Author: Ray Keefe

  • The New Inventors – a Win for Can-Tek

    We are so pleased to announce that Ross Brinsdon of Can-Tek has won the latest episode of the ABC program The New Inventors with his water based aerosol touch up paint product which allows you to get exactly the custom colour you want in an aerosol can that is loaded…

  • Casey Business Awards Finalist

    Casey Business Awards The City Of Casey are holding their inaugural Casey Business Awards and at the Casey Business Breakfast this morning Successful Endeavours were nominated as finalists in two categories.   The two Casey Business Awards categories are: Manufacturer Of The Year Business and Professional Services We fall into…

  • Australian Engineering Week 2010

    Australian Engineering Week 2010 Today begins Australian Engineering Week 2010. You can get a full run down on all the events at Make It So which you might recognise as a tribute to the Star Trek series.   It got me thinking about why I got started in Engineering. It…

  • High Voltage Power Electronics

    Safety in High Voltage Power Distribution My thanks to Tim Heemskerk of ABB High Voltage Division in Lilydale for this clip. It shows how dangerous High Voltage power can be in Electric Power Transmission Systems and why ABB take so much care in how they handle High Voltage Switching, Power…

  • From Engineer to Entrepreneur

    This week I was the recipient of an Exponential Entrepreneur of the Year award. Last year we were received two awards for technical excellence when we won two of the 15 EDN Innovation awards handed out in Australia in 2009.   So I was very pleased to be receiving an…

  • Local Casey Electronics Business Wins National Awards

    We have been pretty busy so far this year preparing several new products for both the Australian and International markets including an advanced DNP3 enabled power controller for the American Smart Grid initiative. So it was a pleasant interruption to this when we received news that our local Council wanted…

  • What’s So Good About Being An Engineer?

    An Engineering Problem in Disguise A funny thing happened to me the other day during the Christmas shopping rush at our local shopping centre in Endeavour Hills. Our daughter had purchased some clothes for her nieces for Christmas and used the self serve checkout. When she got home she discovered…

  • Electronics Design for Green Manufacture?

    Electronics Design for Green Manufacture This is not as straight forward a topic as it might at first seem to be. And this is because there isn’t yet a unified agreement on exactly what Green Manufacture means. And like most Design Issues, you cannot do Electronics Design without clear requirements.…

  • Green Electronics Strategies – Reduce Power While Awake

    Electronics Design To Save Energy We have looked at how Low Power Electronics is a green strategy because it reduces the amount of power that has to be generated. And then we looked at a range of options for Reducing Electronics Power Consumption.   Now we are into specifics. The…

  • Green Electronics Strategies – Sleep Saves Energy

    How Does Sleep Save Energy? For this post, we will look specifically at Embedded Software techniques to save power and energy. This is a well known Power Saving Strategy which doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. It is also something you have to design into the Power Management Plan…