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Industry News
UK-BASED specialist measurement
technology company Optical Metrology
Services (OMS) Ltd has announced the
appointment of Richard Brown as the
company’s products engineering manager.
Based at OMS’ UK office in Bishop’s
Stortford, Mr Brown will head up the
company’s tools division, which is
responsible for maintaining OMS’ growing
fleet of service tools used on inspection
contracts in the UK and overseas. The
tools division also manufactures custom
inspection tools and software for specific
inspection projects.
He returns to the UK from New Zealand,
where he spent eight years working as a
product development engineer at Steelbro
(NZ) Ltd, a manufacturer of self-loading
trailers, mobile cranes and sidelifters.
Mr Brown brings a wealth of experience
in embedded control systems development,
compliance and software architecture to
OMS. In 2006 he won the IPENZ Excellence
in Engineering Award for Electrical
Systems for his invention, the SMARTlift,
a microcontroller-based control system for
sidelifters, which incorporates a novel safe
working envelope control algorithm. Prior to
moving to New Zealand in 2002, he spent
one year working as a consultant engineer
for Optical Metrology Centre, a spin out
business from City University London,
which offered products and consultancy in
3D measurement using Photogrammetric
techniques and pipe measurement using
proprietary profiling tools.
Mr Brown commented: “Eight years ago,
I helped to design some of OMS’ original
pipe profiling tools, which have since gained
acceptance as the gold standard in pipe
measurement. The opportunity to come
back to OMS was too good to miss out on
and I am very excited about the future and
the new possibilities on the horizon for the
company and its growing range of pipe
inspection tools.”
OMS is a specialist measurement
technology company that provides
measurement services and precision
measurement systems to the oil and gas
industry. A key focus for the company is
in the dimensional measurement of oil and
gas pipes or other similar structures such
as aero engines, process industry tubes
or manufactured cylindrical objects, where
dimensions are critical.
OMS – UK
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OMS appoints Brown as engineering manager