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PRESS RELEASE: Using engineering to make life easier for medics

The latest news. For the last 20 years Bennett Engineering Design Solutions have been working with medical professionals at Kings College London to help solve the niggles in their working environment.

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A decade later

Celebrating a decade of employment at Bennett Engineering Design Solutions for Craig Harbron, a talented design engineer

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A piece of pride

A piece of pride Have you made something that you’re hugely proud of? Let us tell you a story (it is May which is storytelling month after all). Seleena bought her son’s plumb line in to show the team what he’d made in his machining module in his Toyota apprenticeship. John was exceptionally impressed with [...]

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Where does your magic happen?

The places where you can pull a solution out of a hat, or get people mesmerised with your tricks for moving a project on. Where are they? In this blog read about our places where magical stuff happens.

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Standardising materials

Are you clear on the benefits of standardising all the materials and components in your OEM or for your projects? No well read on…

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Is every idea a good one?

You’ve got this idea. The office often receives calls or emails asking for help with an idea. Everyone is looking to find the very best solution or come up with the right idea. You might just need a WOO engineer to check you are on the right path.

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Keeping the spotlight on why manufacturing matters from the £183billion it contributes to the economy to the reverence for Made in Britain products around the world.

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Can we talk about KIS?

The definition of complex and simple enables you to see why KISS is so important for engineering projects and always opting for simple

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Need more ginger for your project

Sometimes projects need a kickstart; removal of the ‘inflammation’ that might have occurred internally over the duration of the project helps…

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Pigs might fly

Cardiac operating theatres need to be efficient for the people working in them especially with medical innovations like pig heart transplants

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What are you designing for?

What do you want designing doesn’t provide enough to start a project; even though it’s important stuff to start off with….

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Looking to invest?

Are you wondering how to start a successful investment programme on your site?

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

When it comes to engineers there’s a lot of inspirational people from history whose innovation and intellect have given us the tools…

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Do the ongoing projects in your organisation stall when the summer holidays come around?

very year summer comes around and it’s long been considered as a ‘quiet period’. For some manufacturers this becomes a PERFECT time to get…

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An ingenious invention

Did you know that Percy Shaw invented reflective cats eye studs for our roads in 1934?

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How do you choose materials?

It’s Plastic Free July. Whilst this is a campaign to clear the oceans of plastics which hurt the creatures…

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What does AI mean to you as a manufacturer?

Artificial Intelligence as a sector has seen huge investment over the last few years and some would argue the UK are leading the way when it comes to AI…

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What’s the predictions for the UK manufacturing industry?

Did any of us who work in the manufacturing arena ever expect plant teams to be working from home?

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What are manufacturing and engineering drawings?

Are you wondering what manufacturing and engineering drawings are?

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Finding a Simple Solution

Sometimes people struggle to find a solution. Sometimes there are a range of solutions that will solve a challenge….

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Book worms

To celebrate world book day John and Craig have told us all about the latest book they have been reading.

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Which box?

What box? You know that phrase ‘think outside of the box’ what does it mean to you?…

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Was 2020 the year of review for you

Was 2020 the year of review for you? That’s exactly what the last few months of 2020 were here at Bennett Engineering Design Solutions….

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What’s the best way to start a project?

There are lots of project management principles, perhaps you have your own internal process or even a qualified project manager. As design engineers…

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Open for Business

2021 hasn’t really kicked off in the way many of us in the manufacturing and engineering sector, well maybe widen that to the nation, …

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When one becomes two

Seth was handed a set of broken water speakers and came up with the idea of making a giant water speaker that…

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What’s the big deal on tolerances?

There’s one thing you need to be clear on when you approach any mechanical design project and it’s this:…

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The importance of a whiteboard and conversations

Something our team likes to call ‘smart sketching, the Bennetts way’…

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What are your thoughts on factory automation?

One of the key trends highlighted is the ongoing automation that will continue to be deployed in …

Deploying tech faster than ever before

How has this year’s speedy move to the virtual arena impacted on your manufacturing business?

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How do you approach planning for your business?

The Bennett Engineering management team are, without sounding too geeky, planning fans. It’s in our nature as engineers…

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How a Riveted Sailing Ship was Built by Ian Ramsay

What amazed me about the whole process is that the desired shape of the ship, including every rib and…

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How do you celebrate your team’s accomplishments?

hen people perform it’s really important that it’s acknowledged, when people achieve something it’s…

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Challenge Solved, Next Challenge

It could be said that challenge is one of our favourite words. When the phone rings and an engineering…

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Craig’s Engineering Expertise to Bicycle Renovations

This hasn’t just been Engineering lessons, but also the intricacies of running a business…

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Benefits of 3D CAD Modelling

‘What are your Top 3 benefits of 3D CAD Modelling?’ asked the Bennett Engineering sales and marketing team…

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Seth Billings – The Exciting Projects that Lead To His Role at Bennett Engineering

The newest design engineer at Bennett Engineering has a lot more to offer than the recent completion of his Mechanical Engineering…

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Creativity and engineering as a hobby

Having been given the opportunity to sit with John Bennett, the founder and director of Bennett Engineering with 50 years of experience to offer…

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Design Calculations and Verification

Design Calculations & Verification Calculations are at the heart of Engineering Design. They play an essential part in a design being ‘right first time’, assisting in the delivery of performance without excessive cost. Calculations deliver certainty to project stakeholders that the design is suitable for the application. They are undeniable facts that stand up to [...]

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Teaching the Next Generation

I appreciate that some of the skills that I learned during my apprenticeship are now no longer relevant to mainstream engineering:..

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Mixing CAD and the Real World

It is truly astounding how the process of getting from an idea to a finished component has changed in my lifetime. I started out doing…

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Face to Face Networking

Believe me there aren’t many engineers who relish the idea of going into a room of strangers and actually talking to someone new. I got dragged into networking 14 years ago…

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A Design Engineer

Look around you, everything you see and use has been engineered in one way or another, either by nature or by you. We all like to find ways to…

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Accelerating Growth

We have all heard of a number of ways and methods to follow to increase business growth. The big question is “Where do I start?” We…

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Blog: Social Media & Us

I’ve never been very active on social media and I am far from an expert on it but I can see the value and potential it has. Don’t need to say that using social media as a…

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Blog: Visualising Designs

Communicating ideas could be a challenge sometimes, you can have a clear image in your head but don’t have the tools to communicate it or maybe it is just…

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Blog: Ideas & Problem Solving

I relish the challenge of an interesting problem and get a great sense of satisfaction from finding a practical and simple solution. However, problem solving is a…

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“The Project Approach”

The current wisdom seems to be: “find a niche market and exploit it”. However, the downside of this approach is that if some new technology comes along to replace your niche, what then?…

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“What Makes Us A Good Team” – Part 2: The Culture

In our business we get paid by clients who value and benefit from our innovation, ideas and problem solving. No valuable ideas = No money. Therefore, it is vitally important that we…

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“What makes us a good team” – Part 1: The People

Craig grew up in Dubai and spent his early years messing with and crashing motorbikes. He seems to have been the fixer of the household and took responsibility for…

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“How I got here”

How did I get to be sat here writing this blog????? How could I have strayed from the practical world of making things to sitting at a screen? On reflection, the answer is…

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“My first blog”

I’ve spent all of my working life involved in engineering of some sort or other. I like to learn how things work…

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