EVOC Gathering - Dusseldorf

Prior to visiting the EVOC Dusseldorf office, the EVOC European distribution team met to discuss market applications and EVOC's plans for Europe in 2010. Here are a few images from the meeting.

EVOC Distributor Gathering in Dusseldorf

On Monday 16th November Tim & Nigel of Sarsen Technology attended the inaugural EVOC European distributor meeting in Dusseldorf. Amy Pan, EVOC's Director of Global Sales presented the key note speech. We were pleased to meet up with old friends including colleagues from EVOC, Pietro from Eurolink Systems in Italy and Otto from Expando Systems in Sweden. Nigel also enjoyed meeting with an "on-line" industry colleague - Patrick Hooper of Open Systems Media. Following a full day of presentations from the EVOC team and four of the distributors (including a presentation by Sarsen) a visit to EVOC's Dusseldorf office was arranged. This office provides technical support services to the European market and also contains an impressive showroom featuring the extensive embedded computing solutions available from EVOC.

BittWare & Sarsen Technology meet with key customers in Scotland

On Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd November Burkhard Jour and Bernard Doherty of BittWare joined Nigel at meetings with key clients in the Edinburgh area. Between meetings we stopped off to view the Forth Rail Bridge.

EVOC Distributor Gathering - Duesseldorf

Tim & Nigel are travelling to the EVOC Distributor Gathering in Duesseldorf on Sunday 15th November. Nigel is making a short presentation to the gathering on Monday afternoon.

EVOC's Yanyan and Laura share a coffee break

EVOC's Chinese name is YanXiang and they have a male and female mascot called Yanyan and Xiangxiang respectively. Pictured here is Laura, who is with our Oxygen Electronics UK team, and Yanyan sharing a coffee break. EVOC is China's largest manufacturer of embedded computing hardware. Please visit their website at www.evoc.com to find out more.

Trenton Systems Expand Gainesville Manufacturing Facility

Trenton Systems has recently opened their expanded manufacturing facility in Gainesville, Georgia, USA.

New 19" Rackmount Computer website launched by Trenton Technology

Trenton Systems launch their new Rackmount Computer systems web site featuring 2U, 4U, 5U, 6U, MicroTCA and custom solutions: Trenton Systems

EVOC meet the sarsen stones at Stonehenge

On the way back to Heathrow, David, Jonny, Achilles and Nigel found time for a flying visit to Stonehenge. Stonehenge is 20 miles due south from the Sarsen Technology office and the large sarsen stones used to build the outer ring of the henge were dragged that distance from their original home on the Marlborough Downs. The outer ring is estimated to have been completed 3500 years ago.

Old Trafford one day, Stonehenge the next.....

Sarsen's travels with our colleagues from EVOC www.evoc.com took us to Preston and Rochdale on Wednesday 14th October. On Thursday we were in Hunmanby and Salford. We took the opportunity to visit Old Trafford whilst we were there and Achilles got into the Christmas spirit in the megastore!

On Friday we travelled to Wincanton and stopped off at Stonehenge on the way to Heathrow. Quite a contrast to Old Trafford.

Off on our travels again

The UK leg of the Defence & Aerospace road show is over but we are now entertaining three visitors from EVOC www.evoc.com Tim took David, Jonny & Achilles to customer meetings in Farnborough and Crowthorne today. Tomorrow, Nigel is driving our guests to meet with clients in Preston, Rochdale and Hunmanby in north Yorkshire.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Day 16

The road show reached its final destination today at EADS in Newport, south Wales. Sarsen Technology was the exhibitor with the largest number of visitor enquiries over the 16 days of the UK tour and John Aldridge, owner of Dream Marketing, presented Nigel with an "outstanding contribution" award (principally for being the only person to attend every single one of the 16 days).

The road show was a successful event for Sarsen and raised our profile greatly at a number of key UK defence and aerospace OEMs.

