Martin Lind is an experienced operator and successful sportsman. In the challenging Enduro-sports he won nine silver and one gold medal in the Swedish championships. He had worked as a developer for an American motorbike manufacturer and is full of ideas how to improve things. For the product development of the Swedish company RF System, a member of the Kinshofer Group, he is thus often serving as bringer of ideas and tester.
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“It just came along like this because I had been a customer of RF for about five years already”, Martin explains. “RF has good product and as the range is that wide, I can get everything I need from one single supplier. So I decided to get all attachments from them. And well, it is my style to always think about how you could improve different things. During the last years I have told RF some of my thoughts and ideas and they have listened and further developed them. The result has often been a new or improved product. Ok, sometimes it was just a bad idea that I tried to forget as soon as possible”, Martin laughs. |
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PEAB is the biggest customer
Martin is running the company Mr Lind
AB in Hässleholm, Sweden. He has one employee and is working within a
network of several small regional entrepreneurs. |
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It is already Martin’s second one “I had my first NOX for four years. But then I bought a bigger one, a TR11. The old one had already run 5.500 working hours without problems and I am sure the new owner will also use it a lot throughout the next years. I am an absolute NOX fan. In my opinion, it beats all the other models on the market. One big advantage is, that there are no pistons that could be damaged, obviously, yet it is very strong, it doesn’t limit the driver’s view and the new control system just rules. I’m not an IT freak and yet even for me it was super-easy to get all the settings of the new NOXPROP control done. It is very advanced and can be used intuitively.“ |
Martin has decided to equip his new NOX with a high-flow swivel and electrical connections in the rotary joint. So in the next step he can easily add other attachments.
It is important to keep your ears open
„We at RF really appreciate the the ideas and help that we get from Martin and other contractors“, Jan Forsén says, developing manager at RF in Vinslöv. “We currently have four, five projects in the development department, that are based on Martin’s ideas. Developing, testing, modifying and finally bringing a product onto the market is a long process that can last several years.
Maybe the most important part of product development is testing the product under real conditions. That is why we have Martin and his colleagues as testers. They help us by using the products for a longer period of time under difficult conditions and also “mistreat” the attachments sometimes a little bit. We at RF are looking back on a long tradition of providing smart high-quality products. That is why it is so important for us to test new attachments thoroughly before launching them.
It is also part of our tradition to always keep our ears open and to treat complaints, opinions and ideas of our clients with respect. For us, there is no better way to keep on developing new products and improve good ones”, Jan ends his speech.