AutoMeasure's service begins with a short meeting and evaluation at your location.  This visit is free of charge for customers within a 90 minute drive of Arlington, Mass.  After the evaluation, if it looks like I can be of service to you, we sign a working agreement and I begin.

Please read my one-page QA procedure flow chart to see the steps and documentation I go through over the course of the project.

There are two different ways of contracting with AutoMeasure:  hourly and fixed price.

Hourly work is at a straight rate, which is $110 per hour through 2008.  I do the work as it evolves, in an iterative process.  It isn't necessary to agree on a detailed specification beforehand, but I usually start by writing a rough specification and estimate of hours.  The hourly method is used for an experimental system, when you want to add more functionality as you use the system, where modification of old LabVIEW code is involved, or when I'm unfamiliar with the type of project.

Fixed price work is one quoted price for the whole job, or a schedule of prices for pieces of the job.  We agree on a detailed specification before work starts.  There is often an initial, separately priced, investigative phase in which we discuss the system and I write the specification.  The fixed price method is used when system features are fully definable up front and are unlikely to change, and when the path to completion is clear.  Any change to the specification requires pausing the work and quoting a new fixed price.

Total charges, not including your materials and equipment purchases, can range from $4,000 for a simple measure, display, and save system to $50,000 for a large, sophisticated, automated system that has most of these features.

Typically most of the development work is done at the AutoMeasure facility, and most of the testing and troubleshooting is done at your facility.

©2008 AutoMeasure, an Arlington, Massachusetts company.

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