Dynamic Load Monitoring (DLM) has promoted Chris Scrutton to technical director of the Southampton, UK, business. He will immediately take an overall view of the engineering and operations functions of the company.Scrutton, formerly the technical manager, is already the managing director of DLM’s sister company, Vulcan Offshore, which provides fabrication, welding, and computer numerical control (CNC) machining for the marine and subsea industries. It principally works for cable-laying companies that own or charter vessels for laying offshore wind farms or fibre optic cables for the telecommunications industry. DLM manufactures and supplies running line monitors (RLMs), saddleback monitors (used in pre-lay grapnel run and route clearance operations to measure line tension), load pins, and load cells that capture data as tension is applied to lifting and marine equipment.
