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Electrocomponents moves to the heart of digital innovation in London
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lectrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers, has moved its global head office to London as part of its strategy to ensure the continued growth and success of the business. The new premises located at Two Pancras Square consolidates the company’s headquarters and existing London-based digital operations into a single head office and digital hub. The new head office places
Electrocomponents at the heart of digital innovation in London, enabling the business to further extend its leadership in digital. Pancras Square is part of a new thriving development at the gateway to King’s Cross and houses Google, YouTube, and Universal Music UK. The location and improved facilities will enable the company to attract and retain key talent to continue to transform its performance. The location also offers excellent transport links for international colleagues and visitors, and for staff based at the company’s RS UK site in Corby.
Lindsley Ruth, CEO of
Electrocomponents, commented: “With big ambitions for growth, it’s vital that we develop the right culture and reputation to become first choice for our customers, suppliers and employees. Using the strong momentum we’ve gained, we are driving more innovation into the business to address our changing market. Our new London
Two thirds of thermal engineers must spend a day or more solving their designs, limiting efficiency and time-to-market
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6 per cent of thermal engineers must wait at least a day for their thermal simulations to solve. That’s according to the new State of Thermal report from 6SigmaET, which asked 170 thermal engineers in the electronics industry – including users of nine of the top thermal simulation suites – to share their views on thermal simulation.
office will help us to ensure that we are synonymous with innovation and creativity.”
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Thermal simulations of electronics are being modelling in ever increasing detail requiring specialist software and powerful hardware. While 66 per cent of thermal engineers must spend a day or more waiting for their equations to solve, 32 per cent can complete this step in under an hour. This suggests a drastic difference in the capabilities of the thermal simulation packages currently on the market. 6SigmaET’s research also highlights a number of other bottlenecks within the traditional thermal simulation process. 39 per cent of thermal engineers must spend over an hour simply importing their CAD models from a design suite into their current simulation platform. 51 per cent also consider the initial model creation stage to be too slow. Despite these concerns however, 60 per cent of thermal engineers have not switched simulation provider for over three years, while almost half have never switched.
Commenting on these findings, Tom
Gregory, product manager at 6SigmaET said: “Given the advancements made in thermal engineering over the last ten years, it’s concerning to see so many engineers still relying on outdated processes and technology to complete their designs. Through advancements such as cloud-solving, there is no reason why engineers should be spending days solving their simulations. “Our research surveyed users of nine of the world’s leading thermal simulation packages. This analysis highlights significant loyalty, with many engineers preferring to maintain a slow or unreliable system that they know, rather than switch to a more modern – yet less familiar – tool. To address this, we believe that many of today’s simulation providers must look to simplify their suites, increasingly automating processes to cut down build times, speed up solving and ultimately shorten the average time-to-market for designs. By incorporating the latest cloud- solving technology, a familiar user interface designed to mimic traditional business software packages, an unstructured-grid solver and automated processes, the latest version of 6sigmaET overcomes all of these issues.” To download a copy of 6SigmaET’s State of Thermal report visit:
www.6sigmaet.info/whyswitch
The IET launches ‘Engineering the Next Generation’, in collaboration with ITN Productions
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he Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and ITN Productions have launched a news and current
affairs-style programme ‘Engineering the Next Generation,’ which explores the challenges, careers and future of modern engineering in the UK. With the government announcing the £229 million of industrial strategy investment, ‘Engineering the Next Generation’ brings to life the opportunities and challenges the sector in the UK faces, the changes in policy and long term impact on the UK economy. ‘Engineering the Next Generation’ showcases the work being done to attract our future generations to engineering and the diverse range of jobs available in this sector, many which are unknown to career seekers. The programme also looks into how work experience and apprenticeships
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play a vital role in attracting the younger generation into a rewarding and life-long career in engineering. Drawing upon ITN’s 60-year heritage and expertise in storytelling, the news-style piece combines key interviews including Alison Carr, director of Governance and Policy from the IET and Great British Bake Off star Andrew Smyth. The programme also includes stories from leading organisations including Bosch UK, EPSRC, G-Research, Johnson & Johnson Medical Limited, National Composites Centre, NM group, Reaction Engine Ltd, Thales, TTP plc and University of Strathclyde. The programme will form part of an extensive communications campaign featuring industry partners, as well as relevant journalists, writers and bloggers. Alison Carr, IET director of Policy, said: “Our new online programme
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‘Engineering the Next Generation’ addresses the current, most important challenges we are facing in the engineering and technology industry as well as showcasing the huge range of exciting and rewarding opportunities engineering presents. Engineers are creators,
inventors and innovators and we hope this programme inspires the next generation of talent, who will play a vital role in shaping our future.” Simon Shelley, head of Industry News,
ITN Productions, said: “ITN Productions are delighted to have partnered with The Institution of Engineering and Technology to explore the future of engineering, what is being done to attract young people into
engineering and the extensive range of careers available in modern engineering. By examining the importance of engineering we hope to contribute to the debate on how we ensure the growth, talent and perceptions of the sector.” To watch ‘Engineering the Next Generation’, please visit the IET’s website:
www.theiet.org/itn www.cieonline.co.uk
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