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11 January 2016

'Innovating is stepping over your own shadow'

He literally works 'behind the scenes' in the high-tech industry and offers solutions by bringing science and technology together. He himself calls it focusing on software engineering in a scientific way. Paul Hiemstra, data analyst and software engineer at S&T, gets his inspiration from helping people who want to improve themselves. ,,I...

December 9, 2015

A clear view of the future of high tech

High Tech Systems & Materials. What are they, how are they made and what are the main trends? Innovatiecluster Drachten has listed the most important information and trends in an informative booklet. This way, everyone who has something to do with high-tech systems has the same starting point in a discussion about the importance of...

December 9, 2015

Cow happy, farmer happy thanks to high tech

Theun Prins from YP-YourPartner told the Omrop Fryslân camera on behalf of Innovatiecluster Drachten how the collaboration between the Innovatiecluster Drachten companies leads to beautiful products. He showed how cows and farmers stay happy through the high tech of Delta Instruments and YP-Your Partner.

December 2, 2015

Resato Roden newest member Innovatiecluster Drachten

DRACHTEN - High-tech company Resato International from Roden joined Innovatiecluster Drachten on Wednesday, December 2. The business cluster now has 13 members. Chairman Kor Visscher is happy with the arrival of Resato. "It is great to welcome the winner of the Erasmus Innovation Award 2015 to our high-tech cluster. It leaves...

26 Nov 2015

Parents provide career information

What does a concern controller or work psychologist do? And what does your day look like if you are a judge, primary school teacher or GP? What studies did you follow if you became an Industrial Cost Engineer or shipbuilding project manager by profession? This is now a lot clearer for the students at CSG Liudger havo/vwo location Raai. The location organized with help...

November 23, 2015

If this camera doesn't see anything, it's invisible

Easily classify digital holiday photos without having to manually view all files? This question gave Gerrit Baarda (1969), founder and owner of ZIUZ, the idea ten years ago to write a handy software tool that automatically recognizes faces and situations in photos and places them in a logical order. Today, police forces around the world use its…

November 16, 2015

Knowledge circle about visual intelligence

A first session on visual intelligence within the ICD was held on Wednesday, November 11. Host Ziuz is of course very specialized in this area and has taken the lead. With two presentations on the subject. First, visual intelligence with vision cameras was discussed. In one of Ziuz's devices, three cameras are used to check pill sachets....

November 12, 2015

Delta Instruments works within Innovatiecluster Drachten

Predict which cow is pregnant or has a disease? Delta Instruments wants to bring this within reach with advanced data analysis, partly developed with partners in the Innovatiecluster Drachten. "With this information, farmers can produce more efficiently and prevent their cow from becoming ill," says R&D manager Anne-Gerben Terpstra. 'Farmer happy, cow happy.' ...

October 19, 2015

Neopost wins innovation prize Logistica Award

On November 10, 2015, Neopost received the prestigious Logistica Award for the fully automatic packaging machine that packages products exactly to size. Jury chairman René de Koster of the Logistica Award is full of praise for Neopost, not only because of the machine but also because of the approach to the innovation process. "The machine has been in practice for a year...