SYSTEMS DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & INTEGRATION:

Lee-Dickens' System Division specialises in System Design, Development and Integration. Many of our customers ask us to adapt our existing equipment to interface with third party equipment, or to integrate a number of types of equipment into a working solution. Our depth of experience in Project Management and Engineering, along with our wide range of products means that we are ideally placed to solve your problems.

Engineering

Most of the projects we undertake involve a large proportion of System Configuration and Software work. Our Software department has wide experience of coding and maintaining our own products, as well as employing third party packages in an integrated solution.

Our hardware design team has many years experience of analogue and digital hardware design. We are likely to be able to satisfy you requirements using our existing products, but if necessary, we are well placed to modify an existing design or create an entirely new product.

Hardware and Software development is carried out in accordance with procedures laid down in our Design Engineering Practices & Procedures (DEP&P) Manual which is approved to ISO9001 and the software requirement of ISO9000-3 Tick-IT.

Project Management

The essential ingredients for the success of any project are project management, quality control and configuration management. Based on Management-by-Objectives, critical path evaluation and the experience of our staff, we have developed project procedures and evaluation systems which are designed to ensure that timely decisions are made based on accurate information, thus ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Continuing input from our customers, achieved through regular project meetings, ensures their active participation in our decision making process and maintains their interests and objectives in full view throughout the project life cycle.

Our project organisation is centred around a qualified and experienced Project Manager, who is responsible directly to the company's Managing Director. The Functional Design Specification (FDS) combining the customer specification and the tender offer is written by the project manager. The FDS is agreed at a Critical Design Review and becomes the project specification for the supplier and the customer. Once the critical design review is completed, the project team is resourced to meet the agreed project time scales. The project team carries out all specialist development works and generates the Production Test Specification (PTS) documents in accordance with the procedures laid down in the Design Engineering Practices and Procedures Manual.

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