COMMON APPLICATION TYPES

Design Validation

Across many industries, product prototypes need be validated against detailed requirement specifications before being put into production. Design validation processes can be very intensive and can generate large amounts of data that requires rapid processing to provide results. Valuable engineering resources and specialised facilities are often needed to perform the design validation tasks.

Because of the demands of validation testing, there is often a requirement for automation of both the test process and the post processing of the raw data, to extract performance information. Test systems may need to be rapidly deployed in order to meet tight product development time-scales, but at the same time be highly configurable and reliable.

By utilizing the latest COTS hardware technology, coupled with standard test software platforms, including NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand, Simplicity AI are able to rapidly provide automated solutions for the design validation process. On-site development and support services ensure that any change requirements can be rapidly delivered.

Automated Manufacturing Test

Quality demands from customers, increased levels of regulation and more sophisticated products, have all contributed to the requirement for automated product testing. Simplicity AI have work with customers in industries including aerospace, defence and telecoms, to provide complete hardware and software solutions for ATE within a production environment.

Automated Test Services

Simplicity AI are accredited experts in the development of software for automated test. By using industry standard software platforms, such as NI LabVIEW and NI TestStand, combined with the Tequra product suite, Simplicity AI can rapidly develop and commission full test coverage solutions.

Automated Test Products

Tequra is a fully featured software suite for automated manufacturing test from Simplicity AI. Capabilities cover 4 areas, requirements management, a rapid development framework, deployment & validation, and results analysis.

Process Monitoring & Control

Industries are moving away from using manual operator control and mechanical instrumentation to modern computer controlled systems. Simplicity AI have worked with a diverse range of customers, to provide bespoke automatic control and monitoring systems.

1. Compressor Test Cell Example

Data Acquisition (DAQ)

Simplicity AI has a wide range of experience in developing custom software and hardware solutions for acquiring, storing and analysing information from sensors or signals. By integrating COTS signal conditioning and DAQ hardware with software developed on industry standard platforms such as NI LabVIEW, advanced custom solutions can be rapidly deployed.

Services for data aquisition can range from complete supply of turn-key software and hardware, to development of custom software only, or just providing support for an existing system. The Simplicity AI engineering team has skills in system hardware specification, electrical design, equipment build and commissioning. Extensive software expertise at Simplicity AI can supply customers with advanced custom software for data capture, logging and analysis.

Solution Examples

1. Moment of Inertia Test Example
2. Rugged Offshore Datalogger Example
3. Synchrotron Beam Loss Example

Test Data Management & Analysis

Modern data acquisition and automated test systems, allow measurement and test result data to be rapidly gathered. However without a well defined management strategy for the data, its value to a business cannot be exploited. After carefully listening to its customers requirements, Simplicity AI have developed a standardised database structure to allow efficient storage and retrival of complex production data.

Rapid analysis of measurement results is often required within both production and development environments. However although powerful off the shelf software tools exist for this purpose, they often do not seemlessly integrate with data acquisition and data management software. Simplicity AI have created standard analysis and reporting software to efficiently perform this task.