Sponsoring student racing.

Analog Devices sponsors formula student team wob-racing for 2023 season.

As a platinum sponsor of the student Team wob-racing’s latest Formula Student race car, the WR17, Analog Devices (ADI) is continuing to support the future of engineering talent in the automotive industry. The race car utilises a wide range of ADI’s technology within the electric vehicle powertrain, including within the inverter assembly and battery management system. With ADI’s broad portfolio of cutting-edge technology, it was a natural progression for Team wob-racing to approach ADI for sponsorship of the team for their 2023 season, alongside other automotive ecosystem players such as Vector and Bertrandt.

LtoR: Felix Veltmaat, Technical Leader at Team wob-racing, Yannick Limberg, Commercial Project Management Leader at Team wob-racing, Jörg Vollandt, Principal Field Applications Engineer, and Rocco Marco Guglielmi, Staff Field Applications Engineer both with Automotive at Analog Devices in EMEA

“It’s so inspiring to see these young people flex their creativity with some fantastic engineering in their automotive designs. Nurturing the future of our industry requires everyone to foster a spirit of collaboration in our incoming talent,” said Shalini Palmer, Corporate Vice President of Sales, EMEA at ADI. “At ADI, we’ve partnered with many of the most innovative organisations in the automotive sector and we see how incredibly important co-creation is for accelerating towards a more sustainable future. Investing in the future workforce is a priority, and ADI is very proud to sponsor Team wob-racing.”

Founded 20 years ago by students of the Faculty of Automotive Engineering at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences (D), Team wob-racing is one of the oldest Formula Student racing teams in Germany. In 2011, the project pivoted to designing electric vehicles. The latest concept, the WR17, is the team’s most optimised design thus far. It is capable of accelerating to 100km/h within 2.2 seconds. Effective energy management is a critical capability for electric vehicles to achieve better performance and longer range, and ADI continues to lead that charge through its innovations in automotive electrification technology.

The future engineers made one of the biggest innovations in the team's history with their new in-house developed inverters. Alongside the battery management system, the inverters are another important component of the race car, which uses many ADI parts. To complete the development, the team was able to use an axle test rig from their sponsor Bertrandt to evaluate the best possible electronic control of the system.

“The most important factor for the one-year development of a Formula Student Race car is reliability and short-term availability, especially for electronic components. We were able to easily integrate ADI’s solutions into almost every electronic assembly in our WR17, thanks to the high quality and truly extensive product range they provided,” said Felix Veltmaat, Technical Leader at Team wob-racing.

@ADI_News @wob_racing #Automotive #Ostfalia #Germany

Love all! Grass court tennis sponsors.

The Harting Technology Group is once again the "Official Technology Partner" of the GERRY WEBER OPEN. The technology group thus continues its successful 2017 and 2018 partnership for the 27th tournament edition of the renowned ATP 500 series grass-court event at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle/Westphalia (D) from June 15-23, 2019.

Ralf Weber (left), Tournament Director of the GERRY WEBER OPEN, and Philip Harting, Board Chairman of Harting

"The high-karat tournament has an international luster that extends far beyond Ostwestfalen-Lippe. We view our commitment as a clear signal that this year we reliably support the Gerry Weber Open," says Philip Harting, Chairman of the Board of Harting, emphasising that "top-level sports and top-level technology belong together."

27th GERRY WEBER OPEN  June 15 - 23 - 2019

The Group will once again be a competent technology partner for the ATP tennis event this year with solutions for stage, LED and sound technology as well as digital systems in which the Edge Gateway MICA® is used as a data collector for the condition of the lawn. In addition, elements for the stadium roof technology in the Gerry Weber Sadium are used year round, and the high-quality equipment and features of the referee chairs is provided during the tournament week of the 27th GERRY WEBER OPEN. "We’re very pleased that with the HARTING Technology Group we will continue our successful partnership from the past two years in 2019 as well," says tournament director Ralf Weber. "This is a clear commitment to the Gerry Weber Open by a strong economic partner from our region."

@HARTING_Group @GERRYWEBERWORLD #Germany @Harting

Sponsor for control system conference.

Seeq will sponsor this year’s Control System Integrators Association annual conference as it grows its worldwide partner network.

