Category: Embedded Software
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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 component of a Product Strategy…
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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 The second list is a…
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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 like: Brian Tracy Tony Robbins…
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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 Design that can be Battery…
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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 Manufacturing capital of Australia and…
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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 can be most improved by…
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Niche Electronics Manufacture – Ideally Done in Australia
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…
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Electronics Manufacture – How to Select a Microcontroller
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…
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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 same function verify operation using…
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Analogue Electronics – a Surprising Way to Extend Battery Life
Today we look at one of the Project Priorities Perspectives in action. This was a case where performance was the most important factor and so minimising cost or time to market was a lower priority in the this Electronics Manufacture project. In this case the PCB and electronics were Manufactured In Australia. We were…