Optimise your Product Test
Automated testing is hard. We can help you optimise it, through our test systems and software offerings:
√ Reduce test inefficiency and inaccuracy
√ Increase quality and insights
√ Apply a consistent test strategy
√ Make testing a pleasure
You make awesome products. We'll make sure it's high quality
Welcome to Wired-in Software!
Problem Spotlight:
Are you a Production Manager/Product Designer/Test Engineer, and looking to take your production test to the next level?
Building up a world-class production test process is harder than it looks. All too often, we see organisations struggling with their test equipment. The common theme is:
- The test systems are custom built, and often created by the engineer who designed the product and no one else knows how it works
- Obsolete hardware or very custom hardware was used to save money at the time, but is now irreplaceable
- The system exhibits intermittent errors and they’re difficult to interpret
- The testing process is heavily dependent on an operator who knows the test and product really well
- Documentation is lacking, or out of date
- The effort to gather test insights is largely manual and slow
All of the above can result in disgruntled production staff, time wasting, inefficiencies, and at a higher risk of production completely stopping when (not if) something breaks. If any of these issues are familiar to you, then read on. We can help solve these problems for you.
How we help solve it:
Wired-in Software’s purpose is to help product designers, test engineers and growing manufacturers thoroughly test their products, optimise production efficiency and improve product quality. Our niche is automated bespoke turnkey test and measurement systems and software, with some associated services. Our test systems and software solutions can bring you value in the following ways:
- Automated Measurement & Testing – Manual testing is slow, unrepeatable, error prone, and resource heavy. We help our clients transition to an automated approach, which is repeatable, traceable, and with high data visibility.
- Reliable and Standardised Platform – Existing test equipment is often poorly documented, built on very customised software and hardware, and requires the expert knowledge of the original developer (who may no longer be accessible). Our systems are built for reliability, well documented, and based on NI’s industry standard hardware and software platform, and benefit from our unwavering support.
- Team Augmentation – In-house testing can easily distract from a business’ core objectives. Our experienced test and measurement engineers assist our clients who lack the internal resources to engineer and deliver a system on time.
- Remove Obsolescence Risk – Obsolete systems are a huge risk to operations. We routinely upgrade client’s existing equipment to deliver years of reliable and valuable operation and enhance maintainability and upgradability in the future.
- With Trusted Support – Wired-in Software is a National Instruments System Integration Partner, a DQMH Trusted Advisor, a Bloomy Distributor and has a a LabVIEW Champion, making for a strong network.
Ready to discuss your application in person? Click on the button to schedule a free 45 minute consultation to kick start your test program.
Our Core Offerings
Test Systems
We design, build, and supply custom turnkey test solutions, that include EOL FCT systems for production environments, as well as V&V and HIL for product designers, and Warranty Return testers for QA departments. These systems reduce testing errors and manufacturing costs, and increase product quality.
Software
Our software applications include Automated Test and Measurement, Monitoring, Embedded/Control and Machine Vision. We specialise in NI LabVIEW, NI TestStand, NI Systemlink, G Web Development, Python, and Micropython. Our software is developed with quality in mind, using Gitlab/Fork, internal Code Quality tools, and a sound software engineering process.
Clients
Case Studies
Below are examples of how we’ve helped solved some of our clients problems.
Covid-19 RAT Testing
Parallel automated test software based on TestStand, to perform EOL test on bluetooth-based home analyser RATs.
ECU Test System
Two turnkey automated test systems developed to test an aerospace ECU PCBA.
Structural Health Monitoring
250+ vibration/strain/temp sensors mounted on building, feeding into embedded cRIOs, synchronised by TSN.
Laboratory Automated Soil Testing
Lab instrumentation software to control a robot to measure soil/water samples from racks of sample cups, including automated buffer dispensing.
Our Guarantee
Requirements and Design is completed when customer is satisfied. We listen to your challenges, and work hard to find a solution to your problem.
Delivered systems will meet and often exceed the requirements, and be reliable
Responsive support
Thorough and detailed documentation
Source code and drawings/schematics supplied upon completion
LabVIEW / TestStand Coaching
Wired-in Software offers coaching for individuals and teams who want to take the next step in their LabVIEW / TestStand development.
Our coaches each have 25+ years of experience, and delivered many production applications over their career. So they know what’s required to make a test application reliable, robust and easy to use.
The coaching package includes 16 hours of online coaching sessions, hosted once or twice a week. We help you with your current application, rather than a prescribed training course.
The main perk is not only will your application development get a great kick start, we’ll share with you our range of project and module templates to reduce your development time.
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The inaugural conference was held on October 24/25 2023, at CSIRO Lindfield, Sydney, Australia.
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Client Testimonials
Backed by Strong Partnerships
NI Partner
Wired-in are a National Instruments System Integration partner. We have expertise in selecting and delivering solutions that use the NI platform.
DQMH Trusted Advisor
Faster and flexible development, more scalable solutions and easier to onboard team members
Distributor for ANZ
Wired-in distribute the Bloomy EFT Module for TestStand. We use this tool to speed up our test sequence development.
Frequently Asked Questions
In short, no. We select NI products by default, because that’s what we’re familiar with, and we can save time (and therefore money) by reusing our existing drivers and experience to develop software that works with NI hardware. But one of LabVIEW’s core strengths is the ability to communicate with a range of devices and often NI doesn’t have the exact solution so we can augment our applications with 3rd party hardware.
NI LabVIEW is an incredibly productive coding environment for developing test, measurement and control applications. It can run on Windows, Linux, and RT/FPGA targets like NI cRIO. Due to it’s graphical nature, it is geared to those who think visually, and many scientists and engineers gravitate towards it.
If you’re new to test systems, and are looking for help from automated test equipment companies like ours, then we suggest starting with one of our design packages. Starting from less than $5,000, one of our design engineers can help you build up a robust and thorough specification that clearly articulates your project’s objectives, and leave with you a clear plan on how to build it, and a price for us to deliver it. Learn more here.
We’re based in the east of Melbourne, Australia, but we currently have clients all around Australia, as well as New Zealand and USA. In terms of languages we can communicate in, we are fluent in English, Hindi, and Indonesian.