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Best Australian Designed & Made Electronics Products 2024

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Best Australian Designed & Made Electronics Products 2024

We are pleased to announce that APAC Insider has selected Successful Endeavours as the category winner for Best Australian Designed & Made Electronics Products 2024 in the Australia Made Awards 2024.

Successful Endeavours - Australia Made Awards 2024 Winner - APAC Insider

Successful Endeavours – Australia Made Awards 2024 Winner – APAC Insider

This is not our first win in these awards. Previously we have been awarded:

So this year combines both aspects of the Australia Made Award program. Designed in Australia and Made in Australia. 2023 saw us opening our own Electronics Manufacturing Factory in Dandenong South as well as an expanded Electronics Design Office only 150m away.

 

In case you haven’t seen an Electronics SMT Production Line in action, here is a short video.

 

There will be a link on the APAC Insider website soon and I’ll update this post once that happens.

Australia Made Awards

Australia Made Awards

Apac Insider

APAC Insider

Successful Endeavours specialise in Electronics Design and Embedded Software Development, focusing on products that are intended to be Made In Australia. Ray Keefe has developed market leading electronics products in Australia for more than 40 years.

You can also follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

This post is Copyright © 2024 Successful Endeavours Pty Ltd

Top Programming Languages 2024

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Top Programming Languages 2024

Another year and another revue of what programmers are using. This IEEE poll has shown us what The Top Programming Languages 2024 are. Job tip – learn Python!

Top Programming Languages 2024

Top Programming Languages 2024

And the clear winner is Python which is now way ahead of everything else. But there is also a large shift from 2022 when C and C++ were higher placed. See Top Programming Languages 2022. Below is the ranking then and you can see how much Java, Javascript, Typescript and Rust have moved.

Top Programming Languages 2022

Top Programming Languages 2022

Of these programming languages, Python, C and C++ are the primary ones we use in our day to day product development. For Apps we use Flutter which is a framework built around Dart and we use a variety of things for web development but one of those is Django which is Python based.

If you are interested in how they do the ranking, Top Programming Languages Methodology goes through the process they use.

IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity

IEEE – Advancing Technology for Humanity

Past posts on this topic are listed below:

Successful Endeavours specialise in Electronics Design and Embedded Software Development, focusing on products that are intended to be Made In Australia. Ray Keefe has developed market leading electronics products in Australia for more than 40 years.

You can also follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

This post is Copyright © 2024 Successful Endeavours Pty Ltd

Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2024

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Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2024

The Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame awards are on again this year. We were finalists in the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards 2023 in the Leader in Digital and Advanced Technology category which was not part of this year’s awards. This year we didn’t make it to the finals of the Small Manufacturer category.

Finalists for the 2024 Victorian-Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards

Finalists for the 2024 Victorian-Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards

Our congratulations to those who are Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame finalists 2024 and we wish all the best for the awards. Finalists are:

  • A.W. Bell Machinery (Dandenong South)
  • ABMT Group (Cobblebank, Sunshine North, Thomastown)
  • Afnan Siddique (Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions, Clayton)
  • Alstom Transport (Ballarat, Dandenong)
  • ANCA (Bayswater North)
  • Antonio Di Vito (SYNC Industries, Laverton North)
  • Assembled Threads (North Melbourne)
  • Australian Defence Apparel (Bendigo)
  • Caitlin Crowley (Boeing Aerostructures Australia, Port Melbourne)
  • Care Essentials (North Geelong)
  • CSL (Broadmeadows, Parkville, Tullamarine)
  • Digital Mould Design (Castlemaine)
  • Farm Foods Australia (Breakwater)
  • Godfrey Hirst Australia (North Geelong, South Geelong, Breakwater)
  • Hanlon Industries (Corio)
  • Hannah Dillimore (Newform Steel Fabrication, Bayswater)
  • HealthGuard Corporation (Campbellfield)
  • Integra Systems (Broadmeadows)
  • Johanna Boland (ANCA, Bayswater North)
  • John Krueger (Krueger Transport Equipment, Derrimut)
  • Krueger Transport Equipment (Derrimut)
  • Latinka Cubitt (Catten Industries, Bayswater)
  • Levi Konnerth (A.W. Bell Machinery, Dandenong South)
  • Lockelec Rolling Stock (Braeside)
  • Luca Weber (IXOM Operations, East Melbourne)
  • McMillan Engineering Group (Dandenong South)
  • Modscape (Brooklyn)
  • Stahl Metall (Knoxfield)
  • Thomas Crugnale (Neo-Bionica, Fitzroy)
  • Victoria Harvey (HealthGuard Corporation, Campbellfield)
  • Volgren Australia (Dandenong South)

