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Start of third knowledge circle Technology & Innovation management
This knowledge circle has been set up especially for managers, senior engineers and project leaders, which will meet 4 times this year. The first session was a great success because of the 26 interested parties. On the agenda was a very topical theme: scrum management within mechatronic projects. Agile project management with scrum methodologies is already successful in software projects. After an introduction to scrum management,...
Neopost Shortlisted for Prestigious World Mail Awards 2014
The winners will be announced on June 18. read more.
Session biobased polymers
Two experts came to Drachten especially from the south to update the ICD on the latest state of affairs regarding the academic progress of research into biobased polymers and the state of affairs in the global industry. Dr. Peter Nossin (biobased polymers program manager at the Dutch Polymer Institute) has informed us from a scientific point of view...
Fully automatic packaging machine for growth e-commerce
The shipping companies are already busy packing and sending all that stuff. Literally, because with the exception of a small process step, it is mainly people (hands) who get the job done. 'There has to be another way – more mechanically, faster and cheaper,' thought the technicians at Neopost Technologies in Drachten. The result: the fully automatic parcel packaging line...
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 creates spin-offs and therefore also jobs. That is the firm belief of Rob Karsmakers, site manager of Philips...
Knowledge circle CAD/PLM
The discussions showed that the management of the Engineering bill of materials with all related documentation is reasonably well organized. Software is not yet seen in all cases as part of the product structure, while this is becoming an increasingly essential part! For some it is challenging when there is collaboration with external parties in the product development phase.
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...
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.
North must work with expats
Source: Leeuwarder Courant Municipalities in the Northern Netherlands must do more to accommodate expats, highly educated foreigners who come to work in the part of the country temporarily. That says chairman Ineke Dezentjé Hamming-Bleumink of FME-CWM, the employers' organization for the technological industry. According to her, it is of the utmost importance for the northern high-tech companies that it is ...