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DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT:

Lee-Dickens has more than 40 years' experience in the design and development of hardware and software based products for industrial, aeronautical and process control applications. This experience is demonstrated by our variety of standard products.

Project Management

The essential ingredients for the success of any project are project management, quality control and configuration management. Based on Management-by-Objectives, critical path evaluation and the experience of our staff, we have developed project procedures and evaluation systems which are designed to ensure that timely decisions are made based on accurate information, thus ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Continuing input from our customers, achieved through regular project meetings, ensures their active participation in our decision making process and maintains their interests and objectives in full view throughout the project life cycle.

Engineering

Our hardware design team have many years experience of analogue and digital hardware design. The team maintain pace with technological advances using CADSurface-mount assembly facilities, and provide specialist interfaces and housings as and when they are required.

If the product is to be microprocessor based or require an accompanying Software package then our in-house software team can provide the necessary expertise.

Hardware and Software development is carried out in accordance with procedures laid down in our Design Engineering Practices & Procedures (DEP&P) Manual which is approved to ISO9001 and the software requirement of ISO900-03 Tick-IT.

Production Facilities

Manufacturing and production have become more and more automated over the years and our facilities are no exception. We now have computer aided component placement machines, cropping machines, flow-soldering machines and de-flux baths. However, there is still a requirement for experienced operators at hand soldering components. Our forte lies in the small batch build (10 to 200 units per month) of high quality PCB's/assemblies.

The Sub-Contract manufacturing experience of Lee-Dickens includes:

HVAC:
Design and Build of remote HVAC controller boards for monitoring and controlling heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, assembly into plastic mouldings, functional and soak testing.

Power Generation:
Sub-Contract assembly of turbine generator control boards to principles design. Build work including component procurement and pcb population.

Mining:
Design and Build of remote Machinery Health Monitoring equipments. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, assembly into sheet steel enclosures and functional testing.

Water Quality:
Design and Build of Chemical Dosing Control equipment. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, assembly into moulded housing and functional testing.

Oil Industry:
Design and Build of an Intrinsically Safe Computer for use on Drilling Rigs. The original design work was carried out by others and Lee-Dickens have progressed it to a second generation product. The new products have been put through BASEEFA approvals for IS equipment. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, assembly into special sheet steel enclosures and functional testing.

Level Measurement:
Design and Build of a Communications Multiplexer for remote monitoring of level measurement equipment. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, and functional testing.

Battery Cycle Testing:
Design and Build of test equipment to cycle (charge and discharge) batteries. Build work including component procurement, PCB population, mounting in a sheet steel enclosure and, functional and soak testing.

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