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What is in the EM's Portfolio?

Viewing from 30,000 feet, the EM iterates through specification, test planning, design, manufacture, testing and review until satisfaction is reached. Satisfaction varies because client needs vary, e.g., some need prototype services only whereas others require volume manufacture. These levels and all those in between are in the EM’s gift. 

Usually clearly understood but often overlooked is the business angle. Projects can easily drift if the following key elements aren’t systematically managed:

Costs, timescales and risks start being assessed at project inception and are re-visited at every progress meeting. None are static and the presumption that they are is often the precursor to frustrated expectations. 

The EM's Specialist Markets

Medical applications ranging from advanced optical treatments using UV, ECGs, anaesthesia (mainly ventilator design), electronic prosthetics, blood plasma filtering electronics are some of the products encountered. The EM and medical product development are very comfortable bedfellows. 

Entrepreneurial activity is very commonly focused on bringing a novel or nuanced technology to market. This invariably involves concept prototyping and often feasibility studies, both of which are bread and butter to the EM.

Most niche markets involve test/measurement and control. The EM can engage with this on all levels, for example, engaging on the control of bespoke motor and its application or the details of test equipment such as lock in amplifiers, tensile measurement systems and safety critical monitoring and control.

Extremely demanding markets are space and oil and gas that all too often involve operating at the edge and beyond the specification of components, and a non-trivial level of mechanical and physical application is demanded. The EM has experience in such markets and is more than happy to engage on such projects.

 

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The EM's Specialist Technologies

The EM has decades of experience in a very wide range of technologies that are to diverse to cover in short paragraphs, but particular ones that have repeatedly landed on our doorstep follow below.

ARM cortex, microchip PIC and NXP minicomputer applications all fit into a broadly embedded field in which the EM has developed and implement successful products. Embedded development is a core technology for the EM.

The essence of any electronic product is its sensors. Understanding the sensor performance and application requirement are the key to successful development. Ultrasonic, electromagnetic, optical, pressure (solid, gas and liquid), flow, temperature are all types regularly encountered and dealt with at the EM.

Since it is so often required, control systems involving motors of all types (ac, dc, bldc, stepper) are bread butter for the EM. It is recommended that the specialist testimonials further down the page are viewed if a relevant application is being considered. 

Lastly, but very important and topical in the modern world, is AI.. The EM is expert in the development of image recognition for medical pathologies and machine learning for applications having low computing power and memory. Click ‘Tell me More’ below to learn about our lost cost machine learning AI chip (LSQML000). 

The EM's Specialist Capabilities

No aspect of electronics design is shunned by us, but obviously we have specialisms as follows:

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Success Stories

The essence, core and prerequisite for a successful development is: People, People, People. Doubtless trite, but there must be a mutual trust without which problems of all types develop. Design routes involving specification, mutual approval and action are tenable, but the deepest trust is defined by developers that spontaneously act on a client’s instruction with the confidence that the costs of unexpected findings will be covered. The foregoing is optimal and demands integrity from all parties. 

Some Tech SME and entrepreneurial developments the EM’s proud to promote in this light are (click each for more information):

Automated Domestic Fire Protection

Plumis was delighted with the prototyping work that resulted in its ground breaking Automist system – a sprinkler that works from a domestic tap via heat sensors. ‘We used it thousands of times without so much as a glitch during prototyping’. 

Livestock Control via Automated Gating

Automated gates to reduce the need for farmers to jump in and out of vehicles and electrification of said gate to control livestock movement. ‘Delivery including covering the problematic issue of dealing with different animals – sheep/otters need a different shock level to cows’.

Obsolescence Control - Watchman Radar

The trouble with good systems is that no one wants to change them. The Watchman radar for air traffic control is such a system, but it is decades old and its componentry in terms of availability reflects this. The EM redeveloped the optical section of the design with re-specification of optic fibre. ‘Interactive and competent support throughout’.





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