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Nmi Yearbook 2014 NMI YEARBOOK 2014 Ministerial Foreword 05 Chairman’s Statement 08 Chief Executive’s Statement 10 CONTENTS Annual Review Overview 13 Representing the Industry 14 Promotion 17 Connecting and Collaborating 20 Research and Development 26 Future Skills 29 Annual Award Winners 2013 32 What the Future Needs 36 Sir Hossein Yassaie Contact: ESCO Today and the Way Forward 41 Warren East Head office, Have UK Semiconductor Startups 49 Suite 47, Geddes House, Kirkton North Had Their Chips? Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6GU Ian Macbeth, Henry Nurser T: +44 (0)1506 401210 The Electronics Industry Must 59 E: [email protected] Reach Out To Future Recruits Dr Gordon Mizner W: www.nmi.org.uk Benefits and Challenges of 67 EU R&D Engagement Regional offices: Steve East Bath, Greenock, Wokingham Adopting Model-Based Systems 73 See website for full contact details. Engineering – I know an old lady Prof Jon Holt The Connected Car 79 Andrew Birnie, Andrew Ashby Safe and Informed – 87 The Future of Driver Information Martin Green © 2014 NMI. All rights reserved. UK Embedded Systems Future: 95 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material Collaboration for Growth form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by Stuart Jobbins electronic means whether or not transiently or incidentally to some Continuous Delivery – A Supply Chain 103 other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Lesson From The Software Industry Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. Mark Warren Manufacturing In Action 107 Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the Ted Wiggans information and advertisements contained within this publication, neither NMI nor the publisher can accept any liability for errors Capability On Our Doorstep: 111 or omissions. The publisher cannot accept any responsibility Partnering Yields Great Benefits for any claims made by advertisers and their inclusion within Claire Mackay this publication should not be taken as an endorsement by the Meeting the Efficiency and 114 publisher or NMI. Maintenance Challenge Mark Sumnall Designed and produced for NMI by: Lansdowne Publishing Partnership Ltd, 11-12 School House, Inmos and the Transputer: 30 Years On 116 2nd Avenue, Trafford Park Village, Manchester M17 1DZ. Rick Chapman, Nick Flaherty Reg: 249 5522 T: 0161 872 6667; W: www.lansdownepublishing.com; NMI Board of Directors 121 E: [email protected] NMI Members Directory 122 Editor: John Moor Advertiser’s Index 138 NMI YEARBOOK 2014 03 Your software engineering partner REC Global is a software engineering company providing R&D software services, bespoke software solutions and consultancy expertise to companies across the globe. REC Global works for quality-demanding industries including Automotive, Telematics & M2M, Energy, and Web, Mobile & Enterprise Applications. REC UK has been operational in the United Kingdom since 2009. www.rec-global.co.uk Phone: +44 7919050018 Email Contact: [email protected] Michael Fallon Your software Business Minister engineering partner MINISTERIAL FOREWORD REC Global is a software engineering company providing R&D software services, bespoke software solutions and consultancy expertise to companies across the globe. REC Global works for quality-demanding industries including Automotive, Telematics & M2M, Energy, and Web, Although not always visible, electronic on electronics will only grow further. systems underpin many of the world’s The Government is committed to Mobile & Enterprise Applications. REC UK has been operational in the economic activities, from control systems supporting the UK industry which has the United Kingdom since 2009. for automobiles to sensor technologies opportunity to develop its strong position for assisted living, and our reliance to become a world leader. 2013 WAS A YEAR OF SIGNIFICANT To succeed we need to make the most of our DEVELOPMENTS IN ELECTRONICS. competitive advantages and sustain them. These include the launch of the ‘Electronic In collaboration with industry, we have Systems: Challenges and Opportunities’ published Industrial Strategies in eleven other report, published in June and the formation key areas, many of which provide growth of the Electronic Systems Council (ESCO). opportunities for electronics. These Strategies This forum of senior leaders from the sector, set out our long-term vision, providing the working in partnership with Government, will certainty and confidence that companies share experience, best practice and resources need to invest and grow. Tackling economic in order to address common issues. ESCO’s weakness and instability will lead to improved vision is to grow the UK electronics industry to opportunities, better jobs and economic £120 billion (up 55%) and create an additional prosperity for the UK. 150,000 highly-skilled jobs by 2020. A key aspect in our approach is a commitment This new partnership is a strong example of to invest in technologies. Based on the the Government’s drive to rebalance the recommendations of the science