Author: Ray Keefe

  • Casey Radio Business Hour Interview With Ray Keefe

    Today I was at Casey Radio, a community radio station catering to the south eastern suburban area of Melbourne, being interviewed for the Casey Business Hour which runs live to air on Fridays from 2pm to 3pm on 3SER 97.7FM. It was the first time I had been to the…

  • Benoit Mandelbrot – Father of Fractal Geometry

    Benoit Mandelbrot has passed away, but his contribution to this world will remain an enduring legacy. Our local paper, The Age, ran an article as Father of fractal geometry dies .   I owe a lot to Benoit Mandelbrot. His Mandelbrot Set graphical representation of the formula Z(n+1) = Z(n)^2…

  • AMTIL Magazine Article On Successful Endeavours

    AMTIL, Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute Limited, have included an article on Successful Endeavours win as Casey Business Of The Year in the October edition of their Australian Manufacturing Technology Magazine distributed to manufacturing businesses throughout Australia.   Successful Endeavours is proud to be a member of AMTIL and encourages other…

  • Casey Business Of The Year Recognised By Manufacture Link

    Casey Business Of The Year 2010 Manufacture Link has recognised Successful Endeavours win as Casey Business Of The Year 2010 in their website news article Successful Endeavours wins 2010 Casey Business of the Year .   Manufacture Link is an initiative aimed at increasing the opportunity for local manufacture by…

  • Some Engineering Humour

    Engineers do have a sense of humour Engineers might seem terribly serious about their work, but Engineers laugh too. And of course, what makes them laugh is as unique as the work they do. The classic Dilbert series of cartoons by Scott Adams are a case in point.   This…

  • Innovative PCB Artistic Creations

    Today’s post comes hot on the heels of my viewing something really special. A member of one of my LinkedIn groups, Steven Rodrig, has used his artistic imagination to create some really amazing pieces of Technology Art from PCBs and Electronic Components.   Please check it out at PCB Creations…

  • Casey Business of the Year 2010

    Last night was the Casey Business Awards gala dinner where the Casey Business Awards were given out for 2010. We are very pleased to have been awarded the Casey Business of the Year for 2010. It was a great night and Casey Mayor, Cr Lorraine Wreford presented the award to…

  • Casey Electronics Design Business in the News

    Casey Business Awards We already let you know that we are finalists in 2 of the 9 categories for the City Of Casey inaugural Casey Business Awards in our post about being Casey Business Awards Finalists. The Casey Business Awards categories we are finalists in are: Manufacturer Of The Year…

  • Squash Lessons for Engineering

    Squash Lessons for Engineering The picture in today’s post comes courtesy of Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist. At his recent Exponential Business Building Bootcamp, he demonstrated how a Squash Racquet gets broken from repeated use.     So what does this have to do with Engineering? Glad you…

  • Embedded Software Testing

    Software Testing I recently met with an Australian Software Development company, PepperStack, and we got onto the subject of Software Testing. As someone who began their career as an Electronics Hardware Engineer, one of the things I learnt was that you have to test thoroughly to be sure everything is…