Update from the workshop:

 

As many of you already know, our workshop in Brookvale has evolved over the last years. Not only do we make watches like the NH3 and MK II, we also have a separate business that focuses on making high precision components for parallel sectors. Scientific instrumentation, opto-mechanics, quantum computing and medical parts to name a few. This separate business, called NH Micro has been growing rapidly in the last 3 years, the growth has exposed us to some quite incredible projects. We've talked about a few in this newsletter. Building telescopes that will inquire deeper about the origins of the universe, medical devices that save and improve lives, and technologies that will help revolutionise AI, computing and consumer products. This last week we completed a very intricate, very delicate part that we are excited to share some photos of! The part is used in an opto-mechanical application - think lenses, lasers and parts that have to move very precisely. This specific part is what is called a "flexure". The small, thin cuts in the material intentionally introduce flexibility to the part. The design of the thin cuts is very carefully tuned so that the "flexing" is very defined, resulting in precise motion in the X and Y axes.

Flexures like this are cut on our Wire EDM machine and the blanks are made in our Kern Micro HD - two of the most precise machines in Australia coming together to make complex, intricate parts! To see more of this type of work, and pictures of the parts and processes in the workshop, follow NH Micro on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nhmicro/