Design Service

D.M. Kent is happy to quote for the development of electronics specific to your needs. Our main expertise is in the following areas:

low power, high speed digital electronics for machine control in the amusement industry;

digital sound recording/replay systems to CD, DAT and broadcast quality;

micro-processor controlled systems for cash acceptance (coins and notes), credit value processing and product dispensing and vending, with or without cash refund and change dispensing;

control electronics for medium power display systems including light chasers, random pattern generators and displays. LED display control electronics;

interface electronics to allow industrial, consumer and amusement industry machines to be payment operated. Note and coin interfaces for computers;

D.M. Kent provides the complete electronic design service tailored to the exact needs of the customer. We would expect to provide our own project management which follows the following pattern:

You will make an initial contact as the customer to present us with a product concept proposal, usually verbally. After an ad-hoc meeting within our design team we will reply, usually by telephone, to the proposal and offer to bid for the contract.

Further discussions between ourselves and yourselves will lead to the firming up of the contract and we will open a file and issue a project number. Some investigation work may be necessary on our part at this stage. A single point of contact for all technical matters and a single point of contact for all other contractual matters will be established between us and you. You may find it helpful to visit our site and will be most welcome.

After a formal proposal and technical specification is provided by you we will make a formal quotation with delivery schedules and costing. We would expect a large project to be divided into separate work-packages each with a definite endpoint and milestones.

After you have accepted our quotation we will expect a small token of your commitment before formally starting work. At this stage a visit to your site by us may be appropriate.

Most large projects operate in an incremental manner. This spreads our risk, your costs, and allows us to be extremely flexible as your project develops. We will keep you informed of our progress at each milestone and will expect to be quickly informed of changes to the project that may affect our work. We understand that you may have other contractors working on other parts of the project. We will be flexible on electrical and mechanical interfaces between the electronics we are developing and the other parts of your project. We will expect you to make your best endevours to meet any technicial demands we may make from the other parts of your project. This is especially important in the areas of the provision of power, physical space and looming for our electronics within your casings and cabinets.

A prototype system would usually be produced to iron out any final problems before proceeding to production quantities.