Theme Parks

Are you in need of value engineering expertise with a strong theme park background?

Founder and lead consultant Hal Wilkinson was Chief of Strategic Projects at a major Central Florida theme park. His insight and experience bring support for vendor questions, including ferreting out the questions that your vendor does not want to be asked. Among his many accomplishments, he:

• Solved costly day-to-day engineering problems, resulting in a savings of more than one million dollars/year
• Developed, managed, and proposed 68-percent+ IRR systems
• Provided consulting that corrected design and manufacturing problems with ride designs at vendor facilities
• Served for more than a decade as chief of machine design services at a major Florida theme park.

Value Engineering/Maintenance Analysis

Astro Tech offers extensive experience in:

• Ride Systems Design
• Parts Wear
• Parts Materials
• Wheel Materials

Astro Tech's management has more than 25 years of experience in dealing with wheel issues in theme parks. This experience includes structuring a multi-disciplinary "Wheel Program" for Florida's largest theme park complex, maintaining the program for more than 20 years, and reducing wheel usage in four theme parks by 40 percent over five years. Astro Tech works closely with raw material manufacturers to advance cutting edge technologies, to provide clients with significant cost reductions and reduced down times.

 E-Mail: hal_wilkinson@hotmail.com