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Nick Tillett's Story

Dr. Nick Tillett formed Tillett and Hague Technology with Dr Tony Hague in 2005 on the closure of Silsoe Research Institute. Over the past fourteen years the company has focused on innovative research and development for computer vision-based guidance and control. The  business has evolved from one based largely on contract research into a manufacturer of their own vision guidance and control products that they sell to machinery manufacturers. Tillett and Hague Technology now offers a broad range of expertise in the field of automation covering mechanical design, electronics, real time computing and control, which enables the development of highly integrated cost-effective in-house engineering solutions.  Nickbelieves that sustainable farming goals cannot be achieved by engineering alone and so they collaborate widely with industrial and academic partners in a variety of disciplines in order to ensure their technology fits usefully within wider agricultural systems.

Nick says: “In my experience most agricultural engineering companies are still operating.  Certainly we at Tillett and Hague Technology are continuing to supply our customers with guidance and control systems throughout Europe including to Italy, Germany and France as well as the UK, of course.  We have changed the way we work with much more being done from home, including some assembly work.  However, it has been necessary to keep our workshop at an eerily quiet Wrest Park open and we have been careful to minimise unnecessary contacts. A small number of our customers and suppliers have partially shut down but, by and large, working life is carrying on, albeit in a slightly surreal way.”

Ed Hansom, CEO of the IAgrE says: “it is very encouraging that Nick is still managing to operate in these difficult times. Quite often one of the first aspects of ‘normal’ business to be put on hold during a financial depression is research and development. As a Professional Engineering Institution, the IAgrE is keen to support research and development work, particularly now, because it is only through innovation pioneered by companies such as Tillett and Hague Technology that agricultural engineering can progress. It is encouraging to hear that Nick believes that agricultural engineering organisations are still operating during this pandemic. The IAgrE is here to support its members and Academic and Corporate partners in whatever ways it can. We are adding more benefits to the existing suite of member benefits which will, hopefully, been seen as helpful in these difficult times.

Nick is a mechanical engineer who worked in the manufacturing industry followed by a period of agricultural automation research at Silsoe Research Institute. The latter ranging from Robot milking to cauliflower harvesting. His most recent work has concentrated on vision guidance for applications such as mechanical weed control and precision chemical application.  Nick’s current role includes company management, new application development and mechanical design. Nick is a member of the IAgrE

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