The tour continues this week at Airbus in Toulouse. Sarsen Technology will not be travelling to France but we wish our colleagues at BittWare and EMG2 every success.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Day 15

Day 15 of the roadshow was a second busy, but shorter, day at QinetiQ at Boscombe Down. We had a number of discussions with the QinetiQ project teams on solutions from BittWare, Oxygen Electronics, Trenton Technology and VersaLogic. This was the last stop on the roadshow for a number of new friends from participating exhibitors. The photo above is of Michelle from Qualitetch and Steve from Cinch. The roadshow continues next week and visits EADS in Newport on Monday 12th October.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Day 14

Day 14 of the roadshow took us to QinetiQ at Boscombe Down near Salisbury. The heavy rain had finally stopped. Steve from Cinch pointed out that it was still summer when the roadshow had started and now it was definately autumn. This site is just 20 miles from the Sarsen Technology office and the roadshow was very busy from the moment it opened. We had a number of good conversations with the QinetiQ engineering teams and the sarsen stress rock giveaways were all handed out by 10.30am. More sarsen stones are being mined this evening for tomorrow's roadshow at QinetiQ - Boscombe Down from 9.30am until midday.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Day 13

Very familiar ground for Sarsen Technology when the roadshow visited Thales Underwater Systems in Templecombe, Somerset today. Despite the heavy rain, the visitor numbers were very good and Sarsen Technology met with a good number of the Thales team. There are a number of good new project opportunities for the technologies exhibited by Sarsen and everyone participating in the roadshow seemed to have a very busy and productive day. Just two more days of the 15 to go! Tomorrow the European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow visits QinetiQ in Boscombe Down.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - 6th October 2009

The roadshow was in a rainy Bristol for the second day running. Today the circus sorry roadshow visited Rolls-Royce. Both Airbus and Rolls-Royce would seem to be investing heavily in new R&D and production facilities in Bristol - great to see. It was a busy day at Roll-Royce with Oxygen Electronics obsolete component sourcing technology of most interest to the visitors to the Sarsen Technology booth. Tomorrow the roadshow heads south to Thales in Templecombe.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Week 3

The Roadshow will be visiting the following sites on week three:

• Monday 5th Oct - Airbus - Filton - Bristol
• Tuesday 6th Oct - Rolls-Royce - Filton - Bristol
• Wednesday 7th Oct - Thales Group - Templecombe
  
• Thursday 8th Oct - QinetiQ - Boscombe Down - Amesbury
• Friday 9th Oct - QinetiQ - Boscombe Down - Amesbury

The roadshow is open from 9.30am until 2pm each day. The full list of manufacturers and suppliers include Cinch connectors, TT Electronics, Jaltech, Morgan ceramics, Reliance Precision, Variohm Eurosensor, ETL, Phillips Screw Co and Altium. We look forward to seeing you there!

Roadshow Update - Friday 2 October

The European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow visited BAE Systems Aerosystems International in Yeovil on Friday 2nd October. There was a good turn out from a number of the departments at the site. The Trenton Systems 19" Rackmount embedded computing systems and the VersaLogic EBX format single board computers were the solutions of most interest. The Sarsen Technology sarsen stone/rock giveaways are still proving popular. Yeovil is a town dominated by helicopter technology and businesses focussed on that market. The Friday afternoon drive home was made more enjoyable by listening to the new CD compilation provided by Darren Taylor at BittWare. Thanks again Darren!

Roadshow Travels - Thursday 1st October

Today the roadshow visited GE Avionics in Cheltenham. Nigel is trying to remember that there is no nearside wing mirror whilst negotiating the morning traffic! The roadshow organisers had re-arranged the stand layout on the mega truck but Sarsen Technology still had the same spot. A number of useful discussions with Systems Engineers today. Tomorrow the roadshow visits BAE Systems in Yeovil.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Week 2

The roadshow has visited Roke Manor Research in Romsey, BAE Systems in Farnborough and Lockheed-Martin in Havant this week. Tomorrow it is Thursday so it must be GE Aviation in Cheltenham and on Friday it is BAE Systems Aerosystems International in Yeovil. This week the locations are very convenient for Sarsen as they are all about an hours drive north, south, east and west from Marlborough. Nigel's car sustained some damage returning from Goodrich last Friday. A tyre was punctured and then a truck ran over the jack whilst the wheel was being changed which resulted in the nearside wing mirror being ripped off. It could have been a lot worse but not the best way to end a long working week!

