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National Instruments and Boston Engineering invite you to attend a full-day complimentary workshop featuring presentations, hardware and software demonstrations, and case studies that take attendees through the creation of a medical device from concept to market.
This workshop highlights NI tools and resources you need to design, prototype, and deploy FDA-compliant medical devices.
Boston Engineering will be attending OEM New England, New England's largest advanced design and manufacturing event. OEM New England offers the chance to see the latest advances in every area of design and manufacturing including engineering, automation technology, computer-aided design and manufacturing, contract manufacturing and services, and rapid prototyping.
October 24-26, 2007
RoboDevelopment 2007
Conference and Expo
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
San Jose, CA
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Boston Engineering and National Instruments are joining forces to attend the RoboDevelopment, the international technical design and development event for the personal, service and mobile robotics industry. Boston Engineering will be presenting on how to prototype and utilize embedded platforms with custom hardware based around the Analog Devices Blackfin processor and also scale for commercial deployment with systems such as the FlexStack.
October 9th, 2007
Mechatronics Expo
Burlington, MA
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Boston Engineering's Erik Goethert will be part of a panel discussion featuring representatives from National Instruments, Siemens, UGS and Microchip, along with engineers from New England companies that have implemented successful mechatronics design.
August 7-9, 2007
NIWeek 2007
WorldWide Virtual Instrumentation
Conference and Exhibition
Austin Convention Center
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Boston Engineering introduces FlexStack at NIWeek 2007. FlexStack is the most flexible full function miniature computer that allows you to get new products to market fast and get them to market right. Erik Goethert, Eric Atherton and Jason Burns presented at the show--an event that features three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design and test.
How much valuable design time are your engineers losing preparing CAD data for illustrations in manuals and catalogs? Have you ever missed a deadline because documentation wasn't ready? How much time and effort does it cost to update illustrations every time the CAD model changes?
Come see for yourself just how much time Arbortext IsoDraw can save your business at a free 1/2 day seminar (lunch provided).
We develop products from electronics to medical devices. Our recent projects have included a photo kiosk, a wafer characterization system, and an electrostatic filtration system. Our IV Drip Pump project is featured on National Instrument's Life Sciences page.
Learn about industry trends in product development for small and medium sized businesses. Open forum discussion on the biggest issues companies
face with product data management and project collaboration. Overview and demonstration of PTC's PLM solutions for small and medium businesses. Click
here for more information.
Hosted by National Instruments, Analog Devices Inc., and Boston Engineering, this event showed how to target embedded targets such as 32-bit microprocessors, FPGAs, and DSPs with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment. In addition, the benefits of combining LabVIEW with the ADI toolchain to target low-power, high-performance Blackfin processors was also discussed. Attendees learned first-hand how these new modules help to develop applications from algorithm design and prototyping to deployment and test - all using one platform.
August 8-10, 2006
NIWeek 2006
Worldwide Virtual Instrumentation Conference and Exhibition
Austin Convention Center
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Boston Engineering's Erik Goethert will be a presenter at NIWeek 2006—an event that features three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design, and test.
Erik's training session—Prototype to Custom Deployment in Hours—is part of NIWeek's Graphical System Design Summit/Track. Engineers need the graphical system design approach to shorten their time to market and overall design cost. However, if engineers do not take a system-level approach on their projects, the result can be rework or unnecessary design iterations. At this session, Erik will review some of the lessons learned from Boston Engineering projects to avoid the "broken wires" in the design process.
Boston Engineering's Erik Goethert and Alex Gomez presented a technical paper—(WeBT17.3) Control System Design Using LabVIEW FPGA for a Digital Picture Kiosk—at the 2006 American Control Conference (ACC). The ACC offers an opportunity for meetings and discussion among academic and industrial professionals working in the fields of control, automation, and related applications areas.
Boston Engineering is a gold sponsor of (and poster presenter in) the sixth in the series of IEEE Conferences on Technologies for Homeland Security. The conference will feature over 46 scientific and technical papers and poster presentations on advanced sensors for screening personnel, baggage and cargo for WMD materials, components and other contraband materials and objects, as well as a business panel on how to do business with the government and large system integrators.
During the difficult economic years of 2001 to 2004, some companies developed a belief that lower unit cost—or lower work force salary rates—was the best means for reducing overall engineering development costs when bridging the gap between the design and the manufacturing phase of a product. In many cases, this meant shifting development to offshore service firms. This thinking is still prevalent today...
Read the full story—authored by Mark Smithers, VP/COO of Boston Engineering—in Mass High Tech.
Boston Engineering's Erik Goethert was one of the feature presenters at NI's LabVIEW Embedded for Analog Devices Blackfin Seminar. Goethert's one hour presentation, Rapid Product Development Using LabVIEW Embedded, covered how Boston Engineering is leveraging the integrated, graphical module for design process, control design, prototype implementation and final deployment.
