March 2021
Hotraco
Hotraco develops innovative automation systems that help users to get the best possible results for animals, crops and people. Hotraco offers regulation, control and monitoring solutions for four segments: Hotraco Agri, Hotraco Horti, Mooij Agro and HG Industrial. Hotraco Agri‘s core business is regulating, managing and monitoring in-stable processes for poultry and pig farming. This ranges from ventilation and climate [...]
Every customer is a CUSTOMER
Your success is also PIEK´s success. That is why the complete PIEK team is always at your beck and call when it comes to education. This is quite apparent from the evaluations that PIEK receives from its customers. Below you can find some quotes found in the evaluation forms and in the annual customer satisfaction survey: ‘Everything runs smoothly. The [...]
The future of Logistics
Logistics is booming. Because of the COVID-19 virus more and more products are bought online, which have to be delivered to private individuals and companies. Below we would like to share a number of developments with you which could be inspiring for your own organisation. Wal-Mart is a huge US retailer experimenting with autonomously driving cars built by Nuro. In [...]
Outsourcing: outdated
More and more organisations are finding that outsourcing is not a panacea to reduce costs. A few decades ago outsourcing was hot. Organisations looked at which operations they could cut from the core, so which activities they could contract out. They also made agreements about deliverables and the required quality levels. On paper this made these organisations more cost-effective, but [...]
February 2021
Fire-fighting
Time has not stood still in fire-fighting. We have been faced with many major fires in the last few years. There were forest fires in Sichuan province, China, there was the devastating fire in Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, and there were huge fires in California and Australia. Every day firefighters are risking their lives to save others. They can lose [...]
Awacs: Airborne Warning and Control System
Since the defence industry is a major partner for PIEK, regular visits are paid to the main players. One recent visit was to AWACS in Geilenkirchen. AWACS was established by NATO at the end of the 1970s to protect the European airspace against possible attacks from the then USSR. A German air force base was turned into the main AWACS [...]
Cyberattacks: indirect attack on economic growth?
The time of Bonnie and Clyde has long gone, when banks were robbed by people with guns. These days guns are no longer necessary. Today’s criminal has his laptop as a weapon and has enough technical knowledge to get around firewalls, etc. This may sound simplistic, but the fact is that the number of cyberattacks has significantly increased, since banks [...]
To the top with PIEK
Mount Everest is the Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Himalayas, Nepal.
January 2021
3D printing in health care: giving an arm and a leg to the underprivileged
All over the world, there are about 30 million people who have to go without various limbs as a result of a war, violence, accidents, etc. Only a small number of those people is fortunate enough to get a prosthetic limb, namely 6 million people. 3D printing could make a great difference here, as it would also allow the underprivileged [...]
Vista College and PIEK
The word ‘soldering’ stems from solidare (to attach, to interconnect) and it is the perfect metaphor for how a company active in soldering links up with the VISTA College active in educating young professionals. ‘In these trying Corona times we support the VISTA College,’ says PIEK’s Managing Director Ben Walls. With enough warmth the best connections are made. The Dutch [...]
December 2020
The Festive season in the Corona year
What a heavy year 2020 has been for all of us The Covid-19 virus has turned our lives upside down. Working and meeting online have become a new reality for many, and the distance this has led to between family, friends, colleagues and customers is unpleasant. Although the technical possibilities are not bad at all, online get-togethers can never replace [...]
5G is making the digital world a race track
It seems like yesterday when we first heard about 1G technology. And this was at the end of the 80s. As from 2010 we have had G4 technology, and now we are in the middle of 5G being rolled out all over the world, while there are already places where the first steps towards 6G are taken. In this article [...]
October 2020
Selection process of an IPC educator
At PIEK we only know too well how difficult it is for companies to make the right choice for an educational institute offering IPC certifications. The purchasing department looks at price, the staff on the shop floor that needs to be certified looks at the educator’s experience, and the manager looks at the overall picture, keeping in mind his responsibility [...]
September 2020
Outstanding course, outstanding trainer
PIEK has customers in all corners of the world. They either come to PIEK for courses or PIEK goes to them for in-company courses. Over the years we were happy to host a delegation from Israel, and we asked them whether we could interview them. We found out that being active in the electronics interconnection industry in Israel means that [...]
IPC Designer + Expert Certification
All across the world IPC has selected and certified a limited number of persons as MIT- Design+ Expert to become mentors for new IPC Designer certification trainers. PIEK’s Managing Director Rob Walls is one of them. He is also Master IPC trainer for the IPC Designer certification, such as Certified Interconnect Designer-basic (CID) and Certified Interconnect Designer-Advanced (CID+). Rob Walls [...]
August 2020
The PIEK quality circle
The electronic interconnect industry is continually innovating, and innovations obviously have a big impact on product quality. Newly created products make the lives of consumers safer, better and more pleasant, regardless of whether they are health-care products, in which technology, ICT and knowledge are married, or mobility products, in which technology, ICT and artificial intelligence are married. In order to [...]
