Egston is an electronic manufacturing company based in Austria that produces high-quality inductive components such as transformers and inductor coils, antennas, cable systems for the automotive and other industries.
Location:
Austria
Industry:
Manufacturing
Electronic Manufacturing
Partnership period:
January 2011 - January 2012
Client background
Client background
Client’s goalsClient’s goals
Egston manufactures a wide array of hardware for the automotive industry including transformers, sensor coils, cable systems etc. It also has a big line of power supplies meeting various needs and market standards. Since the new norms and regulations on electromagnetic emission and efficiency were about to be issued in Europe, the client needed to update their whole line of power supplies. Egston has many kinds of units of different voltage, functions, and efficiency, thus they had to meet a tight deadline and required to engage external resources.
Therefore, Egston cooperated with N-iX engineers on the hardware development of one of their lines of power supplies. They provided the team with the specifications and standards the device had to comply with. Since the project required rigorous testing involving a lot of equipment, the project had to be done fully on site.
ChallengesChallenges
The major challenge of the project lied in reaching all the standards and testing all the parameters of the PSU. The engineers tested various kinds of voltage, radiation, electromagnetic emission etc.
The team was able to deliver a working prototype is a short timeframe but the challenge was in ensuring the best efficiency of the device, while maintaining the necessary parameters. Our specialists had to cope with the multidimensional multilevel task because when you change one indicator, others change too. Thus the engineers performed over 500 experiments only with electromagnetic emission.
ImplementationImplementation
N-iX embedded engineers designed a line of power supplies comprising 5 types of units from 5 to 54 volts. They developed the board, the scheme and the construction of the transformer.
The programmers developed the hardware on site, selected the parameters to meet the required standards. Therefore, the device meets all the existing norms in the world including Europe, the USA, Japan, Israel etc. The power supply is compatible with any socket in the world – from 110 to 250 volts. Also, in all those combinations the device meets all the requirements including temperature, efficiency, electricity consumption etc.
Value delivered by N-iXValue delivered
N-iX professionals established effective communication with Egston core team and completed all the tasks of the project. Our engineers developed the line of power supplies meeting all the international standards in a limited timeframe. They carefully studied all the industry norms and documentation, performed rigorous testing of the hardware, and thus delivered the product fully ready for production.
- creating a set of power supplies to cover a wide range of voltages (from 5V to 24V)
- certification by the strictest international standards (USA, Europe, Israel, Japan) for high efficiency, electromagnetic conducted and radiated emission of power supplies
- designed for worldwide use with input voltage from 90V to 264V, from 47Hz to 63Hz
- developed the board, the scheme and the construction of the transformer
- onsite development, verification and certification work to meet the requirements
Services:
Hardware Development, Hardware Testing
Expertise delivered:
Dedicated Development Team, Software QA & Testing,
Software Product Development, Embedded Software Development
Technologies:
Schematic Design, Board Layout,
Pulsonix, LeCroy Waverunner LT264, Rohde&Schwarz ES SCAN Athena
30MHz-1GHz,
Selective microvoltmeter,
Precision power meter etc.
Compliance
with international standards (USA, Europe, Israel, Japan)
Covering
a wide range of voltages
Meeting
a tight deadline
Hardware
development
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