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April 24, 2014

Start of third knowledge circle Technology & Innovation management

This knowledge circle has been started especially for managers, senior engineers and project leaders and will meet 4 times this year. The first session was a great success because of the 26 interested parties. The agenda included a very current theme: scrum management within mechatronic projects. Agile project management with scrum methodologies is already successful in software projects. After an introduction to scrum management,…

April 14, 2014

Fully automatic packaging machine for growth e-commerce

The shipping houses already have their hands full with packaging and sending all that stuff. Literally, because apart from sometimes a small process step, it is mainly people (hands) that get the job done. 'That must be possible differently – more mechanically, faster and cheaper,' thought technicians at Neopost Technologies in Drachten. The result: the fully automatic parcel packaging line…

April 7, 2014

Northern Netherlands as 'Region of Smart Factories'

Northern Netherlands as 'Region of Smart Factories', the region with smart factories. Because in this way employment in the North can be maintained and even increased. The manufacturing industry forms the basis for this, because it provides spin-offs and therefore also jobs. That is the firm belief of Rob Karsmakers, site manager of Philips…

April 4, 2014

Knowledge circle CAD/PLM

The discussions showed that the management of the Engineering parts list and all related documentation is reasonably organised. Software is not yet seen as part of the product structure in all cases, even though this is becoming an increasingly essential part! For some, it is challenging to collaborate with external parties in the product development phase...
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March 18, 2014

Delta Instruments joins Innovatiecluster Drachten

On March 18, 2014, Delta Instruments officially joined the Innovatiecluster Drachten as the ninth member. On behalf of Delta Instrumenst, Anne Gerben Terpstra (R&D manager) and Mirjam Kip (HRM manager) were present at the TEL fair in Leeuwarden to confirm the collaboration with a signature. Delta Instruments BV, part of the American company Advanced Instruments…

25 Feb 2014

North must work with expats

Source: Leeuwarder Courant Municipalities in the Northern Netherlands must make more effort to accommodate expats, highly educated foreigners who temporarily come to work in the part of the country. This is what chairman Ineke Dezentjé Hamming-Bleumink of FME-CWM, the employers' organization for the technology industry, says. According to her, it is of the utmost importance for the northern high-tech companies that...

25 Feb 2014

Made by Neopost! Smart packing

It's such a minor annoyance. You order something on the internet and you are then saddled with unnecessarily large packaging boxes and mountains of plastic filling material. Couldn't that be better!? And if that could be better! see here how Neopost contributes to reducing the amount of packaging material.

November 5, 2013

Second meeting competence team electronics & software

The Innovation Cluster is constantly working on internal and external awareness and involvement. That is why knowledge network meetings are regularly organized for specialists in various fields. Last Thursday, for the second time, 10 electronics/software specialists from the various ICD companies came together to exchange knowledge in the field of electronics and (embedded) software. This field…

31 Oct 2013

There's music in Neopost's machines!

Neopost Technologies makes mail sorting machines, among other things. One of the employees thought that the monotonous sound of the machine in his workspace could be the basis for something more cheerful. And armed with his guitar, he set to work with the following result. This video was even broadcasted by De Wereld Draait Door!