Author: Ray Keefe

  • Best Electronics Design & Manufacturing Consultancy 2025 – Australia

    Best Electronics Design & Manufacturing Consultancy 2025 2025 has been a very interesting year. So it was nice to top it off with some recognition by Corporate Vision News who have selected Successful Endeavours as the Best Electronics Design & Manufacturing Consultancy 2025 – Australia. This continues a string of…

  • Ray Keefe: IEEE Senior Life Member

    IEEE Senior Life Member I recently received a letter from IEEE informing me that I had been awarded an IEEE Life Senior Member in recognition of my many years of loyal membership and support of activities of IEEE. And included this certificate. This was not something I was expecting and…

  • Australia the Confused Country

    This is a LinkedIn article reproduced with permission of the Author, Elliot Duff. Published 23 August 2024. Independent Robotics Research Consultant | Innovation Historian     For those who prefer audio here is an AI generate podcast of this article. Note from Ray, the AI audio playback has done a…

  • Podcast with an Engineer

    Ray Keefe on Australia’s Advanced Manufacturing Edge Rick Merten of InsideOut Group has an Engineering Success podcast series.We did an interview together and the results were amazing. One of the best one-on-one interviews I’ve ever had. You Can’t Design a Solution to a Problem You Don’t Understand: Ray Keefe, Successful…

  • The Future of Innovation in Australia

    The Future of Innovation in Australia We have recently contributed to a webinar on this topic. That event is done and dusted, but you still have a chance to benefit because it was recorded. You can get access to that recording at The Future of Australian Innovation. And there is…

  • What type of products do we design

    Product types we have designed A frequent question we get is “What types of products do we specialise in”? It doesn’t have a simple answer because the range is huge. The reality is that electronics design and the embedded software that runs inside those products intersects with every aspect of…

  • Monash Precinct

    Monash Precinct Right on our door step is a very significant science, research, technology and jobs precinct. It is the largest jobs hub outside the CBD and home to the highest capability science facilities in the Southern Hemisphere. Here is a short list of the facilities you can take advantage…

  • Better Product Development Process

    Made in Australia Electronics: How to compete This will be no surprise to anyone who has heard me speak on this topic. You can’t compete with low cost economies on raw transactional cost if they have access to the same components and production automation you do. And my design team…

  • Greater Dandenong Chamber Business Awards 2025 Winners

    Greater Dandenong Chamber Business Awards 2025 Winners 6 categories, 19 finalists, and Successful Endeavours was one of them. We didn’t win our category on this occasion. Our congratulations go to the winters below. Innovation, Environmental and Sustainability award – Ugly Vodka Community Impact Award – The Bridge Inc Hospitality, Tourism…

  • Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2025

    Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce One of the principles we operate under as a business is “getting involved”. At the local level this means with the local business groups. One of the first things we did when moving to Dandenong South was to join the Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce.…