Industrial Test Systems

Analog and Digital Control of Furnaces. We wrote most of the LabVIEW and the LabVIEW drivers for the NuDAMs.

This project was to integrate the various material testing systems in a QA Test Lab that use manual instruments, into one complete company wide intranet enabled solution.

The test instruments consist of weigh scales, shear and tensile strength machines, also crushing machines and a variety of other custom devices.

The final solution involved taking the old DOS programs previously being used on the testing machines and writing a modern GUI interface version in LabVIEW.

In doing this work the old instruments were converted to the equivalent or better of the modern models, with a PC controlling, doing data collection and analysis.

The LabVIEW programs are connected up to a central SQL database which offers the users both a “request booking system” for work and also being able to “store the results” of the testing done on each request.

Intranet based reporting using Crystal Reports, can then be done on the information in the central SQL Database.

MasTec has in house expertise in Pocket PC software development. We are using gadgets like the IPAQ to develop interfaces and comms intelligence for Wireless solutions.

Retrofit’s for Industrial Computers. We use our extensive connections in the Industrial PC markets to install new high performance SBC Intel Windows based boards in older chassis to bring them back to a modern OS situation.

Production line image capture and dimensioning inspector. This is a very easy to use system for camera inspection of precision products. The camera is a PAL v camera with a 200X zoom ability. The software is able to capture, do gauging and also save the data as bit files or jpg for sending via email compressed. Very useful for factory settings and sending data (pictures) back to the design or QA teams .

Batch Weighing System stainless steel Nema 4. High precision automated batch scale system that is mounted in stainless steel to Nema 4. Data is accumulated in a localise micro and sent back via ethernet to a server.

Automatic Test Equipment Multi-Tasking Board Testers. Multi-board tester, all scheduling and testing is independent of the other tests running, with fault trapping and pass fail indication.

Disc Brake Measurement and Wear Testing system. A very sophisticated gauging system with resolutions to sub micron levels. Driven entirely by a PC feed with multiple sensors, gauges.

Connects any manufacturers DAQ Card. 5B Series analogue conditioners and/or OPTO 22 backplane digital isolators or SSR modules Also special rack systems for DSP and DAQ connections

Complete test system. These New Zealand IANZ certified test systems are running in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia laboratories. These unique test systems, have a measurement system consisting of many long stroke linear gauges, accurate to and repeatable to .01 mm, a highly accurate temperature measurement system, an equally accurate manometer and high speed cyclic pressure measurement system. Sophisticated algorithms allow calculation of air leakage, structural stability and many other window, door, facade, door parameters.

A Complete Calibrated test system. This unique test system, that conforms to AUS/NZ Standards, has a measurement system consisting linear gauges, a highly accurate force measurement system, an equally accurate manometer and high speed cyclic pressure measurement system.

Agricultural Weighing and Analysis systems: Measurement Computing DAQ and LabVIEW

The project was to Integrate the various manual systems being used by the R+D department into one complete solution. The solution involved upgrading the programs currently being used on the testing machine into LabView. These were then connected up to a central database which offered both a request booking system for work and also being able to store the results of the testing done on each request. Intranet based reporting can then be done on the information in the Database. A LabView application was also created as the main interface between the user and the database and enables users to perform the majority of the functions offered by the system.

The project is designed to monitor the a Radio system, more specifically the Radio Voter modules can Vote which transceiver will be used to transmit the signal around the radio channel. The software monitor IO from the voter. Is anything should go wrong with a channel the program is able to see the live status of the IO of each voter on a channel and is therefore able to determine where the problem is occurring. They can then use the software to isolate that particular voter and the channel can then resume operation, obviously without that section of the channel not operating. So in short the project allows them to fault find there radio channels and then to isolate the problem.

• 32 Channel Windows Testing system — Maybe the largest most complex window tester in the world!!
• Mitsubishi Variable Speed Drive LabVIEW driver. Maybe first in the world??!!
• AC Power Monitoring and Analysis system, measuring to the 20th Harmonic
• Remote Low Power Micro based monitoring and control system linked to a central computer via IP
• Wall Testing system, three stories high– Test Walls, Windows etc
• Earth Satellite Monitoring and Logging system upgrade
• Gas Turbine Monitoring system
• Large Channel Count Digital I/O control system for Transceiver systems — remotely controlled over TCP and CDMA
• Meat Tenderising measurement and control systems
• Country wide intranetted, SQL DB and Crystal Report Laboratory QA System
• Copper Tube Mill extruder and wider control system
• Roof Testing system
• New Window Testing system
• Field Portable Acoustic/Audio data logger and analyser
• Factory/machine performance data collection system
• Rack mount DC power system with Distribution circuits
• Road performance analysis and data collection system
• Refit and refurbish a legacy ISA PC system for a Satellite data system