Seeq will join more than 500 control system integrators from around the globe on April 24-27 in San Francisco (CS USA) for the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Executive Conference. Seeq is excited to be a member of CSIA and participate in the annual Executive Conference where members meet, collaborate and learn from each other.

“System Integrators are critical to the delivery of Seeq as an advanced analytics solution. Our customers rely upon the experience and expertise of CSIA members to enable solutions that deliver insight and drive results,” highlighted Michael Risse, CMO and VP of Strategy for Seeq.

“We are excited to welcome our system integrators, as well as CSIA members like Seeq that contribute to our theme of ‘Growth Through Innovation and Sound Business Practices.’ Each year our members are excited to get together, share best practices, and learn about the latest technologies contributing to their success and growth,” commented CSIA Board Chair, Jeff Miller, from Interstates Control Systems.

In addition to training workshops and educational sessions, CSIA will host their Annual Industry Expo where Seeq will be featured in Booth 37. Seeq will also be sponsoring and participating in the CSIA Fun Run/Walk.

“CSIA not only provides a great environment to learn from others, but also to identify emerging technologies like Seeq. Customers are demanding insights into the data they collect and utilizing Seeq along with our operations expertise to make their companies more data driven and agile” according to Nick Wiley, Executive Vice President at Casne Engineering, a CSIA member since 2008.

@SeeqCorporation #PAuto @CSIAtweet

Sponsored skier at top of her game!

Gresham Power Electronics sponsored skier, Nicole Shering, has had a very successful year competing on indoor and outdoor surfaces.

Organised by GBski the Final British Artificial Seeding List (BARTS) has now been published for the end of 2017 dry slope ski season.

The BARTS seed list is an on-going list of registered competitors with their current seed points, calculated on the basis of their performance in artificial slope races of national significance compared with other registered competitors competing in each race. The lowest seed points “zero” indicates the best level of performance by a racer.

During this season, Nicole took part in 28 individual races on indoor and outdoor surfaces and she was U18 female winner in 20 of them and overall fastest female in 18 of the races, which is quite some achievement.

Nicole's titles for 2017 are:

• British Ski Academy GBR Series U18 and Overall Female Outdoor Champion
• British Ski Academy GBR Series U18 and Overall Female Combined Indoor and Outdoor Champion
• Welsh Outdoor U18 and Overall Female Champion
• Irish International Slalom U18 and Overall Outdoor Female Champion
• Irish Open Outdoor U18 and Overall Female Champion

It has been a very long wait since the last dry slope race of the season back in early October in Ireland for Nicole to find out the final standings for this year with the list just being issued. The top prize on the dry slope circuit is to be the “Zero” point racer with only one female and one male having this title and this is now Nicole Shering

She will go into the start of the 2018 season in April as the athlete that everyone now wants to beat. Nicole will have this seeding for the whole season and her aim will then to continue to race at the very high standard she has achieved already and if she continues at this remarkable level she hopes continue as the female 0.00 racer again for 2018.

Nicole could not have achieved this without the continuing support from Gresham over the last few years, to get her where she is now, at the top of her sport, for which she is extremely grateful

Jake Moir, Managing Director of Gresham Power Electronics comments, "We are very proud to be able to play our part in the development of a local athlete and that her continued success in competitions has led to this great achievement.”

@GreshamPower 

Dragons in Formula E.

Mouser Electronics sponsor the Dragon Racing team throughout the 2017–18 FIA Formula E racing season. The season kicks off December 2 and 3 at the Hong Kong ePrix doubleheader.

Formula E
The 2017–2018 season marks the fourth edition of Formula E racing and the fourth-straight year that Mouser Electronics will be a team sponsor. Formula E features cars powered solely by electric power and represents a vision for the future of the motor sports industry, serving as a framework for research and development around zero-emission motoring. Mouser will sponsor Dragon Racing team throughout the 14-race season in collaboration with TTI, Inc. and their valued supplier Molex. More about Formula E on Wikipedia.

“We are very proud to continue to sponsor Dragon Racing and to be a part of this forward-looking technology,” said Todd McAtee, Vice President, Americas Business Development for Mouser Electronics. “The Dragon team finished strong last year, and we look forward to another great season ahead.

