Vision Engineering shares expertise through Manufacturing Services Division

Managing director Mark Curtis is adamant that VEMS is not a consultancy but a hands-on project-based service provider able to draw on the 50 years spent building up Vision Engineering's global resource. Mr Curtis says: "We have structured Vision Engineering to optimise our business potential from marketing through ergonomic design, cost-effective manufacture, logistics and distribution in order to maximise our competitiveness in the world's key markets. This means what we like to define as total market expertise, has led to us being approached by companies seeking help on specific projects to satisfy areas where they may lack the technical or commercial resource in their current business structure." From being a design and engineering driven business backed by marketing and distribution in a highly technical arena, he maintains VEMS has the resource to bridge any "practicality gap" and move projects forward with ideas or concepts which may, for instance, otherwise be restricted due to a focus on the importance of function and performance. "This is where we can input elements such as design for production, market research and feedback of market demands and most important, in the cold light of day, assess at an early stage the overall viability of a project," he continued. Among services that can be drawn upon through VEMS is purchasing, cost amortisation, route-to-market in different countries for which many have wildly varying demands, patent protection and country approvals, shipping and subsequent marketing both in the UK and foreign fields. Design for manufacture is at the heart of Vision Engineering's operation at Woking. On site are facilities for full 3-D design and modelling, PCB and component design and rapid prototyping each adding a resource to make the design process shorter, more efficient, flexible and most important having a practical bias. This is supplemented with extensive international experience of patenting and design protection of its own front line metrology developments. VEMS also has access to an international marketing network with people based in the UK, Germany, Japan and the USA that can be called upon to input key activities that range from local advertising and PR to the production of multi-language technical user guides, market research and competitor and market analysis.