Electronics Manufacture Archives - Page 10 of 11

Successful Electronics Needs a Successful Name

Sep 9, 2009

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in Analog Electronics, Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Made in Australia, Technology

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 like: Brian Tracy Tony Robbins…

The Internet Turns 40 – Happy Birthday

Sep 4, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Technology

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 Design that can be Battery…

Electronics Manufacture Shines in Melbourne

Sep 1, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Awards, Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Project Priorities Perspective

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 Manufacturing capital of Australia and…

2009 EDN Innovation Awards Finalist

Aug 17, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Analog Electronics, Electronics Awards, Electronics Manufacture, Project Priorities Perspective

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 you know a bit more…

The Future of Low Cost Electronics Manufacture

Aug 11, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Manufacture, Project Priorities Perspective

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 I still enjoy very much.…

Analogue Electronics – Improving Signal Integrity

Aug 3, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Analog Electronics, Electronics Manufacture

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 underlying Analogue Electronics Design. So…

Reducing Electronics and Embedded Software Product Development Costs

Jul 27, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Product Development

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 can be most improved by…

Niche Electronics Manufacture – Ideally Done in Australia

Jul 22, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Design, Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Made in Australia, Product Development

So what is Niche Electronics Manufacture about? Well, Niche implies it is aimed at a small and specific market segment rather than a large and universal segment. Some examples might help here: specialist medical devices or patient sample handling equipment Very Early Smoke Detecting Apparatus in wall cable tracing equipment active RFID with long battery…

Electronics Manufacture – How to Select a Microcontroller

Jun 12, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software

When it comes to selecting a microcontroller for Electronics Manufacture, the field to choose from is quite large. And while there is no one right answer to this, there are some basic steps to take to ensure you are using the right core component in your latest Electronics Development Project. For this post I…

Reducing Electronics Manufacturing Parts Cost

May 21, 2009

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Ray Keefe

in Electronics Design, Electronics Manufacture, Embedded Software, Made in Australia

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 same function verify operation using…

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