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Richard Bittleston
Richard Bittleston the author of X6 and BitzList software, worked as principal research scientist in
the computer systems laboratories of the GEC research Group. His specialisations included networking, compiler design,
database technologies and AI. As part of a team he pioneered Local Area
Networking solutions and a fully operational Ethernet was in place only three
months after the Xerox papers were released. This meant that experimentation on
data management across networks was possible many years before it was to move
to the centre stage of IT. Working with GEC and
several universities, most especially the computer science teams at oxford and
Cambridge, several models for data synchronisation
were prototyped. The principles of "differencing" (a technique by
which the minimum information required to sychronise
is determined) were developed along with some detailed studies into dynamic
languages (languages which include the ability to generate their own code and
infer rules). These are some of the ingredients that have found their way into
X6. The early work led to a pan-company network funded by the EEC and Richard
became the Technical Co-coordinator in an project
spanning 8 of the largest European IT developers and producing one of the first
implementations of a business to business information Exchange. That Project
has since provided considerable input into the standards process. He moved to
take over software developments in several parts of GEC/Marconi Group and
developed solutions across dozens of Projects He went freelance in 1990 and X6
evolved to address the needs of electronic catalogue design, document
management and business to business applications including e-commerce.
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Tim Bittleston EngTech MIMechE
Tim Bittleston has always had a passion for engineering. On leaving
school he took a position at a local Sub Contract machining firm Crew
& Saunders Engineering Ltd. He worked there developing skills he
had primarily taught himself in his well-equipped home workshop while
still at school. With a background in manual machining learned over the 8
years of working from his home and employment at Crew and
Saunders Tim was keen to start out on his own believing that CNC was the way
forward despite his employer’s lack of interest in the technology. He purchased
a CNC lathe in 2002 and formed Bittleston Ltd. Soon after, the first
incarnation of BitzList was born as EMU engineering management utility.
A system was required to help organise this growing
sub-contract outfit. Bittleston Ltd went on to acquire the order book of Crew
and Saunders Engineering Ltd and bought over Boxmoor
Precision Engineering a company involved mainly in the production of medical
implants. All manner of new CNC machine tools where acquired and experienced
gained through both the running of the company and the setting of machine tools
from Star, Miyano, Mazak, Bridgeport, DMG, XYZ,
Doosan, Jones and Shipman, Studer and so on. In 2009
Bittleston Ltd was sold to the PCT Group (manufacturer of Cranes and Hoists
Based in Glasgow) for a consideration in shares as the
directors saw an opportunity to gain first-hand experience running the
machine shop of an OEM. Tim has spent 6 years working on product
design, design for manufacture, machining and manufacturing
control for PCT and on the development of BitzList as their core
manufacturing program.
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Paul Corley
Paul Corley is a qualified CNC setter of 30 years’ experience. An
expert setter, he joined Tim as a director of Bittleston Ltd
in 2003. He too has worked primarily in sub-contract engineering
first at Curd & Green Engineering, one of the first small companies to
buy CNC sliding head lathes, then as a charge hand at PB Sutton Engineering
before becoming a Director of Bittleston Ltd in 2003. Paul has handled
machine scheduling and setting for all the multiaxis
lathes both at Bittleston Ltd and at PCT Group. Paul has carried out some
of the real world testing of our systems and has been a key driver in
determining what functionality the system needed to have to make it
truly CNC Workshop friendly. In 2009 Bittleston Ltd was sold to the
PCT Group (manufacturer of Cranes and Hoists Based in Glasgow) for a consideration
in shares as we saw an opportunity to gain first-hand experience running the
machine shop of an OEM. Paul has spent 6 years working on machining
and manufacturing control for PCT and on the development of BitzList as
their core manufacturing program. His experience in small subcontract
engineering operations, running his own manufacturing company and running the
manufacturing operation at PCT has driven the development of our product range.