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Specialising in designing, developing, and validating control systems that ensure efficient and safe operation. Expertise spans across multiple industries and regulatory regimes, including marine, aerospace and off grid applications. By leveraging advanced technologies and development methodologies, DRM Controls creates robust control solutions that optimise performance, enhance reliability, and mostly importantly work.

 

Key areas of focus include:

• Control Design: Design and implementation of control systems for complex systems.
• Software Development: Developing and troubleshooting Simulink code for seamless automation.
• Instrumentation: Selecting and integrating sensors and actuators to monitor control systems.

Extensive experence in Systems Engineering right from initial requirements capture from customer and regulatory environments, through to system integration and testing. Focus is always given to ensuring the system operates reliably throughout the operational envelope.

 

• System Specification and Requirements: Requirements gathering from multiple sources including internal, user and regulatory. Requirement management and compliance.
• Component Selection: Careful component selection that meets budget, performance and compliance requirements.
• Systems Integration: Software development and systems hardware integration to ensure all components communicate and co-ordinate seamlessly.
• System Testing: Extensive system testing to ensure all requirements have been met and validated. Also ensure that user expectation is met.

Comprehensive system architectures serve as the blueprint for complex control systems. Any approach must ensures that all components work together to achieve the desired functionality and performance. By adopting a systematic and modular design philosophy, together with a spiral development process ensures features are tested often and early.

 

Key services include:

• Control System Integration: Ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between various subsystems and components.
• Network Design: Designing robust and secure communication networks for data exchange and control.
• Hardware Selection: Choosing the right hardware components to meet system requirements and constraints.
• Software Development: Creating custom software solutions tailored to specific control needs.

System validation is a critical phase in the development of control systems, ensuring that the final product meets all specifications and performs reliably under real-world conditions. Employing rigorous testing and validation procedures to verify system functionality, identify potential issues, and implement corrective actions.

Key validation activities include:

 

• Functional Testing: Verifying that the system performs all intended functions correctly.
• MIL and HIL testing: Extensive use of Model in the Loop (MIL) and Hardware In the Loop (HIL) can be used to fully validate system performance before reaching end system validation. Testign often and early is crucial.
• Performance Testing: Assessing system performance under various operating conditions and loads.
• Safety Testing: Ensuring that the system operates safely and complies with relevant safety standards.
• Documentation: Providing comprehensive documentation of validation procedures, results, and compliance.

Once the asset enters service, monitoring in service performance and identifying faults early is a key differentiator for any product. In service Telematics and Data Analysis uses various communication mediums depending on application. Data is fed back to a central server for analysis of both internal and customer teams.

 

• Location Tracking: Location tracking allows any assets to be tracked in real time.
• In Service Performance: Key performance metrics can be tracked both in real time and analysed over time. This ensures current performance is measured, but also how it changes over time to identify any issues.
• Fault Analysis: Fault analysis of components and control system can be shown again both in real time, and over time to identify and correct issues quickly reducing down time.