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Strength in aluminium
Mouldmaking is dead in the UK, right? Wrong! Dudley Associates has successfully built up a service offering around the fast delivery of high quality aluminium tooling. |
28/03/2008
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The science of engineering
You’d expect to find a WFL mill-turn machine in a large OEM’s works, but UK sub-contractor AE Precision is WFL’s smallest customer to date world wide for such a machine. It's just part of this company's scientific approach to business. |
27/03/2008
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Global marketplace
The Internet lexicon already boasts global, household brands such as eBay, PayPal and Amazon; MFG.com appears keen to join this exclusive club, at least as far as recognition in the global manufacturing community is concerned. |
20/03/2008
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Footprint strategy
Manufacturing Footprint Strategy – making the right things in the right places – is not simply a glamorised version of outsourcing, offshoring, restructuring or of locating production in emerging markets, emphasises the report’s authors - Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge. It is a new approach to the design and configuration of manufacturing plants across the world; the goal is the achievement of a co-ordinated network of operations working collectively at their best, not a collection of plants operating individually at top notch. |
18/02/2008
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A generation of achievement
In October last year, Nick Groom took over as managing director at sub-contractor Qualiturn. Just prior to the handover, founder Bernard Groom gave this account of his company’s progress. |
23/01/2008
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Global sourcing
MCT Mitchell Cotts, a specialist in the remanufacture of engines and gearboxes for automotive OEMs, uses online sourcing tools from MFG.com to find suppliers globally for obsolete components and for the hundreds of complex components that will be installed into an innovative marine propulsion unit. |
24/12/2007
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Better than standard
Formed component manufacturer Goss Components is using ISO/TS16949 as a springboard to even greater things. |
17/12/2007
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Informed engineering
Glasgow-based Castle Precision Engineering is run by a man who is part of an entrepreneurial family with an enviable record of success. IT is a crucial element. |
12/12/2007
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Going global in Leeds
The pursuit by Texas, US-based Lone Star Fasteners to expand its operations has most recently resulted in the opening of the new Lone Star factory in Leeds, this following UK-based acquisition/merger activity. |
15/11/2007
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Investing in a future
Milltech Precision Engineering has come a long way in a short space of time. Founded in 1993 by Geoff Plummer, the company was subject to a management buy-out in 2004,a move that has served to catapult the company to the forefront of the sub-contract market. Current managing director Mike Ottolangui, who spearheaded the MBO with partners Bernard Smith (technical director) and Darren Osborne (production director), says that the company was in much need of an investment boost. |
24/10/2007
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Secure trade
A new, voluntary trading scheme designed to improve security in the transport of goods will affect manufacturers in international supply chains, whether they do or do not export or import directly. |
15/10/2007
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Control or inspect
Manufacturers are fully familiar with the alternatives of establishing and then regularly monitoring a capable process to assure output quality, or of inspecting products after the event to capture failures. Well, the EU Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status, which will affect manufacturers, is akin to the former – establishing a process that will guarantee, in this case, the safety and security of goods traded internationally. |
15/10/2007
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New dawn at Carlton Laser
Having doubled floors pace to 34,000 ft2, Carlton Laser Services has populated its additional area with shrewd investments, making it one of the most progressive UK sub-contract fabricators. |
14/08/2007
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No standing still
When precision sub-contract machinist Unicut Precision based in Welwyn Garden City acquired the loss-making sub-contract turning company A J Clarke (Automatic Machinists) of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire in December 2005, Unicut was riding the crest of the wave. Sales were up on 2004 by 28 per cent with some 40 per cent of orders taken from export contracts in the US, Canada and Germany. In that year the two directors Jason Nicholson and Charles Kenny had just completed a project to double the floor space in the Welwyn Garden City machine shop to 12,500 ft2 by taking on the building next door and at that time 18 people were employed. |
20/06/2007
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Tooled up for multi-tasking
Multi-tasking machine tools require complementary tooling systems. Sub-contractor Oxford Engineering has implemented such a system and has witnessed benefits. |
12/06/2007
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Millennium woman
A recently set-up Black Country presswork company is thriving, having spotted a business niche; it is headed up by 25-year-old Anna Stevenson. |
08/06/2007
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Worthy of note
There's still room in the UK for 'traditional' industries such as pressworking and coldforming. But success is more about strategy and vision than investing in latest technology, it seems. |
06/06/2007
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First 6 kW laser lands in UK
Just five years ago, a 3 kW laser profiling centre was considered powerful. Making rapid evolutionary progress, 4 and 5 kW variants set new benchmarks. However, the installation in November 2006 of a 6 kW Bystronic Bystar 3015 at the Bristol manufacturing facility of Precision Profiles represents a new landmark in what has become a trailblazing technology sector. The machine allows the company to not only cut far thicker material, but also process thinner sheet considerably quicker. |
15/05/2007
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Virtual gets real
The UK’s first installation of Amada’s Virtual Prototype Simulation System (VPSS) has been made. Taking automation to new heights. Around 30 VPSS suites are functioning in Japan, but the first system outside Japan has just been implemented in the UK – the pioneer is Essex-based Harlow Group.
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11/05/2007
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5-axis software secrets
High quality, often automated 5-axis machines, yes, but know-how captured in its own CAM software is where Turbocam has its differentiator. |
04/05/2007
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Investment pays off for go-ahead sub-contractor
Di-Spark Group's managing director David Light has changed his company out of all recognition over recent years. Investment in leading edge technology together with customer focus have been pivotal. But it wasn't all plain sailing. |
16/04/2007
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Black gold rush
China and India are driving global demand for oil as they grow their economies and compete with the UK's manufacturing sector into the bargain. But this country's oil equipment manufacturing sector is a beneficiary, as are sub-contractors to companies within that area of activity. |
30/01/2007
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Capacity in Cornwall
Rather than resign itself to the fate that has befallen many manufacturing firms in Cornwall, WES and a group of other small engineering companies, is fighting back. |
13/12/2006
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More than just money
Barton Cold-Form’s managing director reflects on the West Midlands Accelerate initiative. It’s not just about the money, he says. |
01/12/2006
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