The department started in February 2017 when I was recommended to Kingsbury by our principal Haas Schleifmaschinen Gmbh. I had worked with Haas previously on an innovative solution for turbine blade manufacturing during my time as an engineer in the aerospace sector.
I now operate as the Business Development Manager for the division and promote all aspects of our principal’s technology as we support the growing market in the UK & Ireland.
I started my journey with Grinding straight after my apprenticeship in 1994 and I’ve grown with the technology from NC, 3 axis re-cip/creep feed machinery and into today’s 5 axis adaptive grinding solutions. My background has been to create complex, robust processes that can be owned and maintained in high production environments by production teams.
With this background, I can consider all factors that make a grinding process function well, coolant requirements, wheel selection, work holding, wheel conditioning, process harmonics, training needs and support and look beyond just the purchase of the equipment to ensure we are providing to the customer expectations.