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March 24, 2015

Knowledge Circle Meeting Manufacturing Engineering

On March 2, a knowledge circle for the field of Manufacturing Engineering took place within the innovation cluster Drachten. During the previous meeting at Philips, it was agreed that we will organize the knowledge circle alternately at the different companies in the network, where different topics will be discussed. This time the meeting was held at Neopost…

March 13, 2015

Hotspot Innovatiecluster Drachten 2015

On Saturday 6 June between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., the twelve companies affiliated with the Innovation Cluster Drachten will present themselves and give these High Tech companies a “peek behind the scenes”. An exciting and playful day full of fun discoveries and wonders of technology. There is something for young and old, for enthusiasts and professionals…

February 20, 2015

ICD at the Light Challenge Masterclass

The Innovation Cluster will be present at the Light Challenge Masterclass at Eindhoven University of Technology on 18 March. The 2015 Light Challenge edition has a new approach this year. In addition to the original principles of sustainability, energy saving and (citizen) participation, this edition also focuses on city centers. With the theme ”New light on the city center” the teams do not…

February 18, 2015

If people think along, it will work

In January an article appeared in the Visiekrant about the Innovatiecluster Drachten. In this article, Nieske Ketelaar indicates how important it is to collaborate more in the future. You can read the article here. 

January 16, 2015

Sixth ICD knowledge circle launched

The sixth knowledge circle of the Innovatiecluster Drachten started on 7 January. This time it was the turn of the Software and Engineering knowledge circle. More and more devices and installations depend on the correctly deployed software, which also creates many common issues/activities. There is interest from various companies to discuss these issues…

December 18, 2014

Fifth knowledge circle ICD launched

On December 16, the fifth knowledge circle of the Innovatiecluster Drachten started under the name Manufacturing Engineering. This profession has been neglected in the Netherlands in recent years, but is now again in the spotlight due to the Smart Industries initiative of the High Tech Systems. Various ICD companies are showing great interest in…

December 18, 2014

Growing together towards added value

Last week an article appeared in LINK about the collaboration between BD Kiestra and Variass. The entire article can be found here.    

24 Nov 2014

The cow as a smart factory at a high-tech conference

ASSEN De koe als smart factory; als een slimme wandelende melkfabriek dus. Toen het daarover ging, spitsten zich prompt de oortjes van deelenemrs aan de werkconferentie over Noord-NEderland als hightech-regio. Het heldere verhaal van Anne Gerben Terpstra van Delta Instruments uit Drachten was helemaal op z”n plaats in Assen, waar het ging over slimme toepassingen die de maakindustrie…

November 3, 2014

Students pimp go-karts for go-kart race in March

A go-kart race with pimped go-karts will take place on March 18 next year. The aim of this initiative is to interest VMBO students in technology in a playful way and to bring them into contact with a (technical) company. Municipality and companies adopt go-karts. The students work in teams to pimp the go-karts. Several large companies in the municipality of Smallingerland are participating…