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High Performance Engineering Inkjet Systems Integration

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KW Special Projects Ltd (KWSP)

• KW Special Projects Ltd is a young dynamic engineering team with

a variety of engineering technology skills and a “can do”

ethos born out of a motorsport environment where ‘speed’

and ‘high performance’

make the difference.

• KWSP was established in 2012 by Kieron Salter, also Managing Director of KW Motorsport Ltd (KWM) to facilitate the growing diversification of the non-

motorsport engineering requirements of the high performance technology sector.

• Rapid growth and development in it’s first year, including investment in new members of staff and larger premises.


Facilities

• Based in prestigious new premises close to Mercedes AMG PETRONAS

F1 facilities in Brackley, in the heart of “Motorsport Valley”

and part of a concentration of over 1000 companies in Northamptonshire that form the “High Performance Technologies Cluster”.

• KWSP, Unit 6 has the ability to facilitate large projects including design engineering, on-site assembly, testing, R&D and commissioning.


What We Do

• KWSP is an engineering company, supplying and manufacturing High

Performance and specialist automated industrial machines and Inkjet solutions.

• KWSP is the only UK based high quality, precision, industrial, applications based systems integrator of Inkjet technology, software, chemistry and

mechanical engineering design.

• KWSP offers project management and consultancy, CAD design, integration solutions, product development, assembly, prototyping, programming and software. All benefited by our innovative motorsport background,

knowledge and ‘disruptive’

attitude.

• KWSP has engineered machines that are capable of producing large

images intended for decoration and smaller machines designed to deposit

delicate patterns onto to a fragile substrate.

• Inkjet can be used for the accurate deposition of any functional

fluid, such as coatings, conductive materials and bio inks.


What We Do

• Other possible applications for Inkjet include –

printed circuit boards, printed 3dimensional skin cell structures, stem cells, solar panels and smart materials in textiles.

• Useful applications for this technology are numerous because of its potential for flexibility and increased productivity.

• Inkjet printing is highly cost and time efficient because it reduces waste and speeds up production times due to the controlled amount of fluid

and defined pattern in deposition.

• Inkjet is a complex technology that combines a number of engineering and scientific disciplines to create 24/7 production solutions.


Capability

• Systems integration and specialism in industrial Inkjet printers

for manufacturing industrial decoration.

• Industrial Automation.

• High Performance engineering experience gained from a broad range high tech market sectors.

• Motorsport knowledge provides alternative approaches to projects

through an exchange of technology, for example the benefits of developing and applying composites and light weight structures, which result in efficient engineering solutions.

• PLC Programming and Software Engineering

• CAD design –

Solidworks Pro 2013


Kieron SalterManaging Director

Chinia GreenCompany Assistant

Ian JonesSenior EngineerXennia Projects

Vinny ViswanathMSC Engineer

Simulation

Michal ZolkiewskiPlacement Engineer

Mechanical

Andrew SokoloffDesign Engineer

Mechanical

Steve WalkerDesign Engineer

MechanicalControl Engineer

Electronics Engineer

Design EngineerInkjet Systems

KW Motorsport LtdOther KWSP

projects

Organisation


Kieron Salter, Managing Director

Kieron is at the heart of both KWSP and KWM and actively promotes the ethos of “innovative technologies & unique solutions”. His background in motorsport has equipped him with extensive experience in project management and

High Performance Engineering.

Professional Experience:

• KW Special Projects Ltd, Managing Director –

2012-

Present• KW Motorsport Ltd, Managing Director –

2003 -

Present• McLaren Automotive, Principle Engineer -

2005 –

2006 • Reynard Motorsport, Head of Special Projects –

2001 –

2002 • Reynard Motorsport, Various –

1993 –

2002

Qualifications:

• B. Eng. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, Oxford Brookes University• HND Mechanical Engineering, Oxford Polytechnic• Member, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE


Ian Jones, Senior Engineer

Ian is a highly capable Mechanical Engineer with experience in the full machine life cycle, project management, systems integration and design. He excels at developing unconventional solutions to complex automation problems.


• KW Special Projects Ltd, Senior Engineer, Industrial Automation• ITCM (Part of Molins PLC), Mechanical Engineer -

2004 –

2012• IMI plc., Graduate Training Program -

1998 –

2004IMI Cornelius (Brands Dispense),

Qualifications:

• B. Eng. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Diploma in Industrial

Studies, University of Birmingham

• Member, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE


Vignesh Viswanath, Control Engineer

Vignesh (Vinny) is responsible for designing dynamic motion system analysis and software programming for projects as well as being skilled in CAD and modeling (Solidworks 2013).


