FlexLOG
Project Leader: Graeme Bowyer
Client: Publicly Available

Aimed squarely at industries including environmental monitoring, medical and pharmaceutical, core R&D, mining, furnace monitoring, ovens, and standards appliance testing, FlexLOG was created to easily connect to a wide range of sensors, and log to a variety of formats.  The unique plug-in style architecture of FlexLOG creates a fully flexible environment, that makes the addition of future models and code trivial.

C.A.M.S.
Project Leader: Christopher Relf
Client: Publicly Available

High repeatability of component measurements is now a practical reality, with the NVSI Component Analysis Measurement System (CAMS): a fully automated non-contact measurement system, CAMS is the most accurate and repeatable measurement system of its type in the world.  Motorized caddy sample loading, an in-built NIST-traceable 1,560 point target for calibration, and a highly intuitive user interface mean making measurements with CAMS is simple, error free and fully traceable.

The Alphachron(tm) System
Project Leader: Laurent Raynal
Client: CSIRO Exploration & Mining

Uranium-helium geochronology is a highly sensitive method of radiometric age dating that can be used to determine the thermal history of the Earth's crust, and the CSIRO is developing applications based on the U-Pb and (U+Th)-He decay schemes to determine the thermal histories of mineral belts and petroleum basins.  NVSI was approached to create a turnkey solution to tie several hardware technologies together in order to help develop R&D laboratory experimentation into a professional, commercially robust, industry-focused integrated and compact system.

Large Environmental Chamber
Project Leader: Liam Granger
Client: National Measurements Institute

Part of the National Measurement Institute pattern approval testing involves the use of temperature and humidity controlled environmental chambers.  This project relates to a chamber which in extended form has a volume of 34 square meters, and temperature setpoints across the chamber were achieved to an accuracy of +/- 0.1K (an order of magnitude of improvement over the previous system), and relative humidity (RH) to +/-1%.

50T Load Cell Compliance Tester
Project Leader: Laurent Raynal
Client: National Measurements Institute

The NMI perform pattern approval type testing on measuring instruments used for trade purposes in Australia.  Part of this process involves the use of a 50T Load Cell Measurement System, with two temperature controlled chambers, used to test and calibrate third party load cells.  The NVSI solution included a general improvement to the load cell testing system and the environmental control parameters, with database control and comprehensive data logging feature, which proved impossible with currently available off-the-shelf components.

Automated Object Inspection System
Project Leader: Alex Gouliaev
Client: Undisclosed

A leading New Zealand manufacturing company contracted NVSI to provide a flexible and cost effective vision-based non-destructive method of detecting coarse defects on various populated Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs).  NVSI created a proof of concept software package that performed vision analysis using low-cost, commercially available technology, including Ethernet communication, IEEE-1394 Firewire(tm) cameras and the National Instruments Compact Vision System with a real-time operating system.