Welcome! Please take a look around to see which of our products and services can best help you, your design team and your products become the most competitive in the industry. We'll help you optimize your products or systems to work robustly at high performance levels.
Our mission is to enhance your development team's productivity through:
On-site, in-depth, hands-on MATLAB/SIMULINK/Toolbox Training Courses
On-site, practical Digital Servo Systems Design Short Courses
Custom comprehensive Simulation and Optimization Design Tools for your electromechanical product or system
Expert Consultation to help you design robust, high-performance, competitive products and systems and to move them into production quickly
Our Company
We consult to computer peripheral, data storage, automotive, motor and motion control, semiconductor, aerospace, entertainment, chemical, steel and defense equipment manufacturers worldwide. Our motor control, servomechanical and mechatronic applications span a wide range of power levels - from head positioning servo systems in small form factor magnetic and optical disk drives to stepper and DC brushless motors to AC induction motor vector control systems operating at hundreds of horsepower (and virtually anything in between).
Most of our work comes by referral from satisfied clients, who span ±9 time zones from our office in Colorado. Our clients range in size from small companies to multinational corporations. See our list of representative design projects.
Dr. Mike Sidman is an independent engineering consultant with 30 years of practical industrial design experience in the design, optimization, simulation and control of electromechanical and dynamic systems, with roles spanning product design, advanced development and applied research. He is the named inventor on 18 U.S. patents, author of many technical papers and received a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1986. As Digital Equipment Corporation's top servo systems guru, Dr. Sidman was responsible for developing novel servomechanical technology for disk drives and headed the Storage Division's Servo-Mechanical Advanced Development Group. Dr. Sidman is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ASME and has been a consultant to and third party provider for The MathWorks beginning in 1994. He founded his engineering consulting business in 1989 and is listed in Marquis Who'sWho in Science and Engineering.
Renee Sidman is our Business Manager. She has an MBA from the University of Washington and is fluent in Japanese. We can also provide or recommend additional resources you may need for your project.
We are centrally located in the U.S. in Colorado Springs at the base of Pikes Peak in Colorado's Front Range Silicon Mountain high-tech hotbed.
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