Compact Control Design Limited started up in August 2005 in Congleton in Cheshire. Prior to creating Compact Control design Ltd the director, Andy Watts, was employed by a world leading scientific instrument manufacturer which had set up an office in Congleton specifically for the development of a bench top X-ray spectrometer. Andy was recruited to design the electronics for the instrument and write the software and firmware to control the electronics. The instrument also included a sample handling system, Andy dessigned the electronics to drive its motors and the firmware and software to control it in a safe and reliable manner. The design work performed by Andy resulted in the company obtaining several patents. Once the instrument development had been completed the site at Congleton was closed and some staff relocated to other sites, but Andy decided instead to set up his own company designing electronics and writing firmware and software.

In the years since August 2005, Compact Control Design Ltd has designed a wide and varied range of products and has helped a number of small businesses to grow significantly.

Several years ago we developed a water monitoring device for a small business, that device proved popular and as their business grew they had us design more products including a device that would detect water leaks by use of a water sensitive cable and a device that would send text message alerts to several user programmed numbers if a water leak was detected. That company is now one of the major suppliers of water management and leak detection equipment in the UK.

Several years ago we started designing the electronics for a range of engine control units and injector driver modules for various types of engines. The customer was originally based in an industrial unit in the South East, they grew and took over the building and have recently split into 2 companies because the range of products and services they could provide was becoming confusing! We are still developing new products for these companies and both companies are growing nicely.

A few years ago we developed a small device that operated 32 LEDs and could be programmed using a simple language to turn on/off each LED and to control its brightness. The customer wanted to take Admiralty charts of coastlines, ports, estuaries and wherever there was a navigation bouy he wanted to put a LED of the correct colour and have it flash exactly as the navigation bouy flashes. To date he has sold quite a few of these charts, one is hanging on the wall of the lifeboat station in The Mumbles near Swansea in Wales.