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USS Enterprises

Industrial systems engineering · since 2007

Any equipment. One system.

USS Enterprises designs, builds and maintains the chain that connects industrial machines, measurement devices and sensors to working software and accountable data — independent of who manufactured the equipment.

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  1. 01 Equipment
  2. 02 Edge
  3. 03 Connectivity
  4. 04 Data
  5. 05 Software
  6. 06 Business systems

The company

We work in the part of a process where hardware stops and software has not started yet.

Between a measuring instrument and the system that has to account for its reading, there is usually a gap filled by a person with a clipboard. USS removes that gap: an engineering device that can address the equipment, a configured transfer path, an application that presents the result, and an archive that can be produced on request.

The company was established in 2007 and has built these systems for processes where the measurement itself is the product — inspection, monitoring, recognition and control.

Established
2007
Base
Jūrmala, Latvia
Equipment
Vendor-independent
Deployment
On-premise capable

What we do

Four areas, one continuous chain.

Most suppliers own one link and hand over the rest. Each of these areas is a link we engineer ourselves, which is why they can be combined into a system that behaves as one.

All capabilities

What we build

From the machine to the record.

Six layers separate a physical reading from a decision someone is accountable for. USS engineers all of them, so no layer is designed around the limitations of a supplier who owns the next one.

Layer 01 — Physical

Machines, instruments and sensors already on site

Production machinery, measurement devices, test equipment and instrumentation — usually from several manufacturers, bought in different years, with no expectation of ever talking to each other.

  • Existing equipment is kept; replacing it is not a precondition
  • Mixed manufacturers and generations are the normal starting point
  • Physical preparation of equipment is part of commissioning

Capabilities

Things you can ask us to build.

An index rather than a brochure. Each line is a system type USS has engineering practice in.

  • Industrial data acquisition

    Readings taken from equipment automatically, at the moment they occur

  • Measurement systems

    Instruments driven, read and held to a defined procedure

  • Equipment integration

    Mixed-manufacturer estates brought under one interface

  • Monitoring systems

    Real-time status of a process, with history and forecasts

  • Object recognition

    Visual properties, weight, volume and other physical measures identified

  • Number recognition

    Identifiers read from image data and matched to the record

  • Image and video indexing

    Recorded footage synchronised with the measurement output

  • Custom information systems

    Built around the customer’s procedure, not a product’s assumptions

  • Central databases

    One archive that can be produced and defended later

  • System-to-system transfer

    Processed results handed on to the systems that account for them

  • Resource planning & accounting

    Work and the resources it consumes, planned automatically

  • Data protection

    Applied from physical intake at the device to the stored record

  • On-site installation

    Six defined stages, ending in documentation and training

  • Long-term maintenance

    Technical, preventive and corrective, under an agreed scope

  • Equipment modernisation

    Hardware and software updated as requirements change

  • Metrology & accreditation

    Equipment brought to the standard an inspectorate will accept

Engineering principle

Hardware, software and data are one problem.

Split them across three suppliers and the seams become the system’s weakest points. Kept together, they become the place the engineering value is.

  • Hardware

    Reach the equipment

    Interface modules, relay control and device-side firmware, built where standard IT hardware cannot go far enough into the process.

  • Software

    Operate the process

    Monitoring, recognition and workflow control, presented as the real-time status of the line rather than a database front end.

  • Data

    Account for the result

    Conversion, archiving, protection and onward transfer, so that what was measured can still be produced and defended later.

One team specifies the device, writes the firmware, builds the application and commissions it on site. When something is wrong in the chain, there is no boundary to argue across.

Selected technology

Built, installed and still running.

The clearest demonstration of the chain is the technology USS has productised around it.

Vehicle inspection technology

PTI lines, measured end to end.

An industrial device built on the PTI Business subsystem. It collects inspection data during the procedure and stores it centrally, while driving the measurement equipment on the line — regardless of who manufactured it.

