Awards

ZipCharge, a pioneer in portable everyday electric vehicle (EV) charging, announces winning a prestigious British Engineering Excellence Award. The award for the R&D Project of the Year was given in recognition of ZipCharge’s exacting R&D programme and putting the game-changing portable EV charger through meticulous automotive industry car development processes and standard trials to ensure it is ready for market in early 2023.

Just two months after receiving the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, Ansible Motion has added another accolade in 2022, winning a British Engineering Excellence Award (BEEAs).

Digi-Key Electronics has been recognised by global interconnect supplier partner Harwin with the Global Performance of the Year award. Digi-key was chosen for its first-rate new product introduction (NPI) activity, the responsiveness of its team to customer demands and exceptional sales performance.

NEC Corporation has been awarded its second ribbon from the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), this time for complying with the requirements for TIP's OpenRAN RU Technical Requirements Document 2.0. This updated, comprehensive list of technical requirements for Open RAN is built on the valuable work from the operator signatories of the Open RAN MoU Group (European telecom operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone), and others.

Nexperia have announced an expansion to its award-winning portfolio of automotive ethernet ESD protection devices. The three new devices are AEC-Q101 qualified and OPEN Alliance IEEE 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 compliant ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) protection devices designed to protect two bus lines from damage caused by ESD and other transients.

The Danfoss DDP096 Digital Displacement pump has been named a winner of Agritechnica’s prestigious Systems & Components Trophy 2022. Presented by DLG, the German Agricultural Society, the award recognises the inventive spirit of industry suppliers and their importance to agricultural technology. The Digital Displacement pump triumphed as one of three winners from among 20 nominees.

Since 2012, E.D.&A. has had its own electronics production in Kalmthout (Belgium), where the company has automated thoroughly, so that quality, flexibility, costs and internal lead times have improved significantly. For this, E.D.&A. has been awarded Factory of the Future for the third time.

The GDUSA Annual Awards showcase the best in show of Marketing, Packaging and Graphic design from around the world. Despite these trying times we’ve witnessed great design and continual innovation in this field with strong drive to promote meaningful customer engagement and a call for inclusivity and wider social representation through packaging design.

Yamaha Motor Robotics’ quest to recognise the best customer-support engineers from its global distribution network resumed this year at the World SMT Engineer Grand Prix 2021.

JFD presented recently the 2022 finalists for the ‘Margaret Award’. Women and girls were invited to apply and share their experiences and innovations in digital technology. Among the finalists are the next winners who will be revealed on the 8th of March at a prestigious ceremony.