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Recently launched by Aberlink, the Halo CMM is the perfect mid-sized CMM for use in an inspection department or on the shop floor. The price is also extremely competitive when compared to other international CMM brands.
One-O-Five Precision , was founded by Richard Pratt in January 2021 and has grown to be an up-and-coming name in the Cumbrian Engineering Sector,
After gaining qualifications and on the job training in machining and building up a reputation for his work whilst employed at Bendalls Engineering, Richard’s dream was to create and grow his own company.
One-O-Five was named after Richards keen interest in Motorsport, in particular, Motocross and gives remembrance to his close friend Lee Tolson, someone who he looked up to dearly. Lee raced under the number 105 and was well known in the Cumbrian Motocross Community.
Starting with just a 46m² workshop, Richard’s first purchase was an XYZ 710 Mill and then a XYZ CT52 lathe. In October 2021 he moved into the bigger ‘Unit 2’. During the 1½ year occupancy of unit 2, life was extremely busy, Richard explains: “I was working 90-hour weeks, doing whatever it took to satisfy customer requests. It was commonplace for me to travel 300 miles to pick up a part or piece of material just to get a job done.
"Not only being the best value-for-money CMM out there, we save more money by not having to pay for ongoing software maintenance, which means the running costs are also limited to only the annual service and calibration of our CMM!”"
We’ve now moved to a purpose-built 750m² factory, Unit 1. We’ve admin offices, staff canteen, meetings rooms and enough space to expand in the coming years.”
The One-O-Five team has grown since 2021, with Adam Warwick joining in 2022 as Workshop Foreman and Louie Burns as Apprentice. 2023 saw Scott Davidson join the team, bringing 10+ years of machining experience. He was also joined by Holly Moss as the Office Manager, bringing 12 years’ experience of Office Management and QHE Systems in engineering, and then James Baxter as another apprentice in October. 2023 has also seen One-O-Five Precision complete their Quality Manual and are certified with NQA and UKAS accredited to ISO 9001:2015.
Working with the local technical college and the Cumbrian Manufacturing Alliance has been a great enabler, Holly Moss explains: “We teamed up with Lakes College to overcome the skills gap in the area. We’ve recruited two apprentices (Louie Burns and James Baxter) and they’ve been a great asset to the business. The Cumbrian Manufacturing Alliance has enabled a small business like us take on contracts in the nuclear power industry, that would have been extremely difficult to be awarded without their fantastic support.”
"We were immediately convinced that Aberlink was right for us because it is so quick and easy to use."
It was the 100% inspection and quality assurance requirements of new nuclear power contracts that generated the need for a CMM. Previously, it would take 80 hours (4 man-days) to complete the 100% inspection of 500 parts with conventional handheld gauges, verniers and micrometers. Richard visited the MACH exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, with example part in hand, to see who could help. He visited all the CMM brands exhibiting at MACH and settled on Aberlink after a very quick and easy demonstration. Richard explains: “We were immediately convinced that Aberlink was right for us because it is so quick and easy to use. The part I had with me was inspected in no time at all and David Ditchburn (Aberlink technical sales manager) explained exactly how we could use the Aberlink CMM to measure multiple parts fully automatically. We settled on the Halo CNC CMM (10.12.08), with Renishaw PH10T-TP20 probe system and the Aberlink Programming from CAD software module. Not only being the best value-for-money CMM out there, we save more money by not having to pay for ongoing software maintenance, which means the running costs are also limited to only the annual service and calibration of our CMM!”
Aberlink are proud to be the only major metrology manufacturer to supply machines with zero annual software maintenance contracts and free software updates for the life of the machine. This means that the cost of ownership is very low providing a fast return on investment.
Aberlink are now able to offer remote online demonstrations for the entire range of CMMs, measurement software and accessories to customers who are unable to travel to a regional demo facility.