Our Services
Stardust Automation helps businesses and engineering organisations improve the way they work through bespoke software, process automation, system integration and specialist technical development.
Business & Excel Automation
Turn complex or labour-intensive spreadsheets into reliable automated tools.
This may involve improving an existing workbook, integrating Excel with other applications and databases, developing specialist Office add-ins, or replacing spreadsheet-based processes with purpose-built software where appropriate.
Typical projects include:
- Integrating excel with other systems
- Data validation and processing
- Office add-ins for Excel and Outlook
- API and database integration
- Modernising legacy VBA workflows
- Replacing business-critical spreadsheets with maintainable applications
Scientific & Industrial Software
Stardust Automation brings experience developing software that interfaces directly with scientific instrumentation and industrial control systems.
Previous work has included real-time spectrometer applications used within plasma-based heat-treatment processes, where spectral measurements at selected wavelengths were analysed and communicated to PLC systems responsible for process control.
Applications of these systems have included the treatment and hardening of high-performance engineered components, including components used within motorsport supply chains.
Capabilities include:
- Scientific instrument integration
- Real-time data acquisition
- Spectrum and signal visualisation
- Interactive wavelength selection
- PLC integration
- Industrial process monitoring
- Multiple-instrument systems
- Engineering and scientific data processing
Bespoke Development
When off-the-shelf software does not fit the problem, we can develop an application around the workflow.
This can include desktop applications, web applications, internal business systems, engineering utilities and specialist technical software.
Solutions are designed around the actual requirement rather than forcing an existing package to fit.
Legacy Modernisation
Industrial and scientific systems often remain in service far longer than the computers and instruments originally supplied with them.
Stardust Automation has experience maintaining and evolving specialist software alongside changing hardware platforms over periods exceeding a decade.
This has included upgrading applications originally designed for a single spectrometer to support dual-spectrometer configurations while retaining compatibility with different generations of instrumentation.
That experience is particularly valuable where replacing an entire working system would be expensive, disruptive or unnecessary.
We can help organisations extend the useful life of existing software by:
- Supporting newer generations of hardware
- Maintaining compatibility with established installations
- Migrating from single- to multi-device architectures
- Updating ageing Windows applications
- Replacing obsolete interfaces and components
- Introducing new functionality without requiring a complete system rewrite