Author: H0lusr1@B5

A South-American reseller contacted us a few years ago asking about a list of products from China. They provide links to products from eBay, Alibaba, Aliexpress, Amazon or any other platform, where technical specifications are clear and there is a market price reference.

We did a research and found the manufacturers in China and negotiated a better price for our customers to be competitive.

Another advantage, besides the lower price and better quality is that we were able to consolidate in a single shipping all of their products from different manufacturers on a monthly basis. This customer keeps growing their catalog and expanding their business successfully year after year!

An old customer was in need of some special pressure sensors. He had no idea of the specs, so we assisted them on the customization of the type of sensor to manufacture. We learned from their application that the best was to use a customized pressure sensor with specific size and IP6 environmental protection. Fortunately, we contacted a company in China that can meet the requirements and supply the kind of sensor that better fitted their needs.

Customer had an old product that has specific functionality, but had no access to the source code and was currently in need of adding new features. We studied the device, using oscilloscope, logic analyzer and the user’s manual. We designed a new PCB with a modern 32-bit ARM microcontroller and implemented the code to meet all the functionalities.

Now the product has been improved twice and our customer has a state of the art product that can compete in their market niche.

Some friend from Shenzhen gave our contact to a company based in Hungary. They are a leading competitor on software products, especially for mobile phone flashing software. They had the need to have a USB hub that may help to automate the flashing process using their software. They provided some drawings about the concept of the product. We designed the product from the scratch, and worked together with them to define the requirements.

The design incorporated some additional functionality as well, even improving their original conceptual idea. We worked with their technical staff on all their validations tests and finally launched a mass production.

Their customers are very satisfied with the results and our customer is still the leading vendor of their market niche. We proudly manage the manufacturing of their USB hubs and related accessories.

Most of our projects involve some level of firmware design. One of the most interesting projects in which we developed firmware for an embedded product was when a customer came to us looking for an injection system that controls the influx of a gaseous fuel into a Diesel engine to improve its efficiency. The key feature of this project is that it must perform Real-Time calculation of the injections with as much precision as possible. This is a technological challenge that we were able to overcome. The final product designed features a performance comparable or even better than the ECUs developed by many of the leading brands.