Our Electronics, Embedded Software and Business Awards

2011 Exponential Entrepreneur Awards

Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours is a two-time recipient of one of the three 2011 Exponential Entrepreneur Awards presented this year by Dr Marc Dussault of Exponential Programs.

Read our blog post Exponential Entrepreneur 2011 for the full story on this award.

2011 Casey Business Awards

At the second annual Casey Business Awards held on 27 October 2011, Successful Endeavours was again a finalist in the Manufacturer of the Year category.

Read more about these awards in our blog post Casey Business Awards 2011.

2011 Electronics News Future Awards

Successful Endeavours is the winner of the Best Industrial Electronics Application Award at the Electronics News Futures Awards presented on 18 August 2011 in Sydney.

Read more about this award in this blog post Future Awards Winners.

2011 Melbourne's South East Business Awards

Successful Endeavours was nominated by an independent selection committee for two awards at the Melbourne's South East Business Awards 2011 Gala Presentation Dinner held on 25 February 2011. It was an honour and a privilege to be nominated for the Small Business Award and the Business of the Year Overall Business Excellence Award.

Read more about these awards in the following blog posts:

Melbourne's South East Business Awards Finalists 2011

Melbourne's South East Business of the Year Finalists

2010 Casey Business Awards

At the inaugural Casey Business Awards held on 27 August 2010, Successful Endeavours won the 2010 Casey Business of the Year Award, were joint winners in the Business & Professional Services category and a finalist in the Manufacturer of the Year category.

Read more about these awards in the following blog posts:

Casey Business of the Year 2010

Casey Electronics Design Business in the News

Casey Business Awards Finalist

See also the following online newspaper and magazine articles:

Berwick/Pakenham & District Journal (now Casey Weekly) - Wired to Win the Big Prize - 31 August 2010

Cranbourne News - Business Backed - 2 September 2010

City of Casey inBusiness Magazine - Casey Business of the Year - Special Edition 2010

2010 Exponential Entrepreneur Awards

Ray Keefe of Successful Endeavours is a proud recipient of one of the six inaugural 2010 Exponential Entrepreneur Awards presented by Dr Marc Dussault of Exponential Programs. These awards were presented to individuals who demonstrated excellence deploying exponential strategies in their business by profitably creating exceptional value for their clients in a manner that is both measurable and sustainable.

Our blog post From Engineer to Entrepreneur has the full story on this Award.

2009 EDN Innovation Awards

Successful Endeavours received two out of the 15 Electronics Design and Software awards presented at the 2009 EDN Innovation Awards:

• 2009 Best Application of Analogue Design - Highly Commended
• 2009 Best Application of Design Software - Highly Commended

For more details on the story behind these awards please check out the following blog posts:

Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne

EDN Innovation Awards 2009

See also the following newspaper and magazine articles:

Berwick & District Journal (now Casey Weekly) - Electronics Whiz Wired for Success - 31 August 2009

Berwick & District Journal (now Casey Weekly) - Electronics Firm Delivers the Goods - 5 October 2009

Werribee Banner (now Wyndham Weekly) - It's a Pipe Dream - 30 September 2009

City of Casey inBusiness Magazine - Casey Business Wins Innovation Awards - March 2010

Our 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.

Read Pablo's 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 - 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.

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
• analog 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 analog 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 moulded 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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