Founded in 1999, Aldercote initially provided Specialist Vehicle Engineering and the manufacture of aircraft de-icers and washers. Now with a staff of 30, the company specialises in vehicle mounted access platforms. Its range of van mounted platforms are renowned for their performance, which is largely delivered by a a control system which continuously monitors boom positions and loading. The company is now growing rapidly and is aiming to become the UK’s leading supplier.  Aldercote is proud to be the only significant company in its field to design, manufacture and assemble its products in Britain.

Aldercote self-certified their products to the ISO 13849 safety standard using a number of complex spreadsheets, developed in-house. However, these systems were quite complicated to update, and different analyses were not fully interlinked. This meant that changes in componentry or control algorithms led to  a lengthy process of updating several spreadsheets.