community, economy through providing a dynamic, research councils and the Technology Strategy open and competitive business environment. Board, we have prioritised eight great This has been demonstrated by the work of the technologies with the potential to propel Technology Strategy Board and the Regional the UK towards significant future growth. Growth Fund competitions. In addition, we These are: big data, space, robotics & have ring-fenced support for science, we are autonomous systems, synthetic biology, promoting exports – particularly in emerging regenerative medicine, agri-science, advanced markets – and we are creating one of the most materials and energy. These are considered competitive business tax regimes in the G8. important areas of scientific advance with www.rec-global.co.uk Phone: +44 7919050018 Email Contact: [email protected] NMI YEARBOOK 2014 05 Industry Summit November 2014, London A regular feature in the industry calendar, NMI’s Industry Summit brings leaders together to receive an Industry briefing and debate the issues with key figures shaping and influencing policy. See www.nmi.org.uk for details identifiable commercial opportunities, in which Britain has existing, distinctive capability. The Government is taking action to address WE ARE SERIOUS the specific challenges presented by the ESCO ABOUT STABILISING Report. As just one example regarding skills, we have been supporting Nesta, Mozilla and THE UK ECONOMY Nominet Trust’s joint initiative ‘Make Things Do Stuff’ (MTDS), which offers opportunities for Michael Fallon young people to develop their digital-making Business Minister skills. Having offered over 100,000 offline and online experiences, MTDS has enabled students to shift from being consumers of investment and growth. The electronics sector digital technologies, to making and building provides superb opportunities for the future, their own. and I look forward to working in partnership with ESCO and others in the sector to address We have shown that we are serious about the challenges to long term success identified stabilising the UK economy and encouraging in the ESCO Report. Silicon IP Design... High performance, reliable Analogue and Mixed-Signal IP is critical to the success of System on Chip (SoC) designs. Moortec’s highly experienced design team will help you reduce IC design • Analogue & Mixed-Signal IP • PVT Monitoring for Deep-Submicron SoCs (65nm/40nm/28nm) • Embedded Temperature Sensors • Low Jitter PLLs, Oscillators • Power Management ...for System on Chip You choose... Moortec - the perfect partner to provide high performance analogue / mixed-signal IP and support for your SoC and Digital ASIC designs tel +44 (0)1752 693800 mail [email protected] web www.moortec.com NMI YEARBOOK 2014 07 Stan Boland NMI Chairman CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT I’m delighted to introduce NMI’s Annual Review and to do so as Chairman for the first time. THE STAFF AT NMI, led by Derek Boyd, do begin to work with the team at NMI and attend an incredible job. NMI is providing support some of its events, including this year’s on a very broad range of highly valuable Summit, I’m really getting to understand the disciplines and it’s delivering that support value being delivered. across a wide range of our industry segments, providing the glue and networking to make it I’m joining the NMI Board at an incredibly truly effective for its members. For this to be exciting time. The Board has already shown achieved by a relatively small team is a tremendous foresight at the need to engage reflection not just of their clear commitment to more strongly with Government and build even provide the very best tools and frameworks for closer links to the specific systems domains our industry, but also of the catalytic power (meaning software as well as electronics): NMI is having through encouraging and two areas I believe are absolutely critical as promoting NMI members to engage with each we take the industry in the UK forward in a other for common purpose. Being a member post-crisis world. The team has made great at Icera, and now more recently at Neul, I’ve strides at that and the publication of the ESCO already had some experience of this but as I Report and formation of the ESCO Council, I’M JOINING THE NMI BOARD AT AN INCREDIBLY EXCITING TIME Stan Boland NMI Chairman 08 NMI YEARBOOK 2014 co-Chaired by Warren East and Michael Fallon • Helping to raise the profile of NMI and (Minister of State for Business, Innovation make sure its value is recognised and used & Skills), gives us a great platform upon which successfully for the benefit of its members. to build. I look forward to getting my teeth into these Being in the thick of building a venture-backed goals, working with my fellow Board members technology start-up like Neul whilst chairing and the NMI management team. NMI will have its upsides and one downside – time will be a constant challenge! Finally, I’d like to thank David Wollen who Nevertheless, I’m hoping to personally support preceded me as Chair.
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