The following profiles demonstrate just some of Ballarat’s successes since the City initiated a co-ordinated strategy for ICT development in the region – Ballarat IT 2010. Profile 6 – Staley and Associates Since its beginnings in 1996 as a sole operator small business providing electrical services, Staley and Associates has grown into a leading Victorian provider of total electrical engineering solutions that integrate state of the art ICT applications into manufacturing processes. Staley and Associates devise, design and install Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS) that utilise Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) technologies to link together Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) in manufacturing and processing environments. These integrated solutions assist companies in the food and beverage, mining and agriculture, and manufacturing sectors increase productivity through effective Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and custom designed automation processes. Profile 7 – JustSys JustSys, located on the University of Ballarat Technology Park was launched in 2002 to commercialise discoveries in the field of artificial intelligence made by company founders at the University of Ballarat and La Trobe University. A world leader in the creation of web-based, intelligent decision-support systems, JustSys provides software tools for giving expert advice and information on highly complex issues. These user-friendly decision aids harness ground-breaking new understanding of how people reason and make decisions. Over its first four years, JustSys (and partners) have achieved sales of almost $1 million and its innovations have been widely reported including articles in The Economist and MIT Technology Review.
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