Business: - Manufacturers of materials testing machines.

Area of work: - Design and development of load and displacement sensing equipment, for use at high and low temperatures and in automated production.

Technology: - Use of strain gauges and other sensors, precision mechanisms, electronics and the integration of computers into test and measuring systems.

Business: - Manufacturers of flight simulators

Area of work: - Design of simulated cockpit instruments and control panels.

Technology: - Small mechanisms and electronics.

Business: - Manufacturers of probing and other systems for quality control in production.

Area of Work: - Design and development of mechanisms for the automatic orientation of probes on co-ordinate measuring machines.

Technology: - Kinematic locations and indexing mechanisms. Instrument gearbox design. DC servo control and microprocessor integration. Sub-micron measurement. Design for CNC machining. 3-D solid modelling.

Awards: - Played a major part in the design of the range of motorised heads which were selected for a Design Council Award and was then mechanical designer of one of the Design Council Millennium Products.