Electronics Engineering Consulting - Hardware and Software

Arlington Laboratory Services

Manage - Analyze - Architect - Design - Deploy - Market

Offering a full spectrum of technology management and engineering design services

Arlington Laboratory offers an array of services focused on successful and profitable technology deployment strategies for our clients. We work independently or as a member of your team with fixed-price contracts or time-and-material arrangements.

Our designs and services have found great success in diverse industries. Our thorough technical knowledge of electronics, embedded software, object-oriented modeling, distributed control networks, process measurement and control technologies, and safety systems provides the foundation for our capabilities in: electronic architecture and design, technology management, representation in technical standards, and technical analysis.

Design

Why does your design team need Arlington Laboratory?

Increase the bandwidth of product development groups and engineering staff.
Gain instant access to world-class design expertise.
Cut product development time and cost.
Take advantage of the latest advancements in technology.
Use independent design reviews to enhance product performance, reliability, and manufacturability. Also important for ISO-9001 design validation.
Avoid ramp-up times for compliance with technical standards or new customer demands.
Integrate new designs with minimum disruption to legacy designs.

Arlington Laboratory delivers leading-edge electronics and control systems design services ...

Electronics Hardware – Analog, Digital, Power, Micro …
Software – Embedded, Platform, Mobile, Cloud …
Industrial Networks – Multidrop, WiFi, RF, Nearfield …
Control Systems – Industry 4.0
Sensors, Actuators and Subsystems
Closed-Loop Process Controllers
ISO-9001 Design Review Services
Industrial Network Function Safety and Residual Error Calculation
Design of Experiments for Root-Cause Isolation
Troubleshooting, Diagnostics and Corrective Actions

Arlington Laboratory has helped clients advance their product offerings, grow market share and enhance customer satisfaction with rapid and thorough response to design opportunities. We allow our clients to quickly and cost effectively offer new products or enhance existing ones.

In addition to serving our clients with complete designs, our engineering expertise has been put to task at client design reviews. Arlington Laboratory provides independent engineering critique and detailed recommendations to help our clients enhance performance, cut manufacturing cost and improve reliability.

Having a problem with an existing product design in the field? Don’t make your customers wait while you hunt for the original engineers or avail staff from other projects; put Arlington Laboratory on your quick-strike troubleshooting team. Over the years, our team of experts have had great success analyzing data, assimilating designs, designing experiments, pinpointing design problems and executing corrective actions for our clients in record time. Let us show you why our professionalism and dedication to problem solving are unparalleled in our field.

We let our clients decide the scope of our involvement. Whether we work independently or in concert with existing engineering teams, the product of Arlington Laboratory with our client is always greater than the sum of its parts.

Technical Standards

Why does your organization need Arlington Laboratory?

International technical standards drive the industrial and process automation markets.
Standards compliance earns immediate recognition among customers and potential customers.
Advertising compliance with specific standards yields results with Internet searches.
Organizations get left behind and miss opportunities if they don’t keep up with developing technical standards.
Technical representation in standards organizations is critical for guiding technical content in directions synergistic with core corporate technologies.
Arlington Laboratory provides technical standards interpretation, vision, representation, compliance, and leadership for client organizations.

Arlington Laboratory is globally recognized and respected for technical standards services ...

Understand Relevant Standards
Drive New Standards
Leverage Compliance Assessments
Market Standards Conformance
Demonstrate Technology Leadership
Immediate Recognition
Grow Market Share

Arlington Laboratory is a principle architect and lead author of industry standards for: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), Open DeviceNet Vendors Association (ODVA), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), CC-Link Partners Association (CLPA), Integrated Measurement Association (IMA), Profibus Trade Organization (PTO), EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG), and others.

Our Chief Technology Officer, Daniel R. Judd, has served as: chairman of the SEMI Sensor Bus Subcommittee (’93-’08); founder and chairman of the ODVA Semiconductor Special Interest Group (’96-’09); and founding chairman of the EtherCAT Technology Group Semiconductor Technical Working Group (’11-’13). Each represented hundreds of members worldwide focused on device-level networking for equipment and process control. Mr. Judd is personally responsible for hundreds of pages of technical specifications, industry-specific implementation guidelines and conformance test methods.

