Engineering Consulting Services

All of the available services listed below are within the context of product design, development, and maintenance for equipment employing electronic, electrical, or electromechanical systems.

• Systems analysis at the product conception stage
• Product technical feasibility studies
• Advanced technology research to find solutions to difficult leading-edge problems
• Vendor research to locate and qualify vendors to provide advanced technology components
• Technical project audits and verification of proposed technical solutions
• Systems architecture formulation
• Generation of functional specifications
• Technical presentations concerning product designs and architectures
• Product design and inventing
• Circuit board design
• Analysis of existing systems
• Development of machine control simulations
• Upgrades to existing systems
• Generation of user manuals and service manuals
• Technical training of in-house employees

The specific types of electronic and electrical systems for which we are most experienced in the design, development, and analysis are the following:

• Imaging systems
• Signal processing systems
• Embedded machine control systems
• Assembly language software
• PLC-based machine control systems
• PLC software design and implementation
• Motor drive and control systems of all types
• Signal interfaces and signal isolation
• Instrumentation and data acquisition systems
• Man-machine interfaces (MMIs) for control systems of all types
• Circuit board design
• Backplane design
• Card cage design
• DC power systems
• AC power distribution systems (up to 1200A)
• Electrical systems packaging design including thermal considerations
• UL 508A and CE compliance for control panel design

General Areas of Expertise

We have expertise in all areas of electronics and machine controls systems design and development. We also have the ability to solve all types of existing electrical problems, primarily by employing scientific methods to systematically find the causes of specific problems. Whether designing a new electronic system, or correcting problems with existing systems, we apply sound engineering principles and use the most appropriate components and technologies available to solve your engineering problem in the most economical manner.

Specific Areas of Expertise

Our specific areas of expertise are in the printing and web handling industries. All types of printing equipment and web handling machines fit within our scope, including sophisticated electronic imaging systems as well as PLC machine controls and vintage machines with relay control panels. We have expertise in all aspects of electronic imaging systems development and machine controls development in the printing and post-press industries. Electronic non-impact printing systems development is a very specific area of our expertise, which by it's very nature includes various types of imaging systems and machine control systems, and therefore necessitates a broad range of experience directly applicable in many industries.