• KW Special Projects Ltd/ KW Motorsport ltd, Automation Engineer • Ashok Leyland Ltd, Engineering Intern -

2008 –

2009 • Radio Astronomy Centre, Engineering Intern –

2006 –

2007

Qualifications:

• BE Mechanical Engineering, Karunya University, India• MSc Motorsport Engineering, Oxford Brookes• Member, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE


Stephen Walker, Design Engineer

Stephen is an accomplished designer working with CAD and engineering tools (Solidworks 2013) to create designs with a high level of accuracy attention to detail.


• KW Special Projects Ltd/ KW Motorsport Ltd, Design Engineer• Force India F1, Model Designer –

2007 –

2011• Transense

Technologies, Design Engineer –

2005 –

2006 • Ray Mallock

Ltd, Design Engineer –

2004 –

2005 • Ascari

Cars, Body Engineer –

2003 –

2004

Qualifications:

• Automotive Engineering B.Eng. (Hons), Oxford Brookes University


Objectives

• Continue to develop industrial Inkjet Printing systems integration and solutions.

• To expand the business into medical, aerospace, defence and industrial automated sectors.

• Continuation of distinctive service and to provide unique effective approaches in the High Performance engineering sector .

• Build the world’s most important technology teams and attract high calibre engineers and scientists with a wealth of experience and also those that have new ideas to create break through technology.

• Promote a passion for new technologies and innovative solutions.

• Applying a ‘disruptive’

and non-conventional approach to the integration of new processes and technologies through the transfer of knowledge and

cross fertilisation of sectors.


High Performance Engineering

• Systems integration of High Performance industrial automated machines for Inkjet fluid deposition applications.

• Carbon Composite analysis, design, manufacture and testing.

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) used to model ink flow, thermal analysis in fluids and air, air flows within area of ink deposition, impact of environment on drop placement.

• Sophisticated control systems for complex motion systems, PLC system design, specification and programming.

• Full CAD engineered systems and components in Solidworks Pro 2013 environment.

• Engineers with experience in Motorsport, Automotive and Industrial Machine design, installation and commissioning.


Composite Structures

• In industrial High Performance machine design Carbon Composites can have many significant benefits and on balance of function and capability can provide cost effective solutions to some of the engineering problems encountered in precision and high speed motion control.

• Carbon Composites can be fabricated into very light, very stiff structures.

• Carbon Composites have very high stability to thermal expansion with thermal expansion coefficients of nearly zero -

unmatched by aluminium and most steels.

• Composites can be moulded into very complex structures that can include by-product features such as cable management, accessibility features and form factors not achievable in other fabrications allowing for a significant reduction in parts count by intelligent design and high level system integration.


CAE & Simulation

• Using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) including CFD and FEA, KWSP can model and simulate the virtual environment of the ink systems and printing environment and machine to ensure any critical parameters are maintained.

• For example Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be used to simulate and solve many of the engineering challenges in managing fluids either within the system, or within the operating environment of the system.

• CFD can model the complete ink path for solving simple flow efficiencies or thermal analysis within the fluid.

CFD Visualisation


Technology Transfer

• Carbon Composite Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) are commonly used in High Performance applications such as Motorsport and Aerospace.

• The benefits of being able to create very light, very strong integrated functional moulded structures in relatively low production volumes maybe obvious in Motorsport and less so in Inkjet….

• KWSP designed and manufactured a composite structure that weighed only 30% of the equivalent traditional aluminium structure and also facilitated other significant benefits, including -

better access for service, increased stiffness, print head positional tolerance, temperature stability (CFRP thermal expansion coefficient is nearly Zero) and in addition incorporated ventilation, cooling and full cable and pipe management systems.

Complete Carbon Fibre Assembly


KWSP adopts a ‘disruptive’

approach to providing advanced and efficient solutions in the High Performance Engineering and Technology sector.


Contact

We are based at Reynard Park in Brackley –

home of the Mercedes F1 grand prix team

KW Special Projects Limited.Unit 6Reynard Park BrackleyNorthantsNN13 7RP

Email: [email protected]: +44 1280 704768

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