With roughly 30 million suitcases lost during air travel every year and a tracking standard -- a paper bar code on each item—that is only about 75 percent accurate, airport officials from Logan to Lisbon are searching for new technologies to help stem the tide of lost baggage...Executives at Waltham-based engineering services company Boston Engineering Corp. think they have a solution...
Read the full cover story in Mass High Tech, the journal of New England Technology.
A leading manufacturer of solar-panel cells needed to modify an existing materials-handling and machine-vision system that limited the products' reliability and production volume. Within a month after installing new vision and imaging hardware and software—which was developed by Boston Engineering in a guaranteed timeframe—the manufacturer experienced a record production level. Click the link above to read the full cover story in Vision Systems Design magazine.
January 2006
Streamlining a Machine Control Design with High Level Prototyping Tools
Boston Engineering's Alex Gomez and Erik Goethert teamed with Shelley Gretlein of National Instruments to produce this "How-To" article featured in CMP's Embedded Systems Design magazine and CMP's Industrial Control DesignLine magazine. It explains how Boston Engineering used high level graphical prototyping tools in developing a microprocessor-based machine control application. It's another example of how companies can benefit from Boston Engineering's multidisciplinary systems approach and "big picture" view on engineering projects.
While traditional machine vision systems using high-speed video cameras work well for many industrial applications, automated infrared (IR) imaging technology has the edge when it comes to major niche temperature-sensitive segments..."Companies with gasifiers—for cracking fuel under high temperature or high pressure, for example—can use IR cameras to make sure the process is safe," said Erik Goethert, machine vision veteran and custom measurement program manager for Boston Engineering Corporation...
W. Conard Holton, Editor in Chief of Vision Systems Design magazine, interviews Erik Goethert, Program Manager of Boston Engineering. The discussion covers how Boston Engineering is using machine vision and automated systems, the company's systems approach, predictions on emerging applications and areas of growth, and more.
Download this Boston Engineering paper written by Robert Treiber and Alexander Gomez.
Introduction: Proportional Integral & Derivative (PID) control compensation has been widely accepted by servo control engineers as the de facto standard for control law implementations for decades. Today, with the prevalence of modern digital control techniques and ever demanding product development schedules...
The sidebar—Exclusive Application: Better vision: infrared sees the unseen—of the November cover story in Control Engineering magazine features Boston Engineering and its vision project using National Instruments and FLIR Systems products to find cracks in ceramic igniter elements.
Boston Engineering was an exhibitor at National Instruments' Technical Symposium, a full-day test, measurement, and control conference featuring a variety of presentations and hands-on sessions about the latest NI products, emerging industry trends, and innovative approaches to technical challenges.
October 17-20, 2005
InfraMation
Infrared Camera Applications Conference
Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Boston Engineering was an exhibitor (inside NI's booth) and presenter at FLIR Systems' InfraMation 2005 Conference. Presentation slides and paper (Automated IR Imaging, An Overview)—presented by Erik Goethert of Boston Engineering—are available upon request by sending an email to: info@boston-engineering.com.
August 16-18, 2005
NIWeek 2005
Virtual Instrumentation Exhibition
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Boston Engineering was an exhibitor (booth #1015) at the 11th annual NIWeek 2005 in Austin, TX. The conference features three full days of interactive technical sessions, exhibitions, and workshops on the latest technologies for control design, measurement, automation, manufacturing, and test.
Dr. James Truchard Keynote Speech
Watch the NIWeek keynote of Dr. James Truchard, President, CEO and Cofounder
of National Instruments, which he highlights Boston Engineering's innovative use of LabVIEW for an engineered solution. Video clips require the free Windows Media player.
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Erik Goethert Presentation
Watch Erik Goethert, Project Manager for Boston Engineering Corporation (BEC), demonstrate a tension control system for a digital printing kiosk. It was developed
utilizing NI's CompactRIO Control and Acquisition System powered by LabVIEW.
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Boston Engineering has volunteered to provide an open source communications portal for members of the Massachusetts Robotics Cluster. Mark Smithers—Vice President/COO of Boston Engineering and a member of the robotics working group—made the announcement at the July meeting.
The Massachusetts Robotics Cluster is a newly formed initiative of the Massachusetts Software Council that seeks to bring together key businesses, universities, and economic development interests to focus and build on the critical mass of activities in Robotics throughout Massachusetts. The Cluster will promote the local robotics industry and support its growth through education, networking, and sharing of best practices.
Boston Engineering was featured in a recent press release issued by Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) regarding its incorporation of the LatticeEC™ FPGA in the design of an interface board for a high-end test system. Read press release >>
Boston Engineering was a partner exhibitor at NI's Automated Test Summit in Chelmsford, MA. The full-day event was part of a series attended by more than 1,000 people to learn new trends and techniques across design validation and manufacturing test.
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