The boss has gone away, and left us to fend for ourselves for a week.
Time to sit back, watch some virals on YouTube, drink copious amounts of tea and generally relax.
Right?
Wrong.
It’s easy to feel a bit inattentive when the boss is away, but we don't have time to put our feet up - this week is another busy one for Sarsen. We have quotes to send out, customers to visit and new enquiries to follow up. It’s also a good time to start looking at 2013, with marketing plans to be drawn up, and exhibitions schedules to look at.
And speaking of exhibitions, the next one on the Sarsen calendar is the Advanced Engineering UK Show on 7th /8th November at the NEC in Birmingham. Tim Norris will be representing Sarsen Technology at the show, if you would like to meet up with him to discuss a new project, or one of our products in particular, please drop us a line.
Oh. And FYI, there are only 8 weekends left before Christmas!!
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!
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.