Winners will be announced at the Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards gala dinner on Wednesday 9 October at the Palladium at Crown.

To attend the gala dinner purchase your table or tickets here through the Hall of Fame webpage at Business Victoria.

Again, all the best for the finalists.

Successful Endeavours specialise in Electronics Design and Embedded Software Development, focusing on products that are intended to be Made In Australia. Ray Keefe has developed market leading electronics products in Australia for more than 40 years.

You can also follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

This post is Copyright © 2024 Successful Endeavours Pty Ltd

Electronex 2024

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Electronex 2024 – Celebrating Australian Electronics Manufacturing

This year in Sydney we are again celebrating Australian Electronics Manufacturing at Electronex 2024.

We are exhibiting at stand B22 and I will be giving 2 of the free seminars covering:

  • Selecting A Wireless Communications Technology
  • Onshoring Your Electronics Manufacturing Back To Australia

These will both be practical “how to” sessions with examples and case studies.

 

And this is a particularly significant year for us as we are still designing electronics products that are intended to be Made in Australia, but we now have a Electronics Manufacturing factory of our own. We are not trying to take business from the already existing and excellent Australian Contract Electronics Manufacturers (CEMs) but we are looking at supporting the early stage and small scale clients who don’t yet have a significant volume of business. As well as significantly improve our Electronics Prototyping capability for the R&D projects we undertake.

 

Which also means we are now signed up to the Australia Made campaign in the Australian Made and Owned category!

Australia Made And Owned logo

Australia Made And Owned

You can check out our new SMT line in action at Automated SMT PCB Assembly with a video of our new line in action.

SMT Automated Assembly close up

SMT Automated Assembly – Our own line in Action

We are hoping you can drop in and say hello to us at Stand B22 at Electronex 2024 and also see some of the other excellent Australian suppliers and manufacturers who will also be there as one of the more than 90 Electronex 2024 Exhibitors.

Electronex 2024 Banner

Electronex 2024

Successful Endeavours specialise in Electronics Design and Embedded Software Development, focusing on products that are intended to be Made In Australia. Ray Keefe has developed market leading electronics products in Australia for more than 40 years.

You can also follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

This post is Copyright © 2024 Successful Endeavours Pty Ltd

Key elements for Product Design

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Key elements for Product Design

Design Rush offer an index of service categories covering a wide range of design capabilities from mobile development, web development, product development, and a fairly comprehensive range of design and marketing services.

I was recently asked to contribute to an expert insights discussion on Product Design versus Industrial Design and found some of the other contributions quite useful.

The big take away from me is the lack of clear differentiation between terms like Design, Development, Industrial Design, Product Design, Engineering Design and… you get the idea. How can first time buyers navigate this space or tell if a particular offering covers everything they need?

If this is of interest to you then you might also find this post on the overall Product Development Process useful in navigating some of this territory.

Product Development Process

Product Development Process

Successful Endeavours specialise in Electronics Design and Embedded Software Development, focusing on products that are intended to be Made In Australia. Ray Keefe has developed market leading electronics products in Australia for more than 40 years.

You can also follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

This post is Copyright © 2024 Successful Endeavours Pty Ltd