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - Thursday 28th September Photos

The European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 visited Lockheed-Martin (INSYS) on Thursday 28th September. Visitors to the Sarsen Technology stand discussed the technology solutions from Trenton Technology, BittWare, Oxygen Electronics and VersaLogic.

The weather was perfect all week - if you weren't stuck on a lorry, that is! The Roadshow was well attended at every stop of the tour with more than 350 visitors. Of the 20 companies exhibiting on the truck, Sarsen has generated the most interest so far.

Oxygen Electronics Blog

Find out what is happening in the world of sourcing obsolete, allocated and hard-to-find electronic components at the Oxygen Electronics blog: http://oxygenelectronics.blogspot.com

"Oxygen Electronics, founded in 1995, is a leading Independent Distributor of Electronic Components. With more than 90,000 different obsolete items are currently in stock, sales staff in both North American and Europe and tens of thousands of transactions completed annually, our experience and knowledge are second to none."

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - First Week Photos

A few images from the first week of the 2009 European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Roadshow. More will be added next week when visiting Siemens Roke Manor Research, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and GE Aviation.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009 - First Week

An enjoyable and productive week meeting new and old customers at Selex S&AS in Luton, Goodrich Automation Systems in Wolverhampton, Rolls-Royce in Derby, Lockheed Martin (INSYS) in Ampthill and Goodrich Power Systems in Pitstone. The key product areas that generated the most interest were the EVOC rugged laptops, BittWare's Altera Stratix IV FPGA solutions, Trenton Technology's 19" Rackmount server solutions and VersaLogic's PC/104-Plus Single Board Computers.

The sites to be visited next week are closer to home for the Sarsen team so no more nights away! Monday is Siemens Roke Manor Research in Romsey, then BAE Systems in Farnborough, followed by Lockheed-Martin in Havant on Wednesday, GE Aviation in Cheltenham on Thursday and BAE Systems Aerosystems International in Yeovil on Friday. If you are planning to visit the Roadshow or would like more details please visit this site http://www.aero-mag.com/issues/september09/PDF/AM_September09_Supplement.pdf or call Sarsen Technology on 01672 511166.

Trenton Technology Blog

Discover what is new in the world of high-end industrial embedded computing by visiting the Trenton Technology blog at http://blog.trentontechnology.com

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009

Sarsen Technology is one of twenty companies participating in the 2009 European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow. The roadshow takes place this year between 21st September - 16th October on a one month tour across the UK and Europe visiting many of the industry's major design, development and research facilities along the way. Included on the itinerary are visits to Selex Galileo in Luton, Goodrich Actuation Systems in Wolverhampton, Rolls-Royce in Derby, Lockheed-Martin in Ampthill, Goodrich Power Systems in Pitstone, Siemens Roke Manor in Romsey, BAE Systems in Farnborough and GE Aviation in Cheltenham.

On board the exhibition vehicle is a group of twenty suppliers demonstrating leading edge technologies for the defence and aerospace markets directly to customers on it's premises, meeting directly with many of the engineers and developers who don't always manage to get to more traditional trade shows.

We are currently in Derby meeting with Rolls-Royce and Sarsen Technology is discussing new Altera Stratix IV GX COTS hardware from BittWare, Oxygen Electronics component sourcing services, high-performance PICMG 1.3 computing solutions from Trenton Technology and rugged, embedded single board computing solutions from VersaLogic. There is a good mix of technology solutions on the roadshow and customers are keen to discuss new project opportunities. Tomorrow is Thursday so it must be Lockheed-Martin (INSYS) in Ampthill!