“Formula E cars require the latest sustainable and — most importantly — high-performance components to gain the competitive edge. By teaming up with TTI and Molex to sponsor Dragon Racing, Mouser shows its commitment to keeping engineers up to date with these innovative technologies.”

“TTI is proud to once again support this thrilling team and the sustainable automotive technologies of the future,” stated Mike Morton, President, TTI Global Sales and Marketing.

“All of us at Molex are pleased for the opportunity to again team up with Mouser and TTI in sponsoring this pioneering venture,” said Fred Bell, Vice President of Global Distribution for Molex. “We are thrilled to be involved in the development of the innovative technology behind Formula E.”
• Founded by Jay Penske, Dragon Racing earned second place in team points in the inaugural 2014–2015 season, after clinching first and third finishes at the Berlin ePrix and another double-podium at London. This season’s drivers — Jerome D’Ambrosio, who won the 2015 Berlin ePrix and who had several strong outings with Dragon Racing last year, and Neel Jani, winner of the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2016 FIA WEC Drivers’ Championship — look to rack up more points with new Formula E races in Zurich and Rome.

Following the season opener in Hong Kong, the series heads to Marrakesh, Morocco on January 13; Santiago, Chile, February 3; Mexico City, March 3; São Paulo, March 17; Rome, April 14; Paris, April 28; Berlin, May 19; Zurich, June 10; and New York City, July 14 and 15 before ending the season with two races in Montreal on July 28 and 29.

@MouserElecEU #Pauto @DragonRacing ‏@FIAFormulaE

Camogie team qualifies for National tournament!

For the first time in five years the young women of Celbridge GAA club (IRL) have qualified for the Féile na nGael All Ireland Tournament, and Mitsubishi Electric are supporting them all the way.

The Féile na nGael All Ireland Tournament is an annual GAA Tournament running since 1971 which encompasses all 32 counties in Ireland. The tournament consists of the Gaelic sports of hurling, camogie and handball and is organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

This year the annual tournament will be held in Ulster with over 152 clubs and 3,000 players participating. The tournament will be held on the weekend of 19th – 21st June across the nine Ulster counties and County Louth where representatives from Ireland and overseas will be hosted.

The young women of Celbridge Camogie will be representing County Kildare in the U14 Camogie tournament. “This is the first time in 5 years that Celbridge Camogie have qualified for this National Tournament and we are delighted that Mitsubishi Electric are helping them get there,” said Seán Ó Riain, Camogie Coach, Celbridge GAA Club.

“Mitsubishi Electric recognise the role sport plays in the personal, social and cultural development of young people in communities. It helps teach people from a young age important skills such as team work and leadership and we are proud to be able to support the Celbridge girls in any way we can,” Ciarán Moody, General Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Ireland.

• So what is Camogie. Here's the story!

FDT Group Sponsoring Member announced!

M&M Software GmbH of St. Georgen (D), has elevated it membership status to that of sponsoring member of the FDT Group. In raising its support to the highest level possible, M&M Software will take a seat on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the FDT Group.

"I am delighted to have M&M Software as a sponsoring member," comments Glenn Schulz, Managing Director of the FDT Group. "M&M Software has been active in the FDT Group since its inception and has played key roles in our Architecture and Specification working group, our Test and Certification working group, and various marketing committees. The M&M Software commercial products and services are major components of the FDT® ecosystem. Their executive leadership is a welcomed enhancement of their support of FDT."

"FDT is the most important technology standard used in our business unit software solutions for device integration," observes Mr. Andreas Boerngen, Director of Sales and Marketing at M&M Software. "In the past years we already have contributed a lot on working group level. With the introduction of FDT2™, we see a huge potential to take the standard a step further by integrating and combining of latest trends and technologies like mobile and cloud computing. We want accelerate the FDT 1 to FDT2 transition. Most importantly, we want to listen closely to the system providers and end users of FDT to learn more about their requirements and needs on device integration."

M&M Software has nominated Mr. Andreas Boerngen to the Board of Directors and Mr. Frank Schmid to the Executive Committee of the FDT Group.

