KWSP Company Intro

High Performance Engineering
Inkjet Systems Integration

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.

www.kwspecialprojects.com © KW Special Projects Ltd

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


Organisation

Kieron Salter
Managing Director

Other KWSP
KW Motorsport Ltd Chinia Green projects
Company Assistant

Ian Jones
Senior Engineer
Xennia Projects

Andrew Sokoloff Steve Walker Michal Zolkiewski Vinny Viswanath
Design Engineer Design Engineer Design Engineer Placement Engineer MSC Engineer Control Engineer
Inkjet Systems Mechanical Mechanical Mechanical Simulation

Electronics Engineer


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


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


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.



• 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. Email: info@kwspecialprojects.com
Unit 6 Tel: +44 1280 704768
Reynard Park
Brackley
Northants
NN13 7RP


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