Encouraging signs for 2010

It is a long time since I posted anything here. Happy New Year to anyone who reads this.

We seemed to turn an economic corner around Autumn last year. There was a noticeable upturn in the number of enquiries I was receiving in November, and then things started to get very busy indeed in December. The level of work has continued into this year - I've been away training for most of the last two weeks, and have a reasonable number of courses booked in for the next couple of months.

In the last few days, I've even had an enquiry from a company in the automotive supply chain, the sector which was probably hardest hit of all in the downturn, so all around there seem to be positive signs of recovery.

During the quieter bits of 2009, I became a licenced deliverer of some of the metrology courses offered by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and I intend to expand that area of activity in 2010. These courses teach the fundamentals of measurement and inspection, and are a perfect fit with the geometrical tolerancing training that I offer already. It means that we should be able to provide a seamless, and fully consistant, series of training programmes across the disciplines of design, manufacture and inspection.

One area of particular interest is Large Volume Metrology, where laser scanners or trackers are used to scan large components or assemblies to very high levels of accuracy. The aerospace insdustry is starting to use this technology extensively, and it also has applications in other industries.

New Years Resolution - to try and keep this blog updated more frequently.