We offer turn key product development to help you take your seedling-idea from design through prototyping, short run pilot tests, production and in to the marketplace.
Having a dream product idea is fantastic. Working out how to run with that idea from paper sketch, through production and getting it market ready is a daunting prospect. We have many years of experience developing successful products and are therefore in a position to manage this process for you.
We have worked extensively with clients in the steel and job-shopping industry for many years. Long term contracts have included working on site with clients to design, fabricate and commission plant equipment.
Very few devices produced today are without embedded microcontrollers - Ours are no different. We make extensive use of Freescale (previously Motorola) 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers for embedded control. We have written a custom real-time operating system capable of running on even the smallest 8-pin micro. Code development is done in a mixture of C and assembler, whichever is appropriate for your application.
For more powerful devices that require wireless connectivity to the internet we use Wavecom's Wireless CPU range running OpenAT.
Inter-device networking is achieved using Modbus over serial (RS-232 and RS-485) and TCP/IP. All of our embedded systems are capable of running the Modbus application protocol.