110 registrations for E&A!
The deadline for the first registration round for Electronics & Applications 2023 passed on Friday the 3th of March. We can already welcome 110 exhibitors who have been allocated a nice place on the exhibition floor. However, you can still register for E&A!
Meanwhile, the exhibition organization has started making the layout of the E&A exhibition floor plan. When signing up, we try to take all wishes into account. Exactly where do you want your place in the hall? And which companies have to be nearby or, also possible, which ones have to be far away?
We expect to publish the concept map at the beginning of May. From that moment on, companies can register and immediately choose a stand space on the floor plan that is still available.
New seminar E&A: the essential role of embedded software
In collaboration with the members of the FHI Software Cluster, E&A is organizing a seminar on embedded software at the fair for the first time this year. The aim of the seminar is to increase the visibility of embedded software in the manufacturing industry. Six speakers will give a lecture focusing on the importance of embedded software for the product development process. We will announce the date and time soon.
The customer often underestimates the amount of time and work that goes into the correct design, implementation, and testing of embedded software during the product development process. This must change, concluded the members of the Software Cluster during the seminar meeting on Wednesday the 1st of March. That is why the initiative of a new seminar has been created that specifically focuses on the essential role of embedded software in the product development process.
Six innovative companies have agreed to cooperate. Dekimo opens the seminar with a presentation about communication between the hardware and software. In practice, miscommunications sometimes arise between the two. This is often because they work parallel to each other in a process instead of integrated together into one project. During the seminar, Dekimo gives practical examples and concrete tips on how to improve cooperation.
Logic Technology sketches a situation in which the software is integrated into the hardware development. The visitor is introduced to a method in which hardware and software go hand in hand. The central question is: how do you specify, develop and manage software components in such a way that they are transferable from R&D to assembly and production? Logic Technologie shares advice that will be useful for a lot of companies.
Subsequently, QBayLogic talks about a programming method in which hardware and software are developed simultaneously and get closely integrated. The vision behind this is the subject of discussion during this fascinating lecture. INDES-IDS explains how, as a company, you can think about software testing right from the start of the process. You want to prevent that you only find out after development that the product does not work, for example because the hardware and software do not function together as planned. Then you have to go back to the drawing board and that costs a lot of time and money.
Software is not tangible and therefore difficult to make visual. Industrial designer GBO Innovation Makers therefore concludes the seminar with a lecture on the visible translation of software within an end product. GBO Innovation Makers does not make software itself, but as a design specialist it is closely involved in product development processes and therefore, is intensively involved with the end product.
Click here for more information about the seminar and register for free.
Production square will definitely continue
We have good news for exhibitors and visitors of the fair: the Production Square will definitely continue! This area has traditionally been one of the most popular ‘hotspots’ of the E&A fair and promises to attract many visitors again this year.
We produce 750 gadgets live at the Production Square. That is half of the total number of gadgets. Visitors and other interested parties can experience and see with their own eyes how the production process works and ask questions to the makers.
Next to the Production Square, a space has been set up for demonstrations of machines: the so-called Demo Square. Five exhibitors will demonstrate the operation of their machines to the public on this square during the three exhibition days.
On the production square, the participants join forces and show the visitor that Electronics production in the Benelux entails many advantages. Consider, for example, the further automation of production lines, savings in transport costs compared to other production countries, and the shorter lines between customer and producer.
The pavilion consists of a total of 200 square meters. Those interested can combine a visit to the pavilion with a visit to the Electronics Production seminar.
More information about the design of the pavilion and the participants will follow soon. Do you have questions about the production square? Then please contact Marc Berkouwer.