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01.02.2012

CAN-education in Finland
TKE is arranging CAN-basics education at Tampere, Finland 23.02.2012.

Lessons include:
- Physical layer/cabling, connectors, topologies, transfer   rates and its effects
- Hubs and switches in CAN network
- Transfer layer/frame-structure, principles of data transfer
- Application layers protocols
- Physical layers typical fails and toubleshooting

Lessons are kept in Finnish

For attending this course and for more information contact: info@tke.fi

09.01.2012

CANtrace 3.10 Released
Customer feedback have been heard and new features have been added into new version of CANtrace

New or changed features

- Support for several Peak-interfaces at the same time   instead of one
- Old configuration files can be used, as long the file format   is the same
- New, modern design for about-box
- Softing-interface support removed
- Send-tab renewed for easier use

07.09.2011

CAN Education in Tampere
TKE will arrange two CAN courses in Tampere 13-14.10.2011

CAN basics and CANopen basics

13.10.2011 - CAN basics
- Physical layer / cabling, connectors, topologies,
   baudrates
- Using HUB's and Switches in CAN networks
- Errortypes and fault diagnostics in physical layer

14.10.2011 - CANopen basics
- Overview of CANopen
- Design basics
- Object dictionary
- Protocolls and services
- NMT statemachine
- Default connection set

More information: info@tke.fi

27.06.2011

Exploring opportunities
TK Engineering (Vaasa, Finland) and Juniper Systems (Logan, Utah) have today announced an agreement to explore opportunities for developing a closer co-operation. The two companies have complementary strengths within areas such as rugged handheld computer equipment and CAN-systems.

TK Engineering offers it's CANtrace monitoring and analysis software to be used in Juniper's rugged PDA platforms. Juniper Systems offers intuitive field computing solutions for rugged applications. The newest addition to Juniper family is the Mesa, worlds first rugged notepad which is suitable for service personnel performing CAN-analysis in the field.

In addition, opportunities for closer co-operation in certain geographical areas will be achieved.
Juniper Systems will bring us a helping hand on the US market, our aim with the co-operation is together offer complete solutions for the end-user says Timo Kesti, CEO of TK Engineering Oy.
The TKE CAN-software packages will be further developed to suit Juniper's ruggedized platforms. Also customizing of the packages are possible.

I am excited about moving forward together to offer this solution and hope to find a nice market here in the USA/North America says DeVon Labrum, Director of Sales & Marketing at Juniper Systems. This co-operation with TK Engineering opens up new possibilities for Juniper Systems ruggedized platforms in new application areas, he continues.

25.05.2011

TKE is IFM certified integration partner
TKE has been selected as a certified integration partner to control system manufacturer IFM Electronic.

The role of the system integration partner is to provide system level solutions, such as system design, system testing and verification, to customers using automation components from IFM Electronic.

We are very excited to see what this brings, and surely it will be a challenge to learn the IFM system components.

But with the excellent support and cooperation from IFM Electronic, we believe that initial thresholds will be quickly passed, says Timo Kesti, CEO of TKE.

More information: info@tke.fi

31.03.2011

CANopen Tech Day in Tampere
TKE arranges CANopen Tech Day together with Vector Informatik GmbH in Tampere, Finland on 7.6. 2011.

The agenda for the Tech Day is the following:

08:30 - Coffee
09:00 - Address of welcome
09:15 - Competitive advantages using CANopen tools
10:00 - Coffee break
10:30 - Generating CANopen databases, simulations and EDS files
11:00 - CANopen design flow - practical design example
11:30 - Generating conformance tests for CANopen devices
12:00 - Break
12:15 - Application testing using VT system
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - Open discussion, questions and answers, possibility to test your own CANopen devices

Please submit your registration no later than 10.5. 2011 to info@tke.fi

More information about the event: info@tke.fi

Welcome!

09.02.2011

CANtrace 3.9 released
This version has got 3 major improvements. The new send-window can now handle DBC-format which means that the user can pick messages he wants to send to the bus, from database-files.

