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Aberlink
an awful lot of books on creativity and finding that spark that suddenly makes you think,‘ Why don’ t we do this?’ And a shout across the office, followed either by the reply‘ Hey, that might work’, or it’ s completely shot down in flames – which is also fine!” Marcus elaborates.“ The important thing is to have the ideas, ensure they’ re openly discussed, and at least every 18 months one will stick.”
Marcus accentuates how important physical environment is in reinforcing such accessibility.“ There’ s a well-known expression in management comprising of‘ my door is always open.’ As the company owner, I don’ t even have a door because I sit where everybody else is – we all just talk to each other across the office,” Marcus states.
Aberlink’ s inspiration and ingenuity led to it being recognized for breakthrough work on Delta mechanisms, used in the design of its Extol CNC CMM, with the 2024 King’ s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. Often associated with pick and place machines, Delta mechanisms can be extremely quick but not always accurate.“ We managed to come up with a way of mapping all the errors on the Extol machine,” shares Marcus.“ We were the first to error map it in order to reach 2.5-micron metrology accuracy.”
Moving forward, the company’ s current development priorities are focused on gear measurement software driven by electric vehicle adoption.“ Electric cars are intrinsically much quieter, so consumers are noticing the whine from gears,” explains Marcus.“ Gear inspection has suddenly had much more interest, and we want to be the leaders of this technology. We want something useful to feedback from inspection to the manufacturing process, to monitor the
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