Author: Ray Keefe
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Melbourne’s South East Business Awards 2011
Melbourne’s South East Business Awards Finalists 2011 In Melbourne’s South East Business of the Year Finalists we let you know that we were nominated as finalists for the inaugural Melbourne’s South East Business Awards. Last night we attended the awards and found out the rest of the details. We were selected as finalists…
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Plastic Electronics
Plastic Semiconductors In a previous post on Printed Electronics we looked at new product opportunities that were being created using new fabrication techniques for semiconductors. But advances are also being made that benefit both conventional or new product concepts. In The Plastic Processor we get an insight into how you can make a microprocessor using…
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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 Printed Electronics shows previously unanticipated…
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PCB Design could be changed forever
Carbon Nanotubes replace Solder Pads Recent breakthroughs in nanotechnology could change the way Printed Circuit Boards, PCBs, are made and this could start happening soon. If you either the Design PCBs or Manufacture PCBs then you will want to keep up with this new technology that uses Nanotape PCB Pads. Here is a picture…
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Paper Electronics
Paper Electronics Devices Recent breakthroughs at Harvard Labs have led to the creation of a paper based accelerometer that matches the sensitivity of silicon based MEMS accelerometers so common in air bags and the Nintendo Wii system. The full article can be read on the IEEE website at Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices. …
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Alternative Energy Manufacturing Opportunities in Australia
This post is a summary of an article I wrote for the AMTIL Australian Manufacturing Technology magazine. And here is a picture taken of a Solar Systems concentrated Solar Power Dish. We were involved in software upgrades to the dish controller. It produced 114KWhr of power on an August day at Fosterville, near Bendigo…
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Melbournes South East Business of the Year Finalists
It is only a month into 2011 Calendar Year and we are very excited to announce that Successful Endeavours are finalists for Melbourne’s South East Business Of The Year. We are also finalists for Small Business Of The Year. The entry into this award came as a result of our being Casey Business of…
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Victorian Engineering Entrepreneur reveals Business Success Strategy
Victorian Engineer thanks Sydney Business Mentor Today’s post is a thank you to Dr Marc Dussault and his team at Exponential Programs in Sydney. We have been been part of the Business Mastery Platinum Program and many of the results you see are because of that. Marc has not tried to make me a better…