  1. 01 Equipment
  2. 02 Workflow
  3. 03 Measurement
  4. 04 Data
  5. 05 Central systems
Power
12–30 V
Relays
8 NO / 8 NC
Interfaces
6 types
Connection ports
16

Measured on the line

  • Gas emission
  • Exhaust fumes
  • Lights
  • Speed
  • Brakes
  • Wheel alignment
  • Tyre pressure
  • Glass transparency
  • Noise
Explore the technology PTI product site

Universal monitoring system

USS.EYE

One platform behind every installation: it receives and processes data from sensors, measurement devices and control equipment, archives the result, hands it on to other systems, and controls the connected equipment centrally — without depending on the manufacturer or type of that equipment.

  • PTI Business

    Line management

    Automates periodic technical inspection: the queue, the equipment, the procedure and the record of what each measurement produced.

  • Resource Management

    Company operations

    Plans and accounts for the work itself — which jobs are running, what they consume, and what the company has left to commit.

  • Image Processing

    Visual evidence

    Ties recorded images to the measurement output, so a stored result can be looked at as well as read.

Platform detail

Engineering stack

What we connect to, and what we run on.

A deliberately conventional set. Longevity in industrial systems comes from interfaces that will still be supported in ten years, not from the newest available option.

  • Industrial interfaces

    Wired connections to instruments and control equipment

    • RS232
    • RS485
    • CAN
    • LON
    • Ethernet
    • USB

  • Wireless & telemetry

    Used where cabling to the position is impractical

    • Bluetooth
    • Wi-Fi
    • GSM 3G

  • Control & electrical

    Device-level actuation and power envelope

    • 8 NO / 8 NC relays
    • 16 connection ports
    • 12–30 V, 2 A
    • Expansion modules

  • Platform

    What the systems run on, and where

    • Linux
    • On-premise operation
    • No internet required
    • Central databases

  • Software & delivery

    How the system is presented and kept current

    • Web interfaces
    • Mobile & handheld clients
    • PDF reporting
    • Automatic updates

  • Integration

    Where processed information goes next

    • Transfer to other systems
    • File-based import
    • Google Workspace linkage
    • Vendor-independent equipment layer

Why USS

Six reasons that are checkable.

Each of these is a property of how the company works, stated alongside the fact it rests on.

  • 01

    Independent of equipment manufacturer

    Systems are built so the make and type of connected equipment is a configuration detail, not an architectural commitment. Replacing a device does not mean replacing the system around it.

    Stated as the principal benefit across USS service documentation

  • 02

    Hardware and software in one team

    The same engineers specify the interface device, write the firmware, build the application and commission it on site. Nothing is handed across a supplier boundary mid-chain.

    USS develops engineering devices and the software that drives them

  • 03

    Designed to run without the internet

    Operation does not depend on an external service being reachable. Sites that cannot expose their process to a public network run the same system.

    Ulark5 requires no internet connection; Linux, on-premise

  • 04

    Measurements that stand up to inspection

    Where results are subject to regulation, the equipment has to be metrologically correct and accredited. That work is inside the engagement, not left over afterwards.

    Metrology and accreditation are listed maintenance services

  • 05

    A maintenance model, not a warranty page

    Technical maintenance, product support, preventive inspection, updates and consulting are defined services with an agreed scope from the start.

    Six named post-handover services

  • 06

    Building these systems since 2007

    Long enough to have maintained installations across several generations of equipment, and to treat the years after commissioning as the real test.

    USS Enterprises established in 2007

The organisation

An engineering company, deliberately sized to stay technical.

USS Enterprises was established in 2007 and brings together a group of long-standing partners. The company builds data and information management systems and automates the processes that depend on them — each one adapted to the customer’s own procedure rather than the other way round.

Quality assurance sits with every employee at the stage the work happens, suppliers are treated as partners rather than a cost line, and the measure of a system is what it saves the customer once it is running.

About the company

Next step

Have an engineering challenge?

Tell us what has to be built, integrated or modernised. If the fit is wrong, we will say so early — that answer is cheaper for both sides than a proposal.

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