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Welcome to the August 2005 edition of the NVSI Monthly Newsletter! We
have created this newsletter in the hope to provide our clients, partners and the
general measurement and automation industry public with updated
information on the products and services from Neo Vista System
Integrators Pty Ltd. Below is a list of what's in this issue:
NVSI Helps Australian Scientists to Test Square Kilometre Array
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System Integration Versus Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Systems
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NVSI helps Australian Scientists to
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An international consortium representing more than 15 countries
including the European Union, the USA, Australia, Canada, China,
India and South Africa has been established to research the
viability of a very large telescope array that will enable
astronomers to see the formation of the early universe, including
the emergence of the first stars. With 100 times the
sensitivity of existing telescopes, the proposed Square Kilometre
Array (SKA) will revolutionize many areas of astronomy and also make
unique contributions to basic physics, including some extreme
predictions of general relativity.
The Australia National Telescope
Facility (CSIRO) requested a system to satisfy the international
high sensitivity SKA measurement protocol and be suitably robust to
run reliably in unattended operation for weeks at a time in some of
the most remote areas of Australia. NVSI created a custom
system based primarily on a Rohde and Schwarz frequency spectrum
analyser (FSA), and a gigabit Ethernet link to a client notebook PC
running Microsoft Windows XP. Read
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System Integration Versus COTS
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Sometimes we are contacted by engineers and system managers who are
looking for an alternative solution to their measurement problems,
and often there are commercially available systems that don't quite
fit the problem, or whose costs make the process prohibitive.
It is easy to be attracted by off-the-shelf hardware and software
that have a functional fit for your application requirements and
promise easy integration. The challenge is when COTS products
are not the perfect fit for your in-house development model,
available resources or skills. The integration process for new
players can be both frustrating and expensive, paying for a system
that ends up sitting in a corner gathering dust, leaving you out of
pocket and still faced with the challenge you were trying to solve
before you purchased the products. Being able to build the
system yourself may be an attractive prospect, but this needs to be
balanced with an investigation of the risks and challenges involved
with system development. This paper was written with the
intent of dispelling some of the preconceptions and misconceptions
involved with custom integrated and commercial off-the-shelf systems
(COTS). Read
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Visit us at Automate 2005 |
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Sydney_Showground
Sydney_Olympic_Park
13th_to_15th_September
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Automate 2005 (featuring ICEX,
CIMworld
and FluidX)
is on again in Sydney this year, but now at the centrally
located Sydney Showground in Sydney Olympic Park. Automate is Australia's leading
hi-tech manufacturing and process technology exhibition,
visited by key decision-makers keen to discover the latest in
robotics & automation, process control, computers in
manufacturing, test & measurement and hydraulics & pneumatic
systems.
NVSI will again be exhibiting this
year so if you'd like to see what we're all about or you are after
ideas to help you solve your measurement, automation or control
problem, please feel free to drop by the stand and have a chat with
one of our Technical Specialists. We will be displaying demos
of some of the more tricky automation challenges that we've solved
using innovative emerging technologies, including a completely
automated spark plug measurement and spark test system demonstrating
optical inspection techniques, and distributed control including
systems created for the mining, scientific and automotive
rolling-stock industries.
NVSI will be joined by several of our
Alliance Partners, including National Instruments (Stand C47) and
Adept Electronic Solutions (Stand D31), so you can visit the people
we rely on to produce our award-winning engineering solutions.
If there's anything specific you'd
like us to bring to Automate 2005 with us or a particular topic you
like us to explore before we see you there, please feel free to contact
us.
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Our Next Issue (September 2006) |
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Stick around for our next issue, and read about:
* Meet the Staff: Matthew Rees - Technical Specialist
* Meet a Partner: Electronics Associates
* NVSI Case Study: Automated Laser Pipe Measurement
NVSI: Case Study: Rail Industry Wheelset Qualifying Machine
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