Smartscope tech puts spring in Adwin’s step
this will affect our members at Derby and in the wider supply chain. The factory in Derby is highly successful and has secured a number of significant new orders in recent months.
“The Derby train factory is a world-class facility and employs a highly skilled and dedicated workplace. Cuts in jobs would be extremely short-sighted.”
In recent years, the Litchurch Lane site has been successful in winning a string of new orders for its Aventra train. It has landed sizeable deals from customers including Crossrail (now Elizabeth Line), London Overground, South West Trains, Greater Anglia and West Midlands Trains. It has enough work to keep it busy into the 2020s and, next year, is set to deliver a record number of trains.
Some reports have suggested the bulk of the 5,000 job cuts – as many as 3,000 – could be made in Canada, where the firm is headquartered. There have also been suggestions most will be made in Bombardier’s aerospace business, which has been struggling with a multi-billion pound debt incurred during the development of an aircraft. multi-sensor SmartScope systems can gauge the characteristics of even the most complex parts quickly and without human error, leading to better quality, reduced scrap and increased throughput.
Will Hayes, quality manager at West Bromwich-based Adwin, said: “Before we purchased the OGP we used traditional measuring methods of Vernier calipers, micrometers and shadowgraphs. With a lot of those methods you can get different people getting different readings that can be quite inaccurate.
“We were looking for an alternative method because our customers were demanding more accurate results as well as different types of reports and feature sets to what we were traditionally using, as well as 3D measurements. So we looked into different methods such as laser scanning and other noncontact companies, but found OGP UK to offer the best product.
“We needed a non-contact form of measurement as a traditional CMM [coordinate measuring machine] would move the springs instead of making a definite assessment.”
Backed by intuitive and simple-to-operate software, the OGP CNC 300 machine purchased by Adwin utilises a high-quality A FORMER Uttoxeter student is celebrating success after his new book on business and management has been published.
Tom Morris, a 24-year-old former Thomas Alleyne’s High School pupil, hopes his book, Unburdened by Youth, can help a new generation of entrepreneurs.
After leaving Alleyne’s sixth form in 2011, Tom went on to work on construction sites around the UK on projects such as wind farms and housing developments, before becoming a qualified civil engineer.
After writing what he describes as his “mini-manual for managers”, he is still seeking new methods to help businessmen and women – as well as whole companies – and hopes to one day set up a business of his own.
Unburdened By Youth comprises 15 lessons, with titles ranging from discipline to responsibility. Tom says he wants people to learn about their jobs and believes his lessons are useful in other industries.
He said: “It is with that experience that I decided that I would write a short book called Unburdened By Youth about the challenges of managing people from a young age.
“It’s a situation which I believe everyone faces yet all management books out there are written by established managers.” auto-calibrating camera and supports a combination of touch probes, micro probes and laser scanners.
It is designed for use on the shop floor and, across a multitude of industry applications, collects detailed data quickly, precisely, reliably and automatically. Working with more accurate and realtime statistics, from a single reference point, means tighter control of production processes, as any issues can be identified and remedied immediately. Will Hayes