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  Innovation.  
     
 
Innovation is the successful exploitation of new ideas, incorporating new technologies, design and best practice - a key factor in enabling businesses to compete effectively in the global environment. The challenge for a modern progressive company is to bring to the market a stream of new and improved, added-value, products and services that enable the business to achieve higher sales at higher margins.
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The catalyst for these benefits is innovation - bringing not only better, more attractive products but also newer, cleaner and more efficient production processes and improved business models.

  • For business, innovation means sustained or improved growth - delivering higher profits for owners and investors.
  • For employees, innovation means a more interesting job, new skills and higher earning potential.
  • For consumers, innovation means higher quality and better value goods, more efficient services and a higher standard of living.
 
     
 

The innovator thinks laterally to solve a problem, using new ideas, tools, processes and prospects - taking solutions, or elements of a solution from the unconventional.

One must think - not "Why?", but "Why not?"

When searching for a solution, be it beginning with a clean sheet of paper or modifying an existing product, the designer has the opportunity to utilise both practiced and novel ideas. As design specialists, Railcraft's engineers have been thinking sideways since the company began, and this ability coupled with the team's extensive product knowledge, delivers highly profitable solutions to many rail engineering problems.

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For Railcraft's clients, innovation means achievement. Innovative products yield higher profits, higher success rates and greater advantages over their competitors.
 
 
 
  Think around the problem - or better still let Railcraft do it for you!!  
     
     
   
For those curious about the origins of the Railcraft logo, the shield represents strength, the dark blue colour : integrity and the sun : energy, and also that we are a Yorkshire company since the "Sunne in Splendour" is an ancient heraldic device of English Kings from the house of York. ("Now is the Winter of our discontent made glorious Summer by this son / sun of York" - Shakespear, Richard III) Railcraft Associates Ltd, Consulting Design Engineers