Workflow Management for the National Library of Wales (NLW)

As one of the four copyright libraries in the UK, NLW receives a copy of all books published in Wales. With an archive of over 4 million artefacts, NLW decided to digitise their collection for reasons of conservation and restoration as well as making items more available to the public via the internet. One of two applications implemented for NLW, CASIS has provided a Workflow Management System which improves the efficiency and quality of their digitisation process. After consulting with NLW in order to understand their existing system, CASIS developed a software solution accessible over an intranet by different stages of the process.

Factory Automation for Invertek Drives

Invertek Drives manufacture energy efficient electrical motor controllers and hand held command units. CASIS has worked with Invertek Drives since 2002 developing desktop PC and multiple platform PDA versions of their drive control software. As well as allowing remote control of factory machinery, the software provides monitoring and diagnostic information about the drive units. Improvements made by CASIS to the functionality and user interface of their original product line have firmly established Invertek Drives as a global supplier in their market.

Broadsword Interactive and Dance UK

Broadsword Interactive Ltd, who designed Dance UK ( Sony's recent computer game for Playstation) joined forces with CASIS in order to achieve their aim of creating the most realistic animated dancer possible for the game. Using the VICON 3D motion capture facility, our centres experts used real-time motion capture technology to record the movements of professional dancers as they went through each routine. By working with CASIS, Broadsword Interactive Ltd were able to achieve their aim of creating the most realistic animated dancer for use in Dance:UK, and the game was released in time for the Christmas seasonal boom of computer games sales.

Halen Môn Plant Monitoring System

Halen Môn, a small, but rapidly growing company producing organically certified sea-salt for culinary use contacted CASIS in the hope of finding a way of automating their monitoring process. CASIS were able to draw on their hardware, software and system design expertise to provide a custom built plant monitoring and logging system specifically tailored to their production plant. The system constantly monitors temperatures, fluid flow rates, salt concentrations and system pressures, automatically alerting staff via mobile phone text messages when a fault occurs. The system has the added benefit of alerting staff to a plant shutdown, and has improved the efficiency and accuracy of the plant monitoring process.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust

Research and development is being undertaken into staging, classification and detection of prostate cancer, using MRI scan data and images. This research has built on previous work in analysis of mammographic data. Our experts, in collaboration with radiologists, have developed an innovative hybrid 2d and 3d active shaping technique to build a 3d model of the prostate gland from magnetic resonance segmentation data. Classification methods are then applied to the segmented prostrate in order to automatically locate any abnormalities.