Bruins Instruments produces precision NIR (Near Infra Red) Analyzers for the Agriculture, Food, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. NIR technology is renowned for its ability to accurately analyze almost any product or material for not only compositional analysis, but also to provide quantitative information on a variety of physical and mechanical properties.
Anderson Ladder – Function + Safety
The Anderson Ladder is an innovative safety product designed to reduce fall injuries occurring while the driver climbs onto the flatbed trailer. Bureau of Labor statistics for falls from flatbeds show upwards of One Hundred Thousand (100,000) fall injuries per year. The Anderson Ladder uses recognized OSHA standards of safety and ergonomics, including ‘3 point control’ and horizontal hand grips.
Reltima LLC – GPS – Mobile – Remote Data
Reltima LLC develops new and innovative GPS fleet management technology combined with the latest advances in web based map rendering to bring specialized mission critical solutions to the rapidly expanding asset tracking and mobile data market place. Reltima’s engineers integrate GPS, Wireless Radio and other technologies into a number of form factors targeting large and relatively untapped market segments. Our efforts have yielded smaller, less complex and highly accurate devices that are cheaper to manufacture, easier to install and support and in most cases are undetectable adding a higher degree of security.
Founders, Andrew Petrov, John Darienzo and Andrei Doudkine have a 50 year combined working relationship with all 50 years spent in the wireless data market place. The company is headquartered in Woburn MA and has a sales office in New York City. As early pioneers, the founders were at the forefront of wireless data developing mobile products deployed by early technology adopting large enterprises like UPS, Kraft, Pepsi, Airborne Express, Ford, Purolator, Sea-land and a host of other very large customers. The wireless dispatch system developed for Airborne Express was deployed in the late 90’s to over 40,000 people nationwide and is still in use today by DHL who acquired the company and adopted the technology as the company standard. We believe our experience gives us a clear competitive advantage.
Reltima will capitalize on the growing national and international demand for asset tracking which is being fueled by terrorism and other national security concerns. Reltima is an enabler and is specializing in bringing products to market that will be sold by our customers to their customers. We partner today with a wide range of vendors and product companies to either enhance existing products with complimentary services or to provide products for the vendor to sell under the vendors brand. In addition to Reltima’s existing product line, Reltima also specializes in custom projects based on our core product lines for large customers. It is our ability to integrate with legacy systems, develop specialized data capture forms and do so on a wide range of devices and networks that sets us aside from the average AVL provider.
Motorcycle Trip
Just finished a 20-mile race with my younger son. Went pretty well, but if we’re going to be serious about this, we’ll need better suspension on the bikes.
Rog and I thought it was going to be a smooth ride through the sage.  It turned out to be 20 miles of  hell.  Every inch of the course was tough.  The only time you could take a breath was when we stopped.  From hills to rocks to boulder to mud to sand, we rode it all.  We finished though, us and the TW’s.  We were limited by our bikes though.  The power was fine, we just needed more suspension.