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Immediately become more innovative and enjoy your work more.

The high tech industry is exciting and dynamic. But if you get the feeling that you are always one step behind the facts, that your work is never finished and you still take your stress from work home, then it’s high time to change the way you work. Frank Rood, as an experienced system architect and technical manager, knows exactly which obstacles you can come up against and how to overcome them. He also draws richly from his own experience. ‘I have learned how to deal with every single pitfall that exist.’

Read the entire interview with lecturer Frank Rood:Working innovatively and enjoyably: the toolkit

Frank (1968) is a trainer, coach and change manager with an impressive 23 years of experience in product development in the high-tech mechatronic industry.
Frank started his career as developer of mechatronic systems giving him good understanding of the challenges and dynamics of product development. Striving for faster progress, more results and improved effectiveness he took the lead as project manager, manager and director R&D. Always challenging himself and his teams, leading and managing projects to push for fast results with care for people and long term consequences.

Frank Rood is trainer of the Time management for innovation course, which takes place 3 – 4 times a year. 

In September High Tech Institute hosts the monthly 040coders.nl event for programmers.

Are you a programmer who is close to the hardware and physics? Are you coding in languages like C and C#? Working with dedicated operating systems? Do you wake up at night worrying about memory or performance constraints?

Learn about model-driven, multicore programming, software security, automotive functional safety, or how to make the link to the cloud. Discuss with your peers how to deal with millions of lines of code crafted over many years, and stay ahead with the latest developments.

This event is meant for programmers only. No recruiters or other tie-wearing people.

Information and programme:

• Thursday 20 September 2018 – 5 PM – 9 PM;
• BCN Eindhoven, Kennedyplein 204 (next to Eindhoven’s main train station);
• first an ‘Uncle Bob’ video on clean coding;
• food and drinks courtesy of the host of the evening;
• then two interesting, (embedded) software development-related talks: by coders for coders;
• Language is English;
• Participation is free, but you have to sign up through Meetup.

Holland Expat Center South organises an Expat Workshop Evening on the 20st of September 2018 in Eindhoven.

In order to assist expats upon arrival and during their first months in the Netherlands, a distinctive collaboration has been set up between Holland Expat Center South and private service providers. High Tech Institute is their service provider when it comes to education.

If you’re new to Holland, a lot of things may be different from what you’re used to in the workplace. For example, Dutch colleagues expect you to always say what you think – even if it means contradicting your boss. And you can expect them to comment on your work, too. Dutch jobs come with a lot of freedom – and a lot of responsibility, right from the start. What’s the best way to handle that? And all those seemingly endless meetings – how do you ever get things done? How do you move decisions in the right direction, when it’s unclear who’s in charge of making them?

At the evening event, you will get to participate in a mini version of the workshop How to successfully perform in the Dutch high tech work culture. This workshop will be presented by ir. Jaco Friedrich.

When: Thursday 20 September, starting at 6 PM

Where: The Student Hotel Eindhoven (Stationsweg 1)

This hotel is located next to the Eindhoven Train Station. 

There is no charge to attend, but registration is required.

High Tech Institute is the supporting partner of the in-depth Dutch System Architecting Conference Techwatch organizes in close collaboration with Incose.

We would like to draw your attention to the event and hopefully we will meet you at the Verkadefabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch on 14 June.

Conference programme
At the conference you learn about the latest trends in system architecting. It promises to be an inspiring day with a keynote presentation of Henrik Balslev (Systems Engineering). The programme also features presentations of 2ndsense and Airport Creators, Vanderlande, Secure Coding Academy, Prorail, Philips CDP2, The Collective, TNO-ESI and Hotraco/High Tech Institute.

Discount via High Tech Institute
Are you about to attend a HTI training, or have you been a HTI participant in the past? If so, we can offer you an interesting discount on the entrance fee. If you register with a discount code and you can get your ticket for € 200 instead of € 275 excl. VAT. Registration is possible until 12 June via sysarch.nl/visit. Please contact by e-mail us (training@hightechinstitute.nl) to receive the discount code.

An entrance ticket includes admission to the presentations, lunch, drinks, Verkade chocolates and dinner at the end of the day.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you need more information.

We are looking forward to meet you at the Verkadefabriek on 14 June!

On 24 – 28 September 2018 our popular course ‘System architect(ing)’ will take place in Delft, the Netherlands.

We have noticed that several companies in the province South Holland are interested to let there employees attend our ‘System architect(ing)’.
Travelling to Eindhoven is a time-consuming activity.

Therefore, we decided to organise a course for open enrollment in Delft, a city between The Hague and Rotterdam.

The 5-day course gives an overview of the play field of the system architect. It provides insight in the broad variety of viewpoints the architect needs to take care of. The course contains many short exercises, worked out in small groups, that help to experience the broadness of the field. The addressed subjects help to understand the influence of the organisation structure, the importance of focusing not only on technical aspects but also on business, process and human aspects and how to cover multidisciplinary aspects.

Sign up for the course here.

We are grateful to have received participants from all over the world for our course ‘Electromagnetic compatibility – design techniques’.

