Author: Ray Keefe

  • National Manufacturing Week 2015

    National Manufacturing Week 2015 In a couple of weeks Australia celebrates National Manufacturing Week 2015. Successful Endeavours will be exhibiting there along with the South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance (SEMMA) as part of Austech.      This year the convention runs in Melbourne at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre…

  • Electronics Design: PCB Layout

    PCB Layout After the Schematic Capture component of the Electronics Design  is complete, the logical connections for the electronics components have been determined. If the Electronics CAD package also supports it, you can add rules to guide the Printed Circuit Board Layout, also abbreviated to PCB Layout which we will…

  • Fine Pitch PCB

    Fine Pitch Printed Circuit Board This example is from a project coming to the end of the Proof of Concept phase. So we have done the Electronics Design and also completed the PCB Layout. I can’t tell you what it does, but you don’t really need to know in order…

  • Endeavour Awards 2015 Finalists

    Endeavour Awards 2015     As part of National Manufacturing Week, Manufacturing Monthly run the Endeavour Awards to celebrate Australian manufacturing success stories. Last year we were a finalist for the Technology Application of the Year. This year we are very excited to announce that we are finalists in two…

  • Australian Technical Events 2015

    2015 Australian Technical Events  My thanks go to Paul Daniels of Circuit Challenges and LC Circuits for preparing this list. FIRST Robotics Competition 11-14 Mar 2015 Sydney   South East Asia Protection and Automation Conference 17-18 Mar  2015 Sydney   International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 19-24 Apr 2015 Brisbane   CONNECT…

  • Electronics Design: Schematic Capture

    Schematic Capture Schematic Capture is the process of defining the logic connections between different components in an Electronic Circuit. At the end of the process you have a diagram or Schematic of the circuit. That’s a complicated way of saying that it shows the connections between the selected components. We…

  • Technology Challenge Feasibility Study

    Technology Challenge We have had to keep quiet about this until the Victorian Government announcement today. Now we can let you know that Successful Endeavours was awarded the Feasibility Study stage for the Gas Sensors in Sewers project. We will be working with Melbourne Water to put together the study…

  • Software Languages

    Top Programming Languages A recent survey of the most used Software Languages, also known as the Top Programming Languages,  has revealed what most would have guessed as to the most popular Software Development Languages in use. The survey was published on IEEE Spectrum and usefully allows you to look at…

  • Electronics Design: Component Selection

    Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot…

  • Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it

    Collaboration So what is Collaboration? The first thing it is not is convincing someone to work for you for nothing with the vague promise you will make it worth their while in the long run.   Let’s look at a few formal definitions:   Collaboration is working with each other…