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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Life as a West End Automation Operator Part Two: How Did You Get Into Automation?

Stage Technologies: Stage Technologies recently spent a day with Ben Phillips, Head of Automation on the West End smash hit “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” to find out what it’s like to work in an Automation department. With its 75 axes – including the “flying” glass elevator – the show has more automation than most West End productions, and Production Manager Patrick Molony turned to Stage Technologies to supply the full automation package, consisting of counterweight assist winches, floor tracks, trucks, sliders and supplementary motors (and sister company Delstar Engineering supplied the stage engineering and hydraulics).

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