How Can We Help You?
If you are looking to develop or improve a product with electronics and software in, you are probably in the right place. Give us a ring, or drop us an email to arrange a chat. We really enjoy learning about the exciting things people are up to and have a range of experience and contacts which might be relevant to you. We enjoy meeting new people, finding out about the challenges in new industries and keeping current with the best practices. If you have a problem or are developing a clever solution, get in touch and see if we have any insights in exchange for a tour of your factory or lab and a cup of coffee. If you are impressed, we like to provide fixed price quotes for development work – you get the price we agreed, we put the hours in to make it happen. We have facilities to economically undertake lots of prototyping and development work in-house and a network of trusted manufacturers and specialists when required.
Who We Are
Our Chief Engineer is Kurt Morgan CEng MIET BA MEng 1st Cantab.
He’s a chartered engineer with 20+ years of industrial experience, developing Electronics and Software, starting in defence R&D, working for a consulting firm, as a contractor and for the last 8 years working on projects for Morgan Electronics clients. He has a good grasp of fundamental engineering (applying science, maths and industrial standards). He particularly enjoys following standards for reliability and safety, when he isn’t working on low-power wireless sensors and using solar power.
Who We Work With
We work with a range of companies – some with their own R&D departments who outsource engineering design and manufacture, some who manufacture their own products but don’t have need for software and electronics people full time. Sometimes we work for large companies who need extra bandwidth without distracting their engineering teams from their core activities and on occasion, we work with consultants who need a bit of specialist help to deliver their own clients’ projects. Feel free to reach out to us, maybe we can find a convenient way to work with you, or perhaps we know someone who could.
What We Do
Electronic Product Development – We are experienced at developing products to comply with standards such as ISO 60335 and ISO 61010 to make UKCA/CE marked products and working with external assessors including UL. We are experienced in EMC compliance and have in-house equipment for EMC pre-testing to minimise test-house time. We try to find out requirements upfront and manage requirements through projects, to reduce risk: understanding the operational context of products, making products work for users (useability) and planning for what might go wrong upfront (failure modes and effects analysis).
PCBs – We can develop and update PCBs for your products, sourcing tested and working PCBs for you, or providing you with an industry-standard manufacturing pack for your own manufacturer. We help clients to reduce costs and to work around component shortages. We often work with companies who have started with a PLC or a collection of off-the-shelf modules and want to make a more economical, compact and reliable product. We have a lot of experience and equipment for assembling and testing PCBs with microcontrollers and RF transceivers, particularly for battery-powered applications. We have experience of designing low voltage (mains) products, particularly for switching and monitoring.
Software Development – We have a lot of experience of developing embedded software (and firmware for FPGAs/CPLDs). We use the full range of tools and standards (and our knowledge of electronics) to make software reliable; including good processes, static analysis and unit testing. We have experience following industry standards for functional safety and quality.
Research – As engineers, we normally use well-understood science. On occasions, we have to figure out how to operate and control things in real-world applications that don’t quite fit with the datasheet. We are named as inventors on 4 patents. We have a particular interest in flexible PCBs. We have lab and workshop facilities and can get a handle on difficult technical challenges, using maths and science. We can do time-boxed research or a series of incrementally improving prototypes to manage research or investigations into new techniques in a low-risk way.
Problem Solving – We are logical and rigorous. Engineering problem solving isn’t always hard – most of the time, if there’s one problem, there’s a way of finding it by dividing the system in half until it’s obvious. Then, there are other problems. Whether you need fresh thinking, or a meticulous change-only-one-thing trial and error, we might be able to help. Many of the products we design have sensors built in that can detect or infer faulty or failing components and which can identify problems that can’t be replicated in the lab. These are especially useful when first trialing new products out in the real world.