Although our experience and expertise is applicable to a wide range of technologies, most of our experience is with sensors and sensor systems including MEMS based inertial accelerometers and gyroscope. Clearbox Solutions can provide a wide array of services to increase your business' bottom line:
Following are examples of types of services Clearbox has provided in the past.
- Device Modeling including both physical and phenomenological models of devices and processes, which can then be used for simulating improvements
- Data Analysis - This is one of the most common areas where Clearbox can help. It is now easy to collect gigabytes worth of data, but much more difficult to parse through that data to find the answers to your questions. Clearbox is well adept at utilizing tools like Matlab and Minitab to distill large amounts of data.
- Systems Engineering
- Control loop analysis and design
- Specification allocation
- Statistical Services stems from a background in Six Sigma methodologies (Black Belt and Green Belt certifications). These services are the starting point in problem solving. They attempt to answer basic questions like, "Is the decrease in yield we are observing related to different lots we receive from our suppliers?"
- Design of experiments (DOE) - What is the most efficient way to vary possible factors and understand how those factors influence the output?
- Statistical significance
- Reliability calculations
- Process control charting - Is there something causing the process to change or is the variation just part of the "noise" of the process?
- Crystal Ball analyses
Problem solving - Although "problem solving" seems like a nebulous service to offer, there are many specific problem solving steps that significantly help organize and ultimately solve problems.
- Thought mapping
- Cause and effect diagramming
- Functional diagramming
- TRIZ methodologies of inventive problem solving
- Electronics
- Analog Circuit design
- Analog circuit analysis (SPICE)
- Digital - Micro-controller and DSP programming and interfacing
- Test services - design and analysis of production and engineering tests
- Vibration Testing
- Modal analysis (e.g. laser doppler vibriometry)
- Embedded code development and system integration
- System prototyping - getting the micro-controller to talk to the sensors and output the desired data
- System debug - Why doesn't the system perform better? This step involves interplay off all of our experience and skills!