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Test ancillaries
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Measurement
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Services
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Miscellaneous
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Site Updated
14 June 2006
Company profile
In brief
Facilities
Areas of expertise
Customer special requirements
Customers
Product areas
International customer base
In brief
Si-Plan Electronics Research Ltd
- was established in 1977
- operates a certified ISO 9001:2000 quality system
- is at the forefront of microchip application
- applies electronics/mechanics in research, design, development and manufacturing processes
- has wide experience in 'one-off' manufacture to customer requirements in addition to the standard product range
- works with government establishments, universities, public and private companies worldwide in the aerospace, agricultural, automotive, medical and pharmaceutical sectors
- is experienced in providing turn-key solutions
- has a total in-house facility from design to manufacture.
Facilities
Customers' requirements are developed from concept through to finished article by Si-Plan Electronics Research Ltd personnel in departments including
- Mechanical design and drawing office, using the latest Computer Aided Design systems (Pro/Engineer; Cosmos FEA analysis; Working Model 3D simulation package).
- Software development(control, monitoring, display and data logging programmes)
- Electronics design and manufacture
- Testing and calibration
- Mechanical engineering (including hydraulics and pneumatics) with CNC machining, welding and fabrication
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Si-Plan's purpose-built 17,000 square foot factory in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
Areas of expertise
Si-Plan Electronics Research Ltd has facilities to design, develop and manufacture PC-based machines with hydraulic, pneumatic, electric motor and electromagnetic actuation for development and production test systems.
Customer special requirements
Si-Plan Electronics Research Ltd has a history of building special rigs to customer requirements. The company is able to carry over this service to its standard product range, giving a flexibility to meet the needs of each customer - and in-house CAD systems and CNC machining mean a realistic delivery time will be achieved.
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This multi-axis steering column test rig was designed to accomplish the customer's test specifications. It employs pneumatic actuators and electronic drives, The rig is computer controlled through specially-written software, Sequences of movements, loads, speeds etc can be specified for a test, with continuous data logging to CSV files. |
Product areas
Testing Equipment
A range of servo-pneumatic and servo-hydraulic fatigue test machines with capacities from 5kN up to 1MN. Non destructive testing equipment for in-service monitoring of metal fatigue. Endurance testing equipment, eg motor vehicle clutch endurance rigs, brake testing rigs, steering joint test rigs, vehicle window winding rig, artificial limb testing machines, aircraft PCU test rigs, breathing simulators. Product quality assurance testing equipment eg medical inhaler drug dispensing.
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| 5kN servo-pneumatic benchtop test machine | 10kN servo-hydraulic benchtop test machine | 50kN servo hydraulic floor standing test machine | Prosthetic foot test machine with two pneumatic actuators |
Servo-controller and data acquisition unit.
A powerful, value for money solution for machine control and data acquisition. Control for dynamic fatigue and tensile testing. Software suite running on Windows® platform with DPMs. XY graph, XT graph and logger.
Software
Specially written control and monitoring software for Windows platforms using LabView, LabWindows, C and C++.
Actuators
Servo-pneumatic actuators (range 2kN to 10kN) Servo-hydraulic actuators (range 5kN to 1MN)
Customer-specified projects
Si-Plans wide range of expertise and facilities enable it to respond to customers specifications for one-off and novel projects.
Special Purpose Transducers
Innovative application of capacitance-based measuring systems in non-contacting displacement transducers; ultra low pressure transducers; load cells; room temperature and high temperature extensometers. Strain gauge, torque transducers and load cells.
Transducer Signal Conditioning Equipment
Platinum resistance thermometers, thermocouple, straingauge, piezo electric, differential inductance, differential capacitance, photo electric and ultrasonic.
Analogue Electronic Equipment
Including temperature measurement and control, electro pneumatic control, electro hydraulic control, electric motor control, resonant system control and high power amplifiers.
Digital Equipment
Including panel meters, thermometers, tachometers, temperature measuring, timers, telephone test equipment and servo controllers.
Microprocessor Systems
Including single board computers, random access memory boards, read only memory boards, digital/analogue converter boards, data acquisition and computer based control systems.
Software
Specially written suite of monitoring and control software running in RISC OS for the new generation of ARM-based systems, including analogue-digital control, digital-analogue control slider, data logger, digital input/output, DPMs, waveform generator, XY plotter.
International customer base
Si-Plan Electronics Research Ltd's products are in use in the UK and
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Korea
- Netherlands
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- USA
Customers
Customers include
- Aeronautical Development Agency, India
- Automotive Products Plc
- AP Racing
- AstraZeneca AB (Sweden)
- Beakbane Ltd
- BOS Automotive Products UK
- British Rail Research
- British Aerospace
- British Alcan Conductors: Alcan Speciality Tubes
- Burman Hi-Ton International
- Cadbury Ltd
- Capro
- Chas A Blatchford and Sons Ltd
- Department of Health, Medical Devices Agency
- DERA
- Ford Motor Company
- Fisons Pharmaceuticals
- GDA Hotpoint
- GEC Alsthom
- GEC Marconi Research
- GlaxoSmithKline
- HUF UK Limited
- INA Bearing Co Limited (UK, Germany, Brazil)
- JCB Research and Materials Handling
- KAB Seating Ltd
- KOREC (Korea)
- Lloyd Instruments
- Lucas Aerospace Limited
- 3M Health Care Limited (UK, USA, Germany)
- Mikron (Switzerland)
- National Health Service
- Nuclear Electric: National Power
- Nastech Europe Ltd
- Nadella (France/Germany)
- Northern Rubber Company Ltd
- PowerGen
- Rhône-Poulenc Rorer
- RMC Concrete
- Rolls Royce and Associates
- SPS Technologies
- Transport and Road Research Laboratories
- UAV Engines
- UFAM Clinique Co. Ltd. (Thailand)
- Urenco Nederland BV
- Universities of Aberdeen, Aston, Bristol, Brunel, City University, London, Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kingston, Nottingham, Sheffield.
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