Battery Monitoring System

Setec have released their Battery Monitoring System BMS-001. The BMS-001 is a high quality battery monitor that continuously monitors 12V lead acid batteries, acting as a “fuel gauge”, to estimate the state of charge and time remaining to discharge.

Fully designed and manufactured in Australia, this monitor is perfect for use with caravan batteries, marine batteries, solar energy systems, radio communications, farming and many other applications.

Clear visual management is achieved through a large LCD screen, with a backlight for night viewing, which displays a range of information including volts, amps, state of charge as a percentage, total charge/discharge cycles, and remaining battery life.   

The BMS-001 gives real time information about the health of your battery by monitoring the total charge/discharge and will even warn you when the battery voltage is low. This allows you to manage the state of your battery life versus your appliance use and the need to charge.

The BMS-001 is vital to making an accurate estimate of the state of charge, and allows you to determine when a battery should be replaced or recharged.

Setec are experts in power management and have been designing and manufacturing power supplies since 1968, thus earning a reputation for creating world-class products and providing custom-designed power supply solutions.

The BMS-001 Battery Monitoring system is due for release in March 2011.

Setec Awarded the SAI Global 20 year Quality Certificate

In a time of Global Economic uncertainty good news is becoming rare. That’s why it is so good to hear about Australian company who is being acknowledged for its commitment to high quality home grown manufacture. 

Setec a Melbourne based Manufacturing company has been awarded the “SAI Global 20 years of Management Systems” certification. This acknowledgement is a significant milestone as it recognises that Setec has shown such a long-term commitment to quality standards for over 20 years. 

CEO, David Bayliss and Quality Manager, Gary Gan represented Setec at the ceremony on the 18th of November 2010, where David received the award and certificate.

Setec has been manufacturing power supplies for over 40 years and have been distributing them throughout the world. Its Australian Headquarters boasts over 2,500 square metres (27,000 square feet) of modern factory and stores floor space. They have Antistatic, ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) proof flooring, covering 1500 square metres. This in-house manufacturing operation provides SETEC with a strategic high quality standard, as it enables streamlining of SETEC’s time-to-market process. To meet the needs of its customers, SETEC has been RoHS and WEEE compliant since June 2006.

Setec’s Quality Manager Gary Gan has over 20 years of international process engineering and manufacturing experience within companies such as Hewlett Packard, Iomega and Agilent. With over 15 years in quality management he has earned much experience and qualifications and currently holds the Six Sigma Champion certification.

“Quality is not created by accident,” says Gary Gan “It is the business management and teamwork as well as good customer feedback. It is the process of planning and continually improving on everything you do.”

Gary started with Setec as their quality manager two years ago and has been constantly impressed with their commitment to quality. “Setec’s quality systems meet international standards and are comparable to the multi-national companies that I had worked with,” he says when explaining his first thoughts of joining the company. “With customers from all over the world and especially those within the Medical and Defence industries a very high standard is needed.

“It’s great to be acknowledged this way, but it so important to continually improve on what you do,” says CEO David Bayliss, “That’s why Setec are currently in the process of obtaining a LEAN manufacturing standard which will allow us to always be striving for a more efficient and cost effective way of manufacturing”.

The SAI Global, “Management Systems Awards” have always been highly regarded as the benchmark for many manufacturing organisations throughout the world. This award given to Setec is particularly exceptional as it been initiated by SAI Global, as apposed to Setec being an applicant, and is recognition of 20 years of quality Australian manufacturing.