LCM Systems are a designer and manufacturer of standard and custom design load cells, load pins and instrumentation systems. These are used in a variety of applications, including Marine, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Heavy Lift and crane safety. We also offer an extensive range of ATEX and IECx hazardous area certified products.

1. A brief overview of LCM Systems company
history, our strengths and capability.
LCM Systems Ltd

2. LCM Systems History
Company founded in 1984 to manufacture load cells and
instrumentation for performance racing yachts.
The company was sold to the current owners (Steve Sargeant &
David Willmington) at the end of 2001.
The company focused on growth into other markets, which we are
still servicing today, including; oil & gas, civil engineering, marine
& offshore, aerospace, heavy lifting, automotive and aerospace.
The company is still privately owned, providing us with
true control of our future and with excellent financial stability.

3. LCM Systems Company Strengths
Single UK facility handling marketing, sales, design,
manufacturing, finance and final test/calibration.
High level of market and application experience, offering
expert advice in the selection of the most suitable
commercial/technical load cell solution.
The ability to adapt to meet growing customer demand and
technical requirements, offering our customers true commercial
advantages.
Linked with leading electronics company, Mantracourt, through co-
owner Dave Wilmington.

4. LCM Systems Product Strengths
99% of all load cells of stainless steel construction.
Products available with high degree of environmental
sealing and provide excellent long term reliability.
Custom design products available on shorter lead time than
most of our competitors.
All products can be adapted to meet specific application and
technical needs.
We design/manufacture standard and custom products.

5. LCM Systems Facilities
Material stock holding
In house machine shop
3D CAD design
Strain Gauging laboratory
Instrumentation build/assembly
Compression calibration to 1500 tonne
Tension calibration to 150 tonne
Pressure testing to 1000 psi
Pressure calibration to 4000 bar
Fully documented QMS

6. LCM Systems Capabilities
Custom product design
Prototype product design
Batch manufacturing
Packaged system designs
Short lead times
Down hole strain gauging
In-house machining, fabrication and welding
Software development
In-house calibration
Fast turnaround time for quotations

7. Load Shackle
LCM Systems – Product Examples
Load Pin Compression Load Cell

8. Tension Load CellTension & Compression
Load Cell
Load Link
LCM Systems – Product Examples

9. Linear Displacement
LCM Systems – Product Examples
Load Beam Pressure Transducer

10. LCM Systems – Markets
Crane & Lifting
Oil & Gas
Marine & Offshore
Civil Engineering
Research
General Engineering
Aerospace
Process Engineering

11. LCM Systems – Application Environments
Safe & hazardous areas
Topside and subsea
Extremes in temperature, shock and vibration
High capacity loadings ie. +1000 tonne capacity Load Cells
Areas where service & maintenance is challenging
When functionality and accuracy are critical
Small one off custom designs to large batch orders for OEMS

12. LCM Systems – Technical Support & Advice
LCM offer a number of technical documents and resources that
are freely available to help with the specification of the correct
load cell
During the design phase of the load cell the LCM engineers are
on hand to offer their thoughts and advice.
LCM Systems are pleased to share our knowledge and experience
with our clients.

13. Example Load Cell Resources - Documentation

14. Example Load Cell Resources - Software

15. Load Pin Simple Design Examples

16. Load Pin Manufacturing
We operate a full MRP system.
All our production staff are fully trained and highly experienced in
strain gauge application and sensor manufacture.
As a company we specialise in down-hole strain gauging techniques
and have honed these skills over the past 30 years.
We have spent many years developing specialised techniques to
ensure consistent high quality is achieved in the most efficient manner.

17. Load Pin Manufacture
Specialised Down Hole Gauging Techniques

18. Load Pin Design Examples
250T FPSO subsea anchor tension load pin supplied with bespoke cable and
connector guard

19. Load Pin Design Examples
400T wireless load shackle with a bespoke bobbin, supplied with 3.2 material
certificate witnessed by ABS

20. Example Custom Engineering
800kg load pin for a specially designed assembly for supporting the engine of A400M
military transport aircraft while a gearbox change is carried out

21. Example Custom Engineering
35T compression load cell with integral amplifier for overload protection on the jib
extension of an A-frame floating crane

22. Load Pin Design Examples
14T stainless steel load link with integral amplifier installed on RTG cranes
as part of a crane weighing system

23. Load Pin Design Examples
400T stainless steel load annular load cell for anchor bolt tension
monitoring

24. Quality Management & Certifications
Third party witnessing of customer products being tested and
calibrated by ABS, Lloyds, DNV etc.
Fully Documented and independently audited QMS
All test machines are calibrated and certified annually in accordance
with BS EN ISO7500-1:2004
Machinery Directive compliant Load Cells EN ISO 13849 -1 & 2
Full Traceability including: MPI testing; Ultrasonic Testing;
Certificates of Origin; 3:1 Material Specifications; Certificates of
Conformity; Certificates for any secondary components
We are open for visits, factory tours and audits by our customers

25. Quality Management & Certifications

26. LCM Systems – Example Customers (Ports & Lifting)

27. LCM Systems – Example Customers (General)

28. LCM Systems – Example Mooring Projects
Statia
Dangote Oil Refining Company
SEPOC Yemen
Rabida Refinery
Ras Laffan
Kochi Refinery
Galeota TerminalBelanak
Pemex Terminal
Bantry Bay Terminal
Civitavecchia Terminal
Ocensa Terminal
NSRP Refinery

29. LCM Systems – Recap
LCM Systems are pleased to share our knowledge and experience with
our customers.
LCM Systems is not a systems integrator and our strength is in the
design and manufacture of load cells.
Our core business is suppling load cells to our customers in batches
or for one off projects for them to integrate into their equipment.
LCM Systems is focussed on providing engineered solutions for load
cell design and manufacture (specifically load pins) for marine and
lifting applications.

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