Drew Devitt

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Aston, PA, US
Drew Devitt's Location
Aston Township, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
About Drew Devitt

Drew Devitt started off in the machine-tool trades learning the art of way scrapping while in high school and college. After college (history of economics) he went on to work for the family business selling a moldable bearing material that is used to create way surfaces by machine-tool builders and rebuilders. 30 years of experience selling to and working with the US machine-tool builders has given Drew an extensive experience in heavy precision machine-tool design and erection. During the late 1980s and early 1990s many machine-tool builders began to employ rolling element linear guide ways, in response Drew developed innovative hydrostatic bearing systems in co-operation with MIT. The collaboration resulted in a number of patents, but little acceptance of hydrostatics in the machine-tool industry. Fortunately, Drew had also been developing porous air bearings. He found success selling air bearings to coordinate measuring machine manufacturers first, then the machine tool, medical, motor sports, semiconductor, Flat Panel Display Screens and now even equipment for manufacturing flexible electronics. Today, New Way Air Bearings is the world leader in air bearings sales and the number search result for “Air Bearings”.The last several years Drew has been applying porous gas bearing technology to bearings and seals for the rotating equipment and turbo industries. He sees promise in eliminating oil from large turbines, motors, generators and compressors. Drew holds over a dozen patents and is a regular author of technical papers and magazine features. One of his hobbies is renewable energy, having written novel articles on wind energy for Power Magazine and on energy storage in Renewable Energy World. See American Offshore Energy below.

Drew Devitt's Current Company Details
Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand

Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand

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Aston, PA, US
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Drew Devitt Work Experience Details
  • Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand
    Cto
    Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand
    Aston, Pa, Us
  • New Way Air Bearings
    Founder, Chairman, And Chief Technology Officer
    New Way Air Bearings 1993 - Present
    During the 80s, Inside Devitt Machinery I was able to develop porous air bearings for a friend of my father who needed them at Oak Ridge National Lab. He was both a coach and a first customer. As the air bearing business grew my father let me spin it out as my own. I have been fortunate to find and involve some great people in the New Way Mission. Today New Way is the worldwide leader in off the shelf air bearing products.
  • Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand
    Cto
    Bently Bearings- A New Way Brand 2016 - Present
    Don Bently is the founder of Bently Nevada, a company that makes probes and software for understanding rotor dynamics in large equipment. He sold Bently Nevada to GE for hundreds of millions and started to focus on pressurized bearings, believing they were the way to solve many of the rotor dynamic problems he had identified. We agree, but Don, not being expert in air bearing technology had difficulty with the orifice-based technology he was using. New Way plans to add the missing part, our porous bearing technology to Don’s mathematical equations to his make his dream of oil-less machines a reality.
  • New-Seal - A New Way Brand
    Cto
    New-Seal - A New Way Brand 2016 - Present
    Using the pressure that can be created within gas bearing gaps as pressure dams to stop flows, allows for the first zero leakage seals because there is no longer a flow across the seal face, from high to low pressure. The highest pressure is in the gap between the seal faces that do not touch, and so do not ware or get hot.
  • American Offshore Energy
    Founder, Cto
    American Offshore Energy 2012 - Present
    Floating wind turbines should be based on sail boat technology. First, building a light weight cylindrical structure based on tension and compression principles (A cross between a stayed sailboat masts and spoked bike wheels). Second using America’s cup “Winged Sails” as vertical aerodynamic blades. Built locally, towed out 50 miles away from NIMBYs and into the trade winds, anchored in deep water that is used for energy storage. Solves lots of problems.
  • Devitt Machinery Co.
    Technical Advisor
    Devitt Machinery Co. Jan 1985 - Jan 2017
    3345 Market Street, Aston, Pa 19014
    Devitt Machinery was founded when my Dad, Joe Devitt quit his job selling steel because he found out my mother was pregnant with me. He said, “If I don’t start my own business now I never will”, and that was the first example he set for me. Unfortunately, Dad died round the turn of the century, but Devitt Machinery continues as a family business selling plain sliding bearing materials (Moglice and Turcite) to the metal cutting machine tool industry and providing field service engineers with the skills to make even the biggest machines cut straight.

Drew Devitt Skills

Manufacturing Engineering Product Development Materials Bearings Manufacturing Engineering R&d Lean Manufacturing Semiconductors Mechanical Engineering Metrology Design Of Experiments Solidworks Strategic Planning Construction Research And Development Engineering Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Wind Turbines

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