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It's a small world
When Nick Searle needed to find an electronics design and manufacturing company to help with a new prestigious contract, he found the solution just a few hundred metres down the road.
In September 2003 CMT's sister company won a DTI SMART Award
to develop a condition monitoring sensor and electronics for an
offshore wind turbine application. To proceed with the project
CMT needed to find a company that could supply a full turnkey
service with a high level of design and test capability and rapid
prototyping of assembled PCBs.
The search turned up three or four companies that appeared qualified
to do the job but after visiting them all Nick Searle decided
to place a contract with Custom Interconnect Limited (CIL), a
company that is based just 300 yards from the CMT headquarters.
Nick was delighted with the discovery saying: "When I started
looking I had no idea that such a high level of capability was
available so close to hand. I could see from the CIL website that
the company could provide the skills and expertise that were required
and on my first visit I was impressed with the factory. The general
appearance was clean and tidy indicating a well kept facility
and the modern high technology assembly equipment such as the
flying probe tester was highly impressive."
He is also delighted with how the partnership is progressing
adding: "The first phase of the project has now been completed
with a high degree of success. I have been very pleased with the
performance of CIL in all aspects of materials management, test
and manufacture of the PCBs. We are now about to enter the next
phase of the project and we will certainly be using CIL again."
That, of course, is providing he cannot find anyone closer!
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