Sponsored for European Heart and Lung Transplant Games

Last Summer, Mitsubishi Electric sponsored David Berber in the 14th European Heart and Lung Transplant Games in Apeldoorn (NL). The idea of the games is to help raise awareness and to encourage donations across the globe, while at the same time, allowing the recipients to honour their donors and express gratitude for this Gift of Life.

Ciarán Moody, Mitsubishi Electric Ireland Factory Automation, David Berber, MD, Automation and Control Engineering and Michael Sheehan, Mitsubishi Electric Ireland Living Environmental Systems

Mitsubishi Electric have had a long and successful association with David through his distribution company Automation and Control Engineering over the past twenty years.

David received a heart transplant in May 2011 and was a first time participant in the games. David partook in two sports, table tennis and the 50m swim, taking home the silver in the 50m swim.

David is now a committee member of the Irish Heart and Lung transplant Association and speaks of his complete admiration for the Heart and Lung Transplant games;

“People forget that someone has to die so that you live and celebrate this remarkable gift you have been given. The games aim to raise awareness after a near death experience and to try somehow honour the donor and the donors’ families in some small way," he says.

Mitsubishi Electric were proud to be able to sponsor David in the European Heart and Lungs Transplant games and wish him the best of luck for the future.

Festo is headline sponsor of Appetite for Engineering #PAuto #Food

Festo is the headline sponsor of Appetite for Engineering (A4E), the major food and drink manufacturing conference taking place in Kenilworth (GB) on 25 September 2013.

Andy McPherson

“Food and drink manufacturing and processing is a key industry for Festo and it is important to see the sector thriving in automation and building trust from farm to fork,” says Andy Macpherson, Industry Sector Manager – Food and Beverage at Festo. “We are proud to be supporting the event and building the skills in the sector to use the latest automation methods.”

The event will provide lively debate on food and drink manufacturing within Britain and beyond, around the three key themes of integrity, efficiency and responsibility. Festo’s involvement shows the company’s commitment to maximising productivity and improving efficiency in food processing.

“The event is an excellent opportunity for food and beverage industry leaders to get together to discuss innovation, automation, engineering, production and skills for the future of the sector,” continues Andy. “Manufacturers need flexible, versatile automation machinery to operate more efficiently and maximise profits, and this means applying the latest technology to solve today’s production challenges.”

• The A4E event is expected to be attended by Britain’s leading food manufacturers, brands, supermarkets, academics, government bodies and researchers and is taking place at Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth on 25 September 2013.

World land speed record attempt!

Stemmer Imaging has become a sponsor of the exciting ‘Bloodhound SSC’ project which will be attempting to set a new world land speed record in 2015. Bloodhound SSC is a British project to build a jet and rocket powered car designed to travel at 1,000 mph. Stemmer’s sponsorship involves the supply and integration of up to 11 cameras at strategic points on the car.

The Bloodhound project’s objective of reaching 1000 mph will smash the current world land speed record of 763.035 mph (mach 1.02) set by ThrustSSC in 1997. The project, which began in 2008, is described as an incredible engineering adventure that will ‘confront the impossible and overcome it using science, engineering, technology and mathematics’.

Mark Williamson, Director – Corporate Market Development at Stemmer Imaging said: “This is a really exciting project and the engineering team at Stemmer Imaging will be working closely with the Bloodhound development team to produce and record video data for both engineering and broadcast purposes. Not surprisingly, high-speed imaging is a critical component of this. To put it into context, Bloodhound will travel faster than a bullet fired from a Magnum 357 gun, covering the length of four and a half football pitches in just 1 second! Video data will need to be date stamped and linked into the on-board control electronics so that individual frames can be related back to control events. We are relishing the challenge as many of Bloodhound’s systems are working at the edge of physics.”

Cameras will have various roles to play. Forward facing cameras will deliver live streamed video for broadcast purposes, while rear-facing cameras will be looking at the output from the rocket and jet engine exhausts. Other cameras will monitor critical engineering parameters such as the wheel-ground interface. In-cockpit cameras will monitor controls and driver actions.

Bloodhound will be 12 metres long and video data will be managed through an Ethernet data communication bus. STEMMER IMAGING is currently working with the Bloodhound team to define the detailed supply specification and will be providing further news on how the system will work and be deployed as the project develops.

