Manufacturing solutions
Manufacturing solutions
“I was a manufacturing engineer at various companies following my modern apprenticeship, mostly at gear-cutting and aerospace companies,” says Hyde Engineering’s co-founder and Technical Director Mark Hyde. “However, I found every company had the same issue: a lack of adequate support. It was hard to find services such as fixture design, programming and inspection as part of a single-source solution. That was my ‘eureka’ moment.” In the beginning Mark and his wife Samantha set up Hyde Engineering in April 2013, with fixture design quickly providing the company’s ‘bread and butter’ revenue. At that time, there was no in-house manufacturing capacity, so Hyde Engineering would send a CAD model to an approved manufacturing partner, subsequently performing any required assembly and
“Seeking a unique market position” Mark and Samantha Hyde of Hyde Engineering, a fast-growing end-to-end manufacturing solutions specialist, reveal the secrets of their success in an exclusive chat with Contributing Editor Steed Webzell
dispatching the fixture to the customer. “We soon found ourselves providing extra support to customers in the shape of CNC machine programming; and so our repertoire of services began to expand,” explains Mark. “The biggest shift saw us establish in-house manufacturing capability 18 months ago, supported by investment of around £2 million.” Today, Hyde Engineering exploits the latest CADCAM technologies and numerous multi- axis CNC machine tools with zero-point work holding, as well as 3D printing, 3D scanning and CMM capabilities. The company provides comprehensive engineering and manufacturing solutions in accordance with its ISO9001 accreditation, serving the defence, aerospace, agriculture, automotive, motorsport and nuclear sectors, to list but a few.
The market is awash with subcontract machining companies, which means making headway as a new entrant in this crowded arena takes something a little different, a little out of the ordinary. Step forward Hyde Engineering, a progressive, forward-thinking SME that acts as a collaborative innovation partner to its customers in the provision of end-to-end
manufacturing solutions. To say the company’s avant-garde strategy is paying dividends would be an understatement. In just 18 months of manufacturing, Hyde Engineering has gained entry to countless new industries, invested around £2 million in new machine tools, and doubled its floor space. And there is way more to come.
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