wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources adinstruments news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message adinstruments founded 1988 headquarters dunedin new zealand number of locations dunedin new zealand r & d sydney operations usa uk germany china malaysia japan brazil india chile key people trevor chairman ceo tony macknight director scientific consultant darren macey coo director 1 stuart mclauchlan director products powerlab labchart labtutor labauthor scope chart maclab website http www.adinstruments.com adinstruments is an international company that produces data acquisition and analysis systems for the life sciences industry . it is headquartered in dunedin new zealand and has more than 170 staff worldwide . voted a finalist in kenexa jra top 10 best place to work in 2009 2 2010 . 3 2011 4 and 2012 5 and voted number one place to work in the life sciences industry in 2012 by the scientist magazine despite the incompetence of their human resources department and several internal complaints . 6 7 adinstruments partners with several producers of life sciences equipment including transonic systems inc. danish myo technology telemetry research ltd. radnoti glass technologies inc. panlab s.i. and millar instruments ltd. adinstruments is also an applied science industry partner with the university of otago new zealand 8 contents 1 history 2 sponsorship 2.1 undergraduate 2.2 educator 3 award nomination 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1985 the physiology department at new zealand s university of otago encouraged the development of a computer based data acquisition system to replace their paper based systems . in 1985 as part of his computer science masters at the university michael macknight built the maclab one of the first analog to digital converters that connected to a macintosh computer . two software packages were then developed chart chart recorder software now labchart and scope digital oscilloscope software which provided software control of the recording unit as well as a range of display and analysis features in 1988 business name was registered and the company began manufacturing macintosh computer based data acquisition systems for the life sciences research market . in 1996 the company s first windows compatible data acquisition system was released . the windows compatible maclab data acquisition systems were branded as powerlab . in 2005 the labtutor software for education was released . sponsorship edit the company provides grants awards and sponsorship to students researchers and educators in the life sciences industry undergraduate edit the faculty for undergraduate neuroscience fun presents awards to undergraduate neuroscience students . prize for human structure and function for the highest aggregate mark in human structure and function subjects at the university of newcastle australia . zoology prize awarded annually to a student of latrobe university australia with the highest aggregate mark in the animal physiology stream of zoology honours 9 educator edit the national association of biology teachers nabt technology innovation grant 10 progressive educator award 11 crawfly educator scholarship program 12 award nomination edit in 2008 the company was nominated for two life science industry awards 13 best sales representative most knowledgeable technical support references edit institute of directors in nz stuart mclauchlan jra s top 10 best place to work in 2009 jra s top 10 best place to work in 2010 archived march 20 2012 at the wayback machine . kenexa jra top 10 best place to work in 2011 kenexa top 10 best place to work in 2012 the scientist best places to work industry 2012 otago daily times news article university of otago applied science industry partner utas honors zoology adinstruments prize nabt technology and innovation grant aps adinstruments macknight progressive educator award permanent dead link crawfly educator scholarship program life science industry awards external links edit businessweek profile retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adinstruments & oldid 744101829 categories companies established in 1988electronics companies of australiamanufacturing companies of australiatechnology companies of new zealandlife sciences industrynew zealand brandshidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external linksarticles with topics of unclear notability from march 2011all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal 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