Tag: low cost electronics manufacture

  • PCB Design For Manufacture

    Design For Manufacture Electronics products almost invariably have a Printed Circuit Board , PCB, on the inside. This is one of the most common things we do, designing the Printed Circuit Board on the inside on the product. Now designing a Printed Circuit Board so it works correctly is one…

  • Printed Electronics

    Printed Electronics – A New Roadmap The direction of Printed Electronics has taken an interesting new turn with the focus being no longer only on reducing production cost. Now the electronics industry is looking at product ideas that were previously thought to be impossible. Some examples from The Future Of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Analogue Electronics – Improving Signal Integrity

    Analogue Electronics Sometimes you come across a post elsewhere that is absolutely on the ball. When it comes to Low Cost Electronics Manufacture, Analogue Electronics Design and Analogue signal integrity, the three are closely linked. Many a product has had expensive technical band-aids added to it to cover up poor…

  • Reducing Electronics and Embedded Software Product Development Costs

    First some basic statistics that made me think about this issue a bit more: Software typically consumes 80% of the development budget. Digital Avionics Handbook and Embedded.com 80% of software projects are unsuccessful IBM   So working from the Pareto Principle it is clear that product development success and cost…

  • Reducing Electronics Manufacturing Parts Cost

    This one is both easy and straight forward to understand.   Do as much as possible in software.   But it doesn’t stop there. Do as much as possible in software at every stage of the development. Here is how that pans out: replace hardware with software that does the…