Day 2: Wednesday 8 May 2019

We recently saw that Toyota had to pay out $1.2 billion in a fine due to poor firmware, which means this was the most expensive code ever written. Yet they most likely felt they were saving money by taking shortcuts in building their code.

As firmware grows ever bigger we need new approaches to get it done on-time and bug-free. In this talk we’ll examine how we’ve built firmware in the past, and what we need to do in the future.

The enthusiastic atmosphere at the beginning of a challenging development project can turn into a negative mood when the involved teams stumble over unclear detail definitions, time consuming changes or unpredictable details which lead to unplanned and costly design loops.

In retrospect, it often turns out that a few coordination  meetings, a better understanding between the involved specialists would have been generated a much better solution. It would have accelerated the development process, shortened the time to market, lowered the product cost and in general the product generates more revenue.

The presentation points out how to align all the necessary  specialists to convert the specification into the right product.

EMC (Electro Magnetic Compatibility) er et begreb, der beskriver evnen til sameksistens uden interferens mellem elektroniske apparater.

Ingen steder er kravet om risikobetragtninger i forbindelse med EMC gjort mere eksplicit i de harmoniserede standarder end for medicoteknisk udstyr. Men hvordan arbejder disse risikobetragtninger sammen med funktionskravene til radioudstyr, og hvordan får man gennemført test mest optimalt, så både Medical Device- og Radioudstyrdirektivet overholdes for medicinsk udstyr med Bluetooth, WiFi eller andre indbyggede radioer?

Vi tager et kig på kombinationen af krav fra to verdener, der håndterer overensstemmelse grundlæggende forskelligt.

For the last two years or so MLCC capacitors have been on extended leadtimes and allocation.

But what has caused this, how long will it last and what can customers do to alleviate issues now and in the future?

Richard Curley will in this presentation give you his take on these subjects. 

About Richard Curley
Richard Curley has been involved in the passive component industry for 30 years and worked with most of the key suppliers in different capacities. He has been through and managed several component shortage/allocation issues and have expert knowledge in this area. Richard Curley is a veteran of the European passive component market having worked for a component manufacturer and distributors. Function wise Richard has been in purchasing, business development, product management, sales and product marketing. Richard has also worked with a broad spectrum of customers from the European Telecom giants, Automotive Tier 1 suppliers, Contract Manufacturers, OEMs, startups and IoT customers. Today Richard works for Avnet Abacus managing some of the key passive suppliers.

Nearly 1.800 EMS manufacturers are working in Europe and have been analyzed by the in4ma market statistics.

The analysis showed, that the structures in Western Europe and Eastern Europe are totally different and strategies vary not only in relation to the revenue size of the companies.

Combined with a future growth perspective, answers are given how to survive in this highly competitive market

Digitale teknologier og automatisering rusker forretningsverdenen, men udfordrer de også vores samfund?

Den danske regering har nedsat Disruptionrådet for at besvare netop dette spørgsmål. Philipp Schröder, som er medlem i Disruptionrådet, giver her et unikt insider perspektiv på de udfordringer som digital forandring stiller Danmark overfor: Fra frygten for massearbejdsløshed og ulighed hen til den gigantiske udfordring, vi står overfor, når Google har overtaget hele økonomien. Hvor har politik et svar? Og hvor går vi lykkeligt uvidende ind i fremtiden?

Digitalisering er på toppen af ledelsesagendaen hos de fleste virksomheder, men hvordan kommer man i gang med den digitale omstilling?

Frederik Braun giver Microsofts perspektiv på digital transformation, og deler eksempler fra arbejdet med omstillingen af danske virksomheder.

Frederik fortæller også om Microsofts egen transformation med omstillingen af virksomhedens produkter, kultur og medarbejdere.

Join this session as we tune in on quality and effeciency in development of embedded software.

Experience four exciting speaks, one case with Grundfos and a closing panel discussion 

• Robustness in embedded software using static analysis
  • Mark Hermeling, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Grammatech
• Challenges implementing unit and integration test and how to overcome these
  • Matt Davis, Managing Director, QA-Systems
• How to integrate and maintain an automated system test in a continuous build environment
  • Anders Meister, Sales Director, CIM Electronics
• Case Story: How Grundfos have achieved control of their sw-quality using modern tools in formalized processes and workflows
  • Gert Frost, Senior Project Manager, Grundfos
• Panel discussions and QA session

NB! The session is being held from 13.00 to 14.50. 

Renesas’s new Silicon on Thin Buried Oxide ( SOTB ) technology with it’s integrated energy harvesting controller, enables a new generation of applications that can operate solely with energy harvested from the environment.

This new advanced semiconductor process enables the development of high performance microcontrollers that can operate at 20 µA/MHz but still supporting nA leakage currents and minimal start up current, so idea for applications that harvest energy from a wide variety of sources or for any ultra low power application.

The first device implemented on this process will be available later this year, and will support up to 1.5 Mbytes of on chip flash and 256 Kbytes of SRAM while operating at up to 32 MHz while still consuming only 20 µA/MHz.

During the design and development process of an electronic device many different aspects have to be incorporated to ensure an innovative and finally successful product. Experience shows that important questions are often not asked, which leads to delays, high cost or unnecessary compromises with negative impacts during the whole product life cycle.

The presentation introduces the Design for Excellence (DfX) approach which is one way to avoid such problems. Under Design for Excellence (DfX) a set of specific design guidelines are summarized. These guidelines are partly generic but more effectively also consider case specific expert knowledge. The timely definition of such guidelines
together with suppliers and the producer of the final product offers many benefits, some of which are highlighted in the presentation.

Effektivisering af maskinoperatører, sikring af oppetid, outsourcing af specialistviden, optimering af maskinudnyttelse - er alle emner som handler om kostoptimering og konkurrencedygtighed, men i høj grad fordrer digitalisering og udnyttelse af internet baserede teknologier.

Men funktioner og roller har forskellige behov i denne omstilling, og der findes ikke en one-site-fits-all IIoT løsning - eller gør der? I dette indlæg fokuseres på de forskellige typer af maskinservice "Corrective service", "Preventive service" og "Predictive service", og hvilke IIoT behov de afstedkommer. Herunder diskuteres sikkerhedsperspektiver i form af Cybersikkerhed, beskyttelse af ejerskab af data samt udfordringer ved produktionssites eller maskiner som kræver servicering fra flere uafhængige eksterne parter, tæt koblet med Industry 4.0.