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<br /> NMI YEARBOOK 2016<br /> <br /> CONTENTS<br /> Contact:<br /> Head office,<br /> Suite 47, Geddes House, Kirkton North<br /> Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6GU<br /> T: +44 (0)1506 401210<br /> E: info@nmi.org.uk<br /> W: www.nmi.org.uk<br /> Regional office: Chippenham<br /> See website for full contact details.<br /> © 2016 NMI. All rights reserved.<br /> No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form<br /> (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic<br /> means whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use<br /> of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright<br /> owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,<br /> Designs & Patents Act 1988.<br /> Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the<br /> information and advertisements contained within this publication,<br /> neither NMI nor the publisher can accept any liability for errors<br /> or<a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=1"> NMI YEARBOOK 2016</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=2"> </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=3"> CONTENTS Contact: Head office, Suite 47</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=4"> </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=5"> Baroness Neville-Rolfe of Chilmark Business Minis</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=6"> Stan Boland NMI Chairman CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=7"> interested entities. We’ll then attempt to attrac</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=8"> Derek Boyd Chief Executive CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S ST</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=9"> “NMI’S BOARD HAS BEEN WORKING TO DEVELOP A FUTURE</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=10"> ANNUAL REVIEW OVERVIEW NMI is the champion for </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=11"> ANNUAL REVIEW CONNECTED COMMUNITIES Innovati</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=12"> GLOBAL STEPPER & SCANNER PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS N</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=13"> ANNUAL REVIEW a series of interactive workshop</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=14"> ANNUAL REVIEW UKTI’s Trade Challenge Partnersh</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=15"> ANNUAL REVIEW Technology Scotland In those ar</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=16"> </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=17"> ANNUAL REVIEW ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING EXC</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=18"> ANNUAL REVIEW Manufacturing </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=19"> ANNUAL REVIEW Design excellence and industrial</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=20"> Celebrating 30 years and still growing! Semefab </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=21"> ANNUAL REVIEW INDUSTRY COHESION & LEADERSHIP </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=22"> ANNUAL REVIEW Research and development Whethe</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=23"> ANNUAL REVIEW another near</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=24"> POWER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH @ WARWICK The Univers</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=25"> ANNUAL REVIEW FUTURE SKILLS Without a suitab</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=26"> ANNUAL REVIEW “thank you” to Neil Dickins, CEO</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=27"> ANNUAL REVIEW “…WORK WITH Amongst the</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=28"> Imagination powers many of the world's most iconi</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=29"> ANNUAL REVIEW INFLUENCE To communicate the n</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=30"> ANNUAL REVIEW BUSINESS GROWTH & INVESTMENT U</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=31"> ANNUAL REVIEW BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER & CELE</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=32"> ANNUAL REVIEW CONCLUSION Each year, the Annu</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=33"> RoodMicrotec Contact: Reinhard Pusch Telephone Nu</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=34"> ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2015 NMI Awards 2015 THE Y</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=35"> THE INNOVATION AWARD L-R: Derek B</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=36"> NMI Awards 2015 THE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GROUP </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=37"> THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=38"> The Experts behind the mask. NMI Industry Awards:</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=39"> Dr. Will Drury Ricardo THE MORE ELECTRIC POWERT</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=40"> plug-in electric vehicles growing from 14,532 in </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=41"> Electrical loads External power receptacles </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=42"> “THE ADVANCEMENT IN POWER ELECTRONICS IS A KEY EN</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=43"> CONCLUSION There are many technologies being dev</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=44"> Precision Parts Cleaning and Advanced Thermal Coa</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=45"> Doug Amos NMI FPGA Network Director THE 2015 NM</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=46"> For which of the following application areas does</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=47"> ASIC PROTOTYPERS STILL RELY ON FPGA Another impo</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=48"> survey showed that at least one of those techniqu</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=49"> Alastair McGibbon VP of Industry Technology Strat</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=50"> Leading supplier of Bare Board PCB Test Solutions</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=51"> “CREDIBLE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY WORK INVOLVES KEY I</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=52"> national or European, as a faceless initiative th</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=53"> “For an SME, funding is a difficult balance betwe</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=54"> Nor-Cal Products, Inc. In Europe 1967 So</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=55"> Peter Connock Board Chairman, memsstar Limited St</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=56"> NMI will play an important role in communicating </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=57"> Professor John Haine Royal Academy of Engineering</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=58"> </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=59"> They illustrate that security will have to be a m</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=60"> • With an on-going programme designed to ide</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=61"> complexity and cost in what is supposed to be a v</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=62"> Oclaro, Inc. is one of the world’s largest suppli</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=63"> NMI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stan Bola</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=64"> The Automotive Electronic Systems Innovation Netw</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 65" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=65"> NMI MEMBERS DIRECTORY 3M Cain Road, Brackn</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 66" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=66"> Anvil Semiconductor Windmill Industrial Estate, B</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 67" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=67"> Boston Semi Equipment Waterside, Frog Lane, Maple</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 68" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=68"> Cirrus Logic Westfield House, 26 Westfield Road, </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 69" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=69"> Deposition Technology Britton House, 10 Fore Stre</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 70" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=70"> Ensilica West Forest Gate, Wellington Road, Wokin</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 71" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=71"> Fluidic 4/8 Lochend Street, Motherwell ML1 1RX, U</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 72" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=72"> ICP Search 1 Jubilee Street, Brighton, East Susse</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 73" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=73"> IXYS Westcode Langley Park Way, Langley Park, Chi</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 74" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=74"> Maser Engineering CUK Branch Office, Redcroft Ass</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 75" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=75"> National Physical Laboratory Hampton Road, Teddin</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 76" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=76"> Photronics Bridgend Science Park, 1 Technology Dr</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 77" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=77"> Reliability Consultancy 9 Alder Close, Romsey, Ha</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 78" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=78"> Science & Technology Facilities Council Chilton, </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 79" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=79"> SMART Group c/o 77 Mill Road, Husborne Crawley, B</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 80" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=80"> Thales UK Worton Drive, Worton Grange Business Pa</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 81" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=81"> University of Strathclyde 204 George Street, 204 </a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 82" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=82"> ADVERTISER’S INDEX ams AG ..................</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 83" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=83"> Wear Sense Mov</a> <a title="nmi Yearbook 2016 page 84" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/59395aa7?page=84"> Find high-quality electronic engineering gra</a>