Research and Development

An automotive lab needed a program to perform brake testing.  The software had to plot force and position on an XY graph.  The customer also needed a real time numeric display of the measurements and save the data to a predefined excel template.

An oil and gas valve manufacturing company needed custom software to control and monitor their flow test stand.  They needed software to monitor pressure, position, velocity, and temperature.  The customer also needed the software to actuate the valves to control the stand.  Data acquired from the stand needed to be saved in an excel format.

A consumer manufacturing company needed to monitor up to 64 temperatures on their product to verify the product complied with UL standards.

Impression 5 hands on science center in Lansing, MI had an exhibit that needed an upgrade. The exhibit consisted of firing a tennis ball with compressed air, with the goal of shooting the ball into a bucket a fixed distance away. The patron could select the angle at which the tennis ball was fired, and the pressure of an air tank upon firing by using a hand pump. A PC monitored the angle of the tennis ball and the air pressure of a tank, and displayed these measurements on a computer screen along with the flight trajectory for the angle and pressure. Impression 5 wanted to upgrade the computer graphics and use off the shelf hardware to make maintenance easier.