Today, Mr. Judd serves as United States National Committee appointed expert for the IEC Technical Committee 65, Industrial process measurement, control and automation – working groups for: protocol, installation, and functional safety (’05-present). He is recipient of the 2018 prestigious IEC 1906 Award as “an important technical contributor to developments on extended models and equations”.

Technology Management

Why does your management team need Arlington Laboratory?

Improve every level of your development process and corporate technology management with proven MIT Technology Management methods.
Understand and implement the latest technological advances for your products.
Fully assimilate technologies into your design, service and support organizations.
Avoid disruptions and expensive delays.
Focus only on technologies that offer high value for your business.
Structure product development groups for quick response.
Supplement your business with complimentary external technologies through technical alliances and strategic partnerships.
Leverage technologies for maximum profits by training technical, managerial, marketing, sales, service and support staff.

Arlington Laboratory delivers unparalleled technology management services ...

Technology Management Strategies Designed to Fit Your Business
Development Program and Project Management Services
Technical Staff, Resource and Infrastructure Design and Deployment
Technology Risk Assessment
Technology Impact Studies and Implementation Strategies
Plans for Project Scope, Budget and Specifications
Technical Assessment and Valuations for Partnerships, Mergers and Acquisitions
Specifications and Capabilities Matching for Multi-Vendor Solutions
Technical Training

Corporate executives and technical managers alike have come to rely on Arlington Laboratory to provide key technical management services to optimize their overall product management strategies. Arlington Laboratory helps companies manage technology easily and effectively.

Arlington Laboratory has developed and directed multi-million dollar programs for leading Fortune 500 companies with great success. We have advised on key technology, staffing and resource decisions and played central roles in merger and acquisition activities. We have an extensive background in managing technology, product development, and sensor, actuator, subsystem and system design.

More than once, our commitment to complete advanced technology deployment has helped clients to improve existing and new technology implementations, with which they alone have struggled. Arlington Laboratory has a demonstrated track record of quick identification and elimination of technology shortcomings in both products and organizations.

We understand the importance of a complete technology management strategy. From technology risk assessment, well-targeted specifications, strict budget control and critical make/buy decisions to rigorous independent design reviews, infrastructure planning and comprehensive multi-vendor solutions, Arlington Laboratory provides unparalleled knowledge, experience and success.

Technology Analysis and Assessment

Why does your research and development team need Arlington Laboratory?

Understand how technologies, products and systems compare to competitive offerings.
Give critical decision makers the information needed for key strategic decisions.
Select the right technology for your application domain.
Guarantee successful implementations by optimizing all critical design parameters.
Increase core competency by distributing comprehensive technical treatises to key staff.
Demonstrate to customers that critical technologies are well understood and well managed.

Arlington Laboratory delivers world-class technical analysis services ...

Competitive Technology Compare/Contrast Reports
Technology Utility and Applicability Assessments
Control Network Performance Analyses
Data and Information Flow Analyses
Subsystem and System Requirements Development
Electronics, Software and Control System Impact Studies
Object-Oriented Modeling Development
Technology Design, Management and Marketing Analysis Reports

Arlington Laboratory has earned a great deal of respect as an independent research laboratory; some of the analysis reports provided to clients have achieved world acclaim. Although we have written analyses on a wide variety of topics, our most notable work has been in the area of control networks and distributed intelligence architectures for highly automated systems.

Our expertise in electronics, software, control theory, digital communications, control networks, object-oriented modeling and semiconductor process measurement and control form the basis by which Arlington Laboratory has produced the most comprehensive analysis reports serving manufacturers, designers, integraters and users of intelligent systems and subsystems.

Client comments include: “comprehensive and concise” … “written beautifully to address both technical and non-technical audiences” … “a real eye-opener ” … “[the report] saved us from making a big mistake” … and, one of our favorite comments, “profoundly significant”.

Measurement - Control - Communications - Automation
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Services

Technology management, Engineering architecture and design, Technical standards, R&D analysis