AUTOMOTIVE
Designing for Body in White, supporting customer build phases
Rover,Land Rover,BMW,Jaguar,Nissan
Valeo and Rockwell International being major suppliers of design solutions for the automotive industry were one of the best platforms to learn and progress in product design.
Working in a team of various disciplines liaising with and meeting the car manufacturer's development and validation process.
Scaled development and test cycles to culminate with vehicle launch mass manufacture.
Electrical / Electronic / Hardware
HEATING
Design to surpass industrial standards and the companies future product evolution
Boiler design for systems up to 1MegaWatt
Hamworthy Heating being one of the best companies to work for and the perfect introduction into commercial and industrial boiler design and manufacture.
Working to overcome space and cost constraints.
A medium volume production environment.
Electrical / Electronic / Hardware
SMT AUTOMATION
A high precision, high specification enviroment that requires innovation to promote machine sales.
SMT Printer Design and Assembly
ASM Assembly Systems’ Printing Solutions Division is the market-leading provider of DEK brand printing technologies. The DEK range of products and services includes advanced materials deposition technologies and support solutions used for a variety of electronics assembly, semiconductor packaging and alternative energy applications.
Designing for future and sustaining needs. A medium volume environment where the Takt time goes alongside quality,
Electrical / Electronic / Software / Hardware
Architectural Manufacturing
Designing new products to compete with other manufacturers both in cost and function.
Newman Tonks was my first employer a manufacturer of architectural hardware running often batch manufacture.
Arthur Shaws was another early employer whose architectural products were aimed at the vast UPVc widows and door market. Designing locks ad latches etc for high volume low cost
A mix of production environments ranging from mass market of the Upvc Door & Window industry with high volume to Architectural products with small batch sizes.
Hardware.