Mechanical & Electrical maintenance works
About Me
Grey Matter Engineering solutions is the home to Patrick Watterson,
a print packaging specialist engineer.
After working within the print and packaging industry for the last 20 years, completing
a print specific engineering apprenticeship under the Polestar banner,
I have found myself a in a position where I can take my hand to a variety
of mechanical and electrical projects and repairs.
Working with lithographic web and sheet fed presses, cutstars, flexographic print and all accompanied finishing and binding equipment.
Manufacturers such as Heidelberg, Komori, MBO, Muller martini, ASHE, Comexi, RTO and more...
My Services
What I Offer
PROJECTS
Design to Completion
Whether your sites desire is to increase performance, improve reliability or bringing older machines inline with modern health and safety legislation, I can assist in any and all steps from design to completion of mechanical or electrical engineering work.
BREAKDOWNS
Mechanical and Electrical
Dependant on your sites requirements I can assist with breakdown call outs, within my business hours, or be booked for lengths of time to cover site engineer rolls onsite.
PPM Adherance
Planned Preventive Maintenance
On a regular basis preventative maintenance is required for the productivity and longevity of production machinery. I can plan and provide a maintenance plan specific to your sites requirements.
Inspection Reports
Insurance Adherence
Specific kit on sites like RTO afterburners, press dryers or solvent distillery kit requires service inspection for insurance purposes. I can perform inspections on these pieces of kit and supply a detailed report and quote for repairs.
Testimonials
"Patrick worked for me as an engineer, always showing great competence on all jobs. It was due to his vast skill level I promoted him to engineering manager when I planned my retirement.
Great person with great work ethic."
Steve.H - Paragon CC
"Knowing Patrick for 5 years now, he has used our services to have parts made. From machine breakdowns to his own designed improvements. He always makes the manufacturing process easy with detailed designs."
Ady.S - Prime Precision Engineering
"As an Engineer and a Manager, Patrick assisted me through my learning journey to complete my apprenticeship. His vast knowledge and people skills made him a pleasure to work with."
Bailey.T - Former Apprentice
Gallery
Chill Roller Repair
Upon finding some metal dust during a routine inspection of the chill roller, we found the shaft was worn. This was an essential repair.
We carefully removed this roller and was able to get a repair carried out, saving dramatically on the cost of a new chill roller.
Encoder and coupling
Using machine schematics', I traced an intermittent fault back to an inline motor encoder and coupling. Using safe working techniques I exchanged these parts in a high level, hard to access location.
Chiller install
Multiple Temperature Control Units (TCU) were left over heating. This was due to there being no external chilled water feed.
After calculating the amount of cooling required I sourced a new chiller and installed to the machine wiring so that it comes on/off with the machine. This regulated the TCUs and improved machine quality and performance.
