EDMI – The Company Background

 In 1977 John Flood and Neil Gibson, 2 Australian electrical engineers with Electricity Authority of Queensland, established Electronic Design and Manufacture Queensland Pty Ltd (EDMQ) to provide electronic design services and solutions. 

 EDMQ scored a major breakthrough when in 1982 it won the contract to design and install the scoreboards at Q.E.II Stadium and the Chandler Velodrome for the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. These scoreboards were custom designed by EDMI utilizing what was then the latest technology to meet the stringent requirements of the games.

 In 1986, EDMQ designed the Rainmaster automatic sprinkler system which has since been installed in the Federal Parliament House, Brisbane's South Bank Parklands and prestigious golf courses such as Royal Pines on the Gold Coast.  It also developed Railmaster, a telemetry and information system Queensland Rail.

 In 1990 EDMQ was renamed Electronic Design and Manufacturing International (EDMI) in preparation for internationalization thrust.

 EDMI was contracted by Victorian Electricity to design and produce Electricity Meters for the state of Victoria. This resulted in the birth of EDMI’s Mark 1. Pleased with the success of this meter, the partners proceeded with the development of the Mk 3 meters, a cost effective class, high accuracy class 0.2 meter with state-of-the-art features such as fibre ring communication, harmonic analysis, remote readings, data logging.

 In the year 1996-1997 EDMI also started the development of the Mk 6 Genius meter, the PSQM Power watch, a transformer insulation monitor and DDR. 

 To support its R & D growth and to enable it to bring the products into the international market, considerable funding was needed. In 1996 Bridex Singapore was invited to acquire a 30% shareholdings in EDMI.  As part of the deal EDMI Asia was set up in Singapore to handle international marketing.

 To realize its potential of becoming a player in the global metering market,  the Board of EDMI re-focus the core business from contract design into a specialized meter design and manufacturing company capable of supplying advance, customize metering products to the world market. The Mk 6 Genius meter production was started in Brisbane in 1998.

 EDMI – Research & Development

With its roots developed from R & D competency, EDMI’s core business is build on advance technology, design innovation and software competency.

Over the last 3 years, EDMI allocated about $1 million in its product R & D and various related activities such as testing and market research, which amounting to approximately 10% of its sales revenue.

Currently, the Mk10 is in the latest addition to EDMI’s series of meters. The Mk 10 Atlas meters which targets the high volume- low cost, highly class 1 markets, had completed its design cycle. It retains most of the outstanding features of the Mk 6 meters using technology advances and design competency to enable it to be built at lower cost. 

The highly sophisticated and accurate meter Mk 11, presently under development, will be ready for testing in the last quarter of 2004. This is targeted at the highly accurate class 0.2 market, and is expected to replace the classic Mk 3 meter in years to come.

 

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