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News Release from: CIL Custom Interconnect | Subject: Electronics design and manufacturing
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 July 2004
Gloabal search provides local solution
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.
When Nick Searle, Managing Director of Whitchurch-based sensor company Condition Monitoring Technologies, needed to find an electronics design and manufacturing company to help with a new prestigious contract, he decided to search the Internet He did not expect that his worldwide search would throw up a company that was ideal for his purposes and based just a few hundred metres down the road
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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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 Searle decided to place a contract with Custom Interconnect (CIL), a company that is based just 300m from the CMT headquarters.
Searle 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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