Furnace instrumentation
A temperature sensor rated for 1200 °C mounted inside the cupellation furnace itself, streaming the full heating profile of every batch rather than a single spot reading taken by hand.
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Innovations
Things that did not exist until someone needed them.
Every system on this page started as a problem a customer could not solve with something off the shelf. These are in production, not in a lab notebook.
Process monitoring
Watching a 1200 °C furnace from a phone.
Gold assaying is a process where the integrity of the result depends on the integrity of the process. We instrumented the process.
Centralised furnace monitoring
Every assaying centre reporting into one dashboard, with statistics on time-on-temperature and alerts when a furnace runs outside its qualified window.
Whole-process audit trail
Cameras, weighing scales and furnace sensors tied to one record, closing the loop that previously made tampering hard to detect in the assaying chain.
Desktop, tablet and mobile in sync
The same live view on every device, so a supervisor responsible for many centres does not have to be sitting at one of them.
AI & computer vision
Making unconnected equipment connected.
A large amount of working test equipment has no data port and never will. Rather than replace it, we read its display the way a technician does — and then do what a technician cannot, which is do it every time, log it, and timestamp it.
- Weighing scale monitoring as a retrofit on existing equipment
- XRF analyser and instrument display reading for quality management and validation
- Utility meter reading from a customer's own phone camera
- Tamper resistance through meter identity verification
Identity & surveillance
Proof of who did what, and when.
Where a test result carries commercial or statutory weight, the identity of the operator matters as much as the reading. We integrate biometrics and two-factor authentication into the test applications themselves, and pair them with centralised multi-site CCTV.
- Biometric login integrated into test and QM applications
- Two-factor authentication for privileged operations
- Centralised CCTV monitoring across multiple sites
- Event capture tied to the process record
Energy & condition monitoring
Reading a machine's health from its current signature.
Current and acceleration sensors on a 3-axis vertical milling machine, sampled through a gateway into a database, produce a signature distinct enough to tell face milling from pocket milling from drilling — and to show tool wear before the part goes out of tolerance.
The same approach extends to motors, air conditioners and any rotating or cyclic load.
Have a problem with no off-the-shelf answer?
Most of the work on this page started that way. Describe it and we will tell you whether it is buildable and roughly what it takes.