Vision Engineering, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2020 in the Innovation category, for its ergonomic optical inspection microscope Lynx EVO.
The Queens Award for Innovation recognises achievement by UK businesses, and is awarded to products or services that have been available on the market and can demonstrate outstanding innovation and commercial success for at least two years.
Lynx EVO is an eyepiece-less stereo microscope providing ergonomic performance for intricate inspection and manipulation tasks. It combines ergonomic & optical excellence with digital real time information transfer capabilities. Based on Vision Engineering’s patented ‘expanded pupil’ technology, it was developed to address the issue of operator efficiency.
Expanded pupil technology, based on patented optical microarray surfaces maximises possible head/body movement, hand to eye coordination, use of peripheral sensory information and allows operators to sit further away from the eye-piece, leading to improved user posture, reduced fatigue and improved accuracy and efficiency.
Lynx EVO was also developed to enhance multi-site design and manufacturing by improving the digital sharing of detailed real time information across complex manufacturing and distribution supply chains.
It has been adopted for manufacturing operations by large medtech, medical device, telecomms, aerospace, automotive and other manufacturers and their extended subcontract supply chains.
Mark Curtis, managing director, Vision Engineering said: “We are delighted to be awarded the highest accolade that UK business can receive for our Lynx EVO eyepiece-less stereo microscope. It reinforces our belief that exploiting state of the art microarray technologies and addressing the digital expectations of our customers offer significant benefits of throughput, reduced wastage and workplace efficiency across a range of industries globally through improved operator comfort, accuracy productivity and communication of information across multiple locations.
“The development of Lynx EVO and other related products has enabled us to exploit our unique expertise in the complex science of multi-faceted surfaces, and enabled Vision Engineering to combine multiple leading edge disciplines, to good commercial effect.”