The second new improvement is the CANopen nodescanner tab that shows the "livelist" of connected CANopen-nodes. The livelist shows the NMT-state of the CANopen-node. It is also possible to change the nodes NMT-state from this window.

Now it is also possible to analyze J1939-networks since CANtrace supports Transport Protocol, used by J1939-protocol.

15.10.2010

CANopen education in Tampere
TK Engineering Oy will arrange a CANopen education 10.11.2010 in Tampere.

The course will feature CANopen basics, network management, design, troubleshooting and life cycle management.

Course language is Finnish.

For more information and course registration, please contact info@tke.fi.

29.9.2010

TKE offers education
Next education is planned to be held 12.10.2010 in Tampere.

This course covers everything in CAN basics starting from physical layer, cabling, topologies and ending with fault diagnostics on physical layer.

Course is held in Finnish language.

Apply to course or ask for more information by sending an email to info@tke.fi

16.4.2010

TKE announces a new valvedriver
CJVD-10 Valvedriver is a new approach to integrate existing hydraulic valves with CANopen-network. This unit gives a very cost efficient CANopen interface individually for each coil. Thanks to it's design it can be mounted to most valves on the market.

New advanced features

- Closed loop current control
- Dither
- Tyco JPT and Deutch DT06 -connectors

Official product launch will be in Bauma exhibition. Welcome to see and feel new valvedriver there.

1.1.2010

TKE announces www.canopen.fi
TKE has released a new website in Finnish for promotion of CANopen, www.canopen.fi The aim of the website is to make material and knowledge available in Finnish in a simple and easy way. On www.canopen.fi one can find articles as well as a dictionary and other information regarding CAN and CANopen.

Please feel free to visit www.canopen.fi.

14.10.2009

CANtrace 3.5 released
The new CANtrace version features a new and improved Graph window for signal representation.

CANtrace now saves configurations in XML for better compatibility, and the last used configuration is automatically loaded at startup.

Another important feature is the replay functionality. It is now possible to post analyze log files created with CANtrace.

7.9.2009

TKE at Automaatio fair
TKE will be attending the Automaatio fair in Helsinki 23-25 Sept. Automaatio is the largest automation fair in Finland. TKE will display own products as well as partner products.
You are welcome to visit us at booth 6F11.

30.8.2009

Application Notes
TKE Application Notes are now available online at Company -> Application Notes

22.6.2009

WCS-10 now GL certified
The WCS-10 CANswitch from TKE has now been certified for marine use by Germanischer Lloyd, certificate number 75 189-09 HH.

WCS-10 is now certified for environmental category D, EMC 1 as well as software class 3.

Extensive tests have been performed at test facilities in Finland in order to achieve the type approval certificate.

WCS-10_GL_Type_Approval.pdf

27.5.2009

CANtrace now with extended hardware support
CANtrace from TKE Oy now has the widest interface support on the market. The latest addition to the supported interfaces is Softing CAN-interfaces. The implementation is based on the Softing CAN API, which means that all Softing interfaces are supported (PCMCIA, USB, PCI etc.)

CANtrace now supports Castor, Kvaser Vector and Softing hardware interfaces as standard. Customer specific hardware support is also available upon request.

23.3.2009

TKE Oy delivered electronics for controlling lighting sequences of a light show which resulted one of the worlds largest CAN-network with 750 CAN-nodes.
The system is controlled trough five WCS-10 CANswitches. It contains a total of 27000 led lights.

1.2.2009

The Download section of the TKE website is now available.

From the Download section you are able to download demo versions of TKE software.
You will also find manuals, EDS files, firmware etc. for our hardware products.

16.1.2009

TK Engineering Oy and TRIV Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd have today signed an agreement covering sales and distribution of TKE-products in China.

Triv is a high-tech company specialized in Automotive testing and control. They have established themselves as a renowned developer, marketer and supplier of hardware and software, with an emphasis on professional core technology and excellent products, TRIV provides end users, systems integrators, and OEM's a better solution.

We are very happy to announce this co-operation with TRIV and we are hoping that we together with TRIV can offer complete solutions for Service-, Production- and R&D-engineers working in the CAN and CANopen-field.