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At Gilmore Engineers The Future is Here

Look into a crystal ball and the picture you'll see isn't far off a mirror image of Queensland consultancy Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd.

Gilmore Engineers, headed by Dr Duncan Gilmore, is a specialist consultancy in industrial research and development. The firm specialises in commercial and industrial innovation and takes an initial concept through to full commercialisation, adding new ideas and cutting-edge technology along the way.

The firm works with a client idea or working prototype, by introducing improved techniques and design solutions, managing the development of prototypes, experimental testing, certification to relevant Australian or international Standards, and providing all necessary reports and presentations to round off a total business plan, encompassing development capital right through to marketing.

Gilmore Engineers establishes multi-disciplinary project teams, typically covering electronics, materials, chemistry, physiology, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary science, agriculture, patenting, solicitors, management consultants and venture capital.

For example, the firm is the coordinating group and design manager for a product being developed by Vapotronics Ltd for drug delivery. The team is multi-disciplinary and a critical element of the project has been access to QMI's steriolithography facilities to build a three-dimensional housing shell for a working prototype with ergonomic features and which fits neatly into the hand.

A University of Queensland graduate, Dr Gilmore's post graduate research was on the instrumentation of two-phase gas-liquid flows and the use of hot-wire anemometry technology in the study of non-isothermal turbulent fluid flows.

He worked for the Queensland Electricity Commission in the 1970's and from 1986 to 1993 lectured at Queensland University. He was also visiting professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the robotics division of Japan's Ministry of International Trade Industry National Research Centre.

Dr Gilmore has undertaken well over 400 consulting assignments-tasks have ranged from conceptual development and commercialisation of new mass production products, assessment and modification of major equipment installations, and specialist machinery design.

Projects in which Gilmore Engineers Pty Ltd played a leading developmental role included a collapsible textile lifting bag for Exhaust Power Industries for use in Australia and export; the Maxi Muncher garden waste shredder for Rover Mowers Ltd, part of the GWA group; the robotic head used on the Numbat mine rescue vehicle designed by the CSIRO and manufactured by Evans Deakin; development of a weighing system for oil and gas skids for BHP; and detailed stress analysis and testing of new products for Hydranut Pty Ltd destined for nuclear power plants in Japan.