Delcam Professional Services appoints Robert Richards as UK business development manager

Robert has transferred from Delcam's UK sales team, where he has spent the past 10 years working with customers of all sizes across a wide range of industries to increase their productivity and profitability through the application of Delcam software. Prior to that position, Rob spent six years in Delcam's International Support team, where he provided technical assistance to Delcam's global network of resellers. During this time, he also helped Delcam's development staff to create and prove out new toolpath technologies in conjunction with tooling suppliers. Robert is a graduate in CADCAM Studies from Brunel University, where he gained experience in developing component designs for the aerospace industry using FEA. Before joining Delcam, he had worked in two plastics companies, undertaking thermal and stress analysis of extrusion dies at the first, and manufacturing prototypes and initial production runs at the second. Delcam Professional Services was formed as an independent subsidiary in 2011, through the combination of Delcam's Professional Services Group and the company's former Tooling Services Division, which was renamed the Delcam Advanced Manufacturing Facility. The primary focus of Delcam Professional Services is to work with clients, mainly in the aerospace and power generation industries, to improve their manufacturing processes by increasing productivity, improving accuracy and shortening lead times. For the majority of projects, these improvements are achieved through the use of adaptive machining, Delcam's unique combination of machining and inspection technology.