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Oyster Terminals bed in at Science Park
"We are delighted that Oyster Terminals have come to the Science Park. Their design and manufacturing facility has taken significant accommodation in one of the Park's multi occupancy units,' says Tom Webster, Deputy Director of the University of Warwick Science Park.
Oyster Terminals Ltd specialises in the design and manufacture of custom-built hand held terminals or HMI's (Human Machine Interfaces). The company has nearly three hundred customers and supplies original equipment manufacturers across a wide range of industries. Key markets are in the metrology, automotive and food package labeling and printing sectors. The terminals allow operators to reconfigure machine operations at the touch of a button. The terminals can be cable connected or linked by radio. "One of our most important sectors is the lighting equipment industry," explains Norden Lester, Oyster's Operations Manager. "Terminals are used to control the most sophisticated lighting effects; say in a theatre or major product launch. The lighting manager can sit anonymously in the auditorium, in the middle of the audience and can adjust the environment, seeing it from the audience's perspective.
Formerly part of the Group which owns Husky Computers, Oyster is now a subsidiary of Waterside Solutions Ltd. "The Science Park was a natural choice for us as some of our key personnel live in and around the Coventry area. The Park's clean, technically orientated environment is very conducive to our type of business and we find the communications to most parts of the UK very good," Norden adds.
Oyster Terminals Ltd is planning to expand in 2002 when a new panel mounted range of HMI's will be designed and built. Fifty percent of the company's business is in the UK, with exports and product support and service comprising the other half of the company's turnover.
Cliff Cotterill - 2001/12/13
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