Author: Ray Keefe

  • Green Electronics Strategies – Reducing Power Consumption

    What is so good about Low Power Electronics?   If you read my last post, you would have noticed that this has the potential to reduce overall Power Requirements. Up until now, only Battery Operated Devices have really cared about Power Consumption. If you could plug it into a wall…

  • Low Power Electronics

    Low Power Electronics is a Green Strategy There are 2 ways to reduce your Carbon Footprint. The first is to get the same power from a Green Power Source that reduces the Carbon Footprint at the power generation phase. This is where Wind Power, PV PhotoVoltaics, Wave Power, Geothermal Power…

  • Improving Product Development Outcomes

    In this post we will look at the Product Development Process and how to get improved outcomes. But first here is a fun graphic made from our logo. Product Development Process The Product Development Process is intended to reliably deliver new products for manufacture or distribution. This is a critical…

  • Electronics Design and Embedded Software Capability

    Electronics Manufacturers are the people we serve A common question we are asked is what sort of Electronics Manufacturers do we Develop Products for?   So I thought I would compile 3 lists: The first is a list of the Electronics and Embedded Software product types we have worked on…

  • EDN Innovation Awards 2009 – Two trophies

    Analogue Design Awards You might recall we were finalists in the EDN Innovation Awards 2009 . Yesterday, we were in Sydney for the EDN Innovation Awards dinner held at Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf.   We came away with two trophies. The awards were: Best Application of Analogue Design – Highly…

  • Successful Electronics Needs a Successful Name

    Electronics Development and Success Hello again,   A couple of posts ago in Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne I said I would explain the origins of our company name. Many have suggested that Successful Endeavours sounds more like a personal coaching enterprise or a business that handles products by people…

  • The Internet Turns 40 – Happy Birthday

    There are a lot of news feeds running this story. Here is one:   Timeline ABC News   And when the Internet first began, no-one knew what we would be doing with it today.   This has happened to a lot of other technologies. Low Cost Electronics and Low Power…

  • Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne

    National recognition for local Casey Business OK, I couldn’t resist that blog title or this headline. It isn’t often you get a chance to say something like that. If you hadn’t heard yet, we are finalists in two categories in the EDN Innovation Awards for 2009. Melbourne is the Electronics…

  • 2009 EDN Innovation Awards Finalist

    EDN Innovation Awards Finalist This is a bit of a different post. I’m pretty stoked that we are finalists in the 2009 EDN Innovation Awards in 2 separate categories. The award categories are: Best Application Of Analogue Design Best Application Of Design Software   So I thought I might let…

  • The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture

    High End Electronics In the early days Electronics was hand wired on a chassis. Some high end valve amplifiers still do this.   But of course this isn’t very compact. For those who didn’t know, I am a guitarist and use a Carvin MTS3212 Master Tube Series tube amplifier which…