Oxford Instruments NanoScience cut costs by £12,000 per Annum Oxford Instruments NanoScience had been using the same ultrasonic cleaning tank for at least 15 years. It was becoming increasingly unreliable and would regularly breakdown. ‘ As a result, we wasted a lot of time trying to identify what was wrong with the tank, which was becoming detrimental to the business’ says Mr Daniel Turner-Cleaver, Manufacturing Engineer for Oxford Instruments NanoScience. As the time necessary to fix the tanks increased, so did the costs. It was becoming increasingly difficult to repair the tanks as some parts were obsolete; others were either difficult to resource or very expensive. Even when the tank did work it wasn’t performing to the required standard. ‘We had to leave parts in the ultrasonic bath

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