronics and embedded software products like the Borgtech CPL2 Data Logger can, and should be, manufactured in Australia.
"We have been very fortunate to have Successful Endeavours design our latest Corrosion Protection Data Logger, the Borgtech CPL2. Their expertise in analogue electronics design has delivered an amazing product that goes beyond our original expectation and was so good it won 2 National Innovation Awards in 2009. Coupled with their general electronics design ability including PCB design and layout, embedded software development skills and Windows based data visualisation software they we able to provide us with the whole package of development services we needed and we have an outstanding product that will ensure our success in the market.
We can’t recommend them highly enough and look forward to working with them again on our next development project."
Pablo Varjabedian
Borgtech Pty Ltd
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Here is a link to Borgtech's Blog where Pablo talks about his experience of working with us in the development of the Borgtech CPL2: Low Cost, Great Service Electronic Design
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Other Electronics and Embedded Software Product Awards
Here are some other award winning electronics and embedded software products that Successful Endeavours is proud to have been involved in the development of:
Safe Turning Indicator - This was the People's Choice and Winner of its heat in ABC's The New Inventors program in 2008. It was also a finalist in the 2008 Innovic Next Big Thing Awards.
The Safe Turn product is an excellent example of smart electronics design creating a low power consumption device that has enhanced ergonomic and visual performance at a reduced price point. This is a classic low cost electronics manufacture example.
"We would like to thank the team at Successful Endeavours for the professionalism they demonstrated in designing and prototyping an Integrated Circuit for our product.
From the initial consultation right through to the delivery of the final product, Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours delivered on time, and was always responsive to our needs and requests for updates. We worked closely with Ray to perfect the circuit, which we at Safe Turn are extremely happy with.
We use the Integrated Circuit in our flagship product - the portable automatic bicycle turn signal.
We personally recommend Successful Endeavours. Job well done team, we look forward to using your services again for our next project."
Michael Orlowski
Safe Turn Pty Ltd
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Mediseus - This device was a winner in the 2006 Innovic Next Big Thing Awards.
This is a low volume, high value add, locally Australian manufactured medical teaching device that accurately simulates the epidural insertion process so that interns and doctors can become skilled at the procedure before having to perform it on a real person. The haptics device is a standard product but the rest of the onboard electronics and embedded software are specifically designed to reduce manufacturing cost in low volumes while providing enhanced performance compared to the use of off the shelf modules. This is custom electronics design at its best.
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Our Electronics and Embedded Software Capabilities
For a detailed list of industries our clients work in, products we have designed and technologies we work with, please follow this link: Electronics Design and Embedded Software Capability.
If you check out the link you will see that there are 122 product categories and 85 industries that have already benefited from working with us.
Below is a list of the electronics design and embedded software services that we supply to our clients. We offer a range of cost effective services to Australian manufacturers and an understanding of the need for successful electronics products that meet the investment balance between development cost, unit cost and time to market.
Electronics Product Development – for some clients we handle the whole thing
- Requirements capture and review
- Software and hardware architectural design
- Functional decomposition
- Reviewing marketing data to identify features versus price point
- Documentation, testing, revision control, verification, validation
Electronics Hardware Development
- Active and Passive Circuit design
- Printed Circuit Board design and layout in Protel/Altium Designer
- Impedance controlled routing for high speed interfacing and RF
- Prototypes
- Design audits
- Low power and battery powered design
- Analogue electronics including preamplifiers, low noise and low distortion design
- Active and passive filters including high order active filters
- Power electronics including MOSFET, IGBT, SCR, TRIAC and PWM design
- AC, DC and BLDC motor control
- Linear, charge pump and switch mode power supply design
- Automotive electronics including load dump rated power supplies and peripheral interfaces
- Intelligent sensors with on board microcontrollers and communications interfaces
- LIN, CAN, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet and custom wired communications
- TCP/IP, 802.15.4, ZIGBEE and custom low power radio communications
- Active RFID with accurate distance to target measurement
- Data logging and FLASH data storage including power failure tolerant storage
- IR communications including operation in full sunlight
- Motor controllers including stepper, BLDC and DC
- Security card readers including iButton, Proxcard, MiFare, iClass, Indala, Weigand
- Wireless data acquisition systems
- Variable colour RGB LED drivers
- Mains power supplies
- Pump controllers
- Consumer and industrial controls
- ESD, EMC, RFI, transient protected inputs and outputs
- Design for manufacture
- Very low cost production ATE systems to complement our design for manufacture service
Embedded Software Development
- Embedded software development in C
- Atmel AVR specialists
- TI MSP430 specialists
- Also working with 8051, ARM (including NXP LPC2000 and Atmel SAM7), NEC 78K and V850, Renesas MC16 RC8/tiny, ST7, PIC and dSPIC, 6801, 80x86
- IAR toolsets
- Borland C++ Builder for PC/Windows based code
- State machine design and coding
- Communications protocols
- DSP and highly efficient translation of analogue filters to software
- Debouncing, noise rejection and fault tolerant design
- Unit testing and automated software testing
- Peer code reviews and code walk through
- Full system simulation – you can test the code before the PCB is available
Electronics Manufacturing support
- ATE – at a price point that really surprises most of our clients
- Electronic serial numbering, calibration and production records
- Cost reduction and reduced rework
- Reduced field returns
- EMC, C-Tick, A-Tick, CE, FCC, FDA and FCC compliance assistance
- Production processes, procedures and fixtures
Mechanical services – through our supply chain
- LASER and NC cut and fold sheet metal
- Plastic injection molded cases and structural members
- Membrane panels, labels, rating plates
- Die cast cases
- Machined and drilled components
- Springs and terminals
- Seals including IP67 and IP68 rated
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