COMPANY PROFILEQuick Thinking Pty Ltd is wholly Australian owned, ACN 107 859 601. Quick Thinking Pty Ltd is a small privately owned Australian engineering company based in Altona, Melbourne, Victoria. Owner and Director Duncan Quick founded Quick Thinking Pty Ltd in order to fulfill his lifelong ambition of contributing to Australia's engineering excellence, and restoring some design and manufacturing pride to the industry. We enjoy the challenge of producing innovative solutions in the shortest time possible. Anyone can build some sort of solution to most problems, given enough time and money. We aim to do it faster, and better, than anyone else. In particular, we enjoy taking on problems that have never been solved. Whilst Quick Thinking is developing, patenting and aiming to release a number of new products, we maintain a viable business by sales of proven products, engineering consultancy and the development of new products or by designing modifications to products or equipment for clients. The long term goal of Quick Thinking is to contribute towards Australia's reputation of being the clever country, and being able to design and manufacture quality products that are safe, easy, and convenient to use, without having to go overseas for manufacturing or funding. We aim to contribute to the growth, reputation and prosperity of the country. THE QUICK THINKING TEAM
He has worked on many mining, power generation, water and industrial plants throughout Australia and overseas. Duncan designed and built a neural network bucketwheel reclaimer speed controller, implementing it on the machine's original hardware. The new 'brain' allowed the reclaimer to learn how best to cut the stockpile, which significantly improved the steadiness of its coal output, reducing tripping of the downstream conveyors, and increasing its average output by 20%. More recently, he redesigned the circuitry behind the Lane Use Signals in the Melbourne City Link tunnels, when a French firm failed to deliver a working system in time. He came up with a better design, sketched it up, and arranged to have a local workshop build replacement electrics in only two weeks, saving the opening of the Domain tunnel from being delayed. Duncan is a keen inventor, and enjoys solving engineering problems, particularly ones which have historically been insoluble, such as the continuously variable bicycle chain drive. Although educated as a heavy current electrical engineer, he has worked mostly in the field of instrumentation and control systems, then multidiscipline project management, yet mostly enjoys designing new mechanical and mechatronic devices. Duncan is a member of MENSA.
In 1970 he designed the tractor mounted 7 tonne mobile crane, some of which are still operating today. He held the position of Engineering Manager over a team of 50 people in Bundaberg, where he was responsible for the design and development of cane harvesters, models F105, 205, 305 and the unique MF405. He held the most patents in Massey Ferguson worldwide. The 305 was copied by Toft (Now Case) and enlarged, then copied by Cameco US. The 405 was not released for production due to the sugar industry collapse, but the prototype still operates today. In 1997 it was performance tested by the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, and declared "the best machine in the world", outperforming all other current machines, some 15 years after he designed it. Don is a mechanical design engineer, able to solve complex
mechanical problems with innovative solutions. As a Mechanical
Consultant he has been called upon to redesign problem components on
imported machines, machine guarding and safety systems. From time to
time he is engaged as an expert witness to provide opinions as to
the cause of failure of industrial machinery, or to investigate the
cause of an accident. |
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