Motor racing sponsorship

Electronic instrumentation specialists to provide student racing team with essential measurement technology

Mantracourt Electronics has announced that it will be providing further sponsorship to Formula SAE ÉTS, a student racing car team based out of École de Technologie Supérieure in Montréal, Canada.

The Formula SAE ÉTS team approached Mantracourt in 2009 for access to their specialist instrumentation equipment and unique products.

The team use Mantracourt's wireless torque and load measurement technology to monitor car performance to gain essential information for both testing design modifications and to optimise race-track settings.

During the 2012 season the Formula SAE ÉTS team enjoyed considerable success in several international competitions whereby they secured a number of 1st and 3rd places, against fierce competition.

“We really value Mantracourt’s sponsorship and technical assistance", said Patrick Leroux, Manager of Vehicle Electronics. “Wireless torque measurement is really important to improve our racecar. We use it for differential load transfer characterisation for many setups and it helps us to choose which one is the best for our application. It also helps us improve our differential model in our lap simulator.”

The Formula SAE Competition is organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Over 500 competing university teams from all over the globe, design, build and test prototype Formula-style racing cars and compete in categories such as Design, Endurance, Fuel Economy, Acceleration, Cost & Manufacturing Analysis.

UK based Mantracourt is a leading manufacturer of industrial measurement technologies, including strain gauge, temperature, resistance, pressure, voltage, current, potentiometer, rate, flow, LVDT and displacement in either analogue, digital or wireless form.

“We are very pleased to be continuing our sponsorship of the ETS team,” said Louise Stubbs, Marketing Coordinator at Mantracourt. “We share a similar passion about our technology, as they do about their car design, so it has been exciting and fun to be a part of their success. We wish them all the best for the 2013 season. We will be following the team’s performance.”

Mantracourt has recently announced the release of its T24LOG100, a data logging software package that can handle up to 100 channels of wireless instrumentation data simultaneously whilst also offering a range of sophisticated features that will enable engineers to optimise system monitoring and control.

Test + Measurement races ahead!

The British subsidiary of Yokogawa’s European Test & Measurement operation – has entered into a sponsorship deal with Oxfordshire-based Drayson Racing Technologies to support Drayson’s pioneering development of electrically driven racing cars.

The sponsorship agreement involves Yokogawa supplying Drayson with selected items of test equipment including oscilloscopes and power meters, in exchange for which the Yokogawa logo will be displayed on the Lola-Drayson B12/69EV Le Mans prototype electric drive racing car.

The culmination of Drayson Racing’s long experience in green technology since pioneering bio-ethanol fuels in 2007, this ground-breaking vehicle has been designed to demonstrate the potential of green technologies in the harsh environment of motorsport.

Project pioneer Lord Drayson, former UK Minister of Science & Innovation, Managing Partner at Drayson Racing Technologies and President of the Motorsport Industry Association, comments: “Electric racing represents a considerable new business opportunity for motorsport and underlines the growing commercial potential of green racing technology. Electric-powered racing is really taking off with the launch of the new FIA Formula E world championship for electric racing cars planned for 2013, and we are thrilled to be at the forefront of the push for innovation at such an exciting time for the sport and the industry.”

The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV racing car incorporates a number of technical advances such as inductive charging, composite battery power, moveable aerodynamics and electrical regenerative damping, making it one of the most innovative clean-technology motorsport projects in the world. With a power output of over 850 horsepower, it also aims to be the fastest electrically powered racing car yet developed.

Angus Lyon, Chief Engineer, Electric Drive Train, with Drayson Racing Technologies, is enthusiastic about the benefits of the sponsorship agreement for his development work: “The Yokogawa test instruments will help us to address a number of challenges in the design of critical components of the drive train - in particular, identifying and eliminating the cause of electrical noise and interference that inevitably occur in the harsh automotive environment.”

Andy Barnes, UK Sales Manager for Yokogawa Measurement Technologies, is equally positive about the relationship: “We are delighted to be associated with such a prestigious project in a technology sector which totally reflects our corporate focus. Yokogawa’s test instruments are at the forefront of measurements in the power electronics field with particular emphasis on sustainable technology and energy efficiency, and this project is an outstanding example of how advanced engineering techniques can be used to achieve these aims. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.”