On the 9th of April we started this 5-days course with a varied group:

• 2 participants from Saudi Arabia;
• 2 participants from Slovenia;
• 1 participant from Romania;
• 1 participant from Germany;
• 1 participant from Belgium;
• 4 participants from the Netherlands;

Our team of lecturers taught about electromagnetic emission and susceptibility in products and systems: problems, analysis methods, measures. The issues addressed evolved and now cover a larger frequency range from DC up to the 6 GHz level discussing new problems and matching solutions.

All 11 participants filled out our evaluation form. We are delighted to announce that the average overall score is 8.9 out of 10! The lecturers were also assessed with an average score of 8.9 out of 10. Congratulations to you all!

Some of the quotes participants wrote down:
– ‘The training was well balanced and the contents were well prepared’.
– ‘I have learned a lot on theory and examples for EMC’.
– ‘Everything was beneficial’.
– ‘Very helpful in gaining more insight about EMC design and development techniques’.
– ‘I like the hands-on approach’.

On 17 May we are present at the Dutch Machine Vision Conference 2018.

Learn about the latest trends in machine vision, such as deep learning, embedded vision, pattern recognition, low-cost vision and 3D vision. And get inspired by high-end vision applications in production and agro.

This completely new conference focusses on trends in machine vision technology and offers a strong programme of presentations on various subjects. The target audience consists of developers of vision systems, product managers of machines that rely on vision technology, technical management involved in vision system projects, engineers from various areas that have to work closely together with machine vision experts, decision makers in high tech, suppliers of high tech vision modules of vision software and services.

Off course we would be happy to answer your questions regarding our courses, especially ‘Machine vision in mechatronics systems’ and ‘Practical machine learning’.

As a sponsor of this conference, we can provide a discount code. By using this code, the entrance ticket will only cost you € 200,- instead of € 275 or € 350 excl. VAT. Please ask for this code per e-mail: training@hightechinstitute.nl

Mark your calendar and join us at the Dutch Machine Vision Conference 2018.

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The hands-on course ‘Advanced feedforward control’ focusses on techniques to improve the performance of motion systems by advanced feedforward and learning control.

Our latest edition in March 2018 (fully booked) organised by dr. ir. Tom Oomen, with additional lecturers from Academia, including prof. dr. ir. Maarten Steinbuch, ir. Lennart Blanken, and ir. Robin de Rozario, as well as lecturers from industry, including dr. ir. Joost Bolder (ASML) and dr. ir. Sjirk Koekebakker (Océ), was a great success. With twelve participants from eight renowned companies from all over the world US 4x, Israel 2x, Germany 1x, Czech Republic 1x and The Netherlands 4x this edition had an overall score of 9/10. The majority of the participants were from industry, with a large range in variation of work experience, and one participant from academia.  For the first time the training duration was extended to three days, which provided time for additional topics and more time for hands-on experiments.

Already on day one, all participants managed to design a frequency domain Iterative Learning Control (ILC) algorithm and implement this successfully on a desktop printer. All participants also tried to tune a standard feedforward tuning, but even for the best tuned results, the ILC drastically outperformed the traditional approaches. The second day, the learning controller is adapted to a basic repetitive controller, enabling continuous operation of the printer setup.

The second half of the course contained several diverse topics, with speakers from both academia and industry. On the one hand, lifted ILC, which is more mathematically and academically oriented is investigated. On the other hand, the algorithms are tailored towards automated feedforward tuning, enabling the automatic tuning of complex feedforward filters, including input shapers. This topic is highly relevant for industrial applications with varying tasks, and attracted considerable interest from the participants. Furthermore, very recent, even unpublished research has been presented to avoid modelling steps in learning algorithms. All of these algorithms have been implemented  successfully by the participants as well on the desktop printer setup. Finally, the course has been concluded by a presentation from an industrial expert on learning control in printing.

A few comments of the participants given at the end of the training are:

• “Great lecturers and great content!”

• “Very well prepared and lectured. Balanced mix of theory and applications.”

• “Excellent course, delivered enthusiastically and strikes the right balance between theory and experiments! Congrats!”

• “Excellent training! I enjoyed it very much and I’m looking forward to implementing some of the concepts learnt from this training!”

•  “Very practical and useful, the explanation is easy to understand”

Interested in this course? Read the entire description of our ‘Advanced feedforward control’ training here and register in time since a limited number of seats are available!

Want to know more about machine learning and deep learning?
Our new 5-day course ‘Practical machine learning’ is intended for engineers from R&D, practitioners and teachers interested in machine learning and deep learning. The course is suitable both for those who are new to machine learning and who are already familiar. The first group can concentrate on the basic concepts and learn to apply these in projects. The last group can improve their skills to design accurate and robust systems.

Our first edition will take place in Eindhoven, on 14 – 18 May 2018

After attending this course, the participant:

• has a solid and state-of-the-art knowledge on machine learning and its applications;
• knows how to make a good labeled set;
• knows how to train and assess a classifier;
• knows to develop an efficient classifier;
• knows how to extract a useful data set from a raw data set,
• knows how to use the perClass software;
• knows the basics of deep learning and when to use it;
• knows how to build a robust Machine Learning system suitable to solve real-world industrial projects on a step-by-step approach;
• knows how to avoid common pitfalls;

Are you interested? Read the entire course decription here.