Webinars

PI DX Spotlight: The Secret Sauce to Open Source

As solar-electric vehicle manufacturer Lightyear approaches series production, digital plumber Rob Ferrone will compere as Willem van den Corput reflects on Lightyear’s product development journey so far, and Bas van Goch on the enterprise architecture and data culture underpinning it. Focusing on the challenge of ensuring systems are both ‘right sized’ for now and scalable for the future, Sam Fletcher will explore how the integration of rapidly deployable and comparably inexpensive open-source tools to an off-the-shelf backbone can prove attractive. Both Lightyear’s QRonos BTRS integration and the creation and deployment of an MRP tool for a medical device consortium with be referenced.

May 7, 2021

QR_ Women's Mentorship Scheme

We are very excited to announce the launch of the QR Women’s Mentorship Scheme and are keen to hear from others who are on a similar journey. As part of the effort to combat gender disparity in the engineering industry, the QRWMS team would love to share our knowledge and experience in developing gender equality initiatives in the product development world and hear your own stories too. If you are a company in the engineering industry and have recently launched a new ED&I initiative, what lessons did you learn? How have you guaranteed success? How has data shaped your approach?

May 4, 2021

Early access registration for QR_ Quality Reads

Umbrellaed as ‘Quality Reads’, these topics probably won’t be new to our followers, and we’re certainly not seeking to write definitive engineering or business papers, but they may provide some context for non-domain specialists or prompt a previously unexplored train of thought in those closer to the subject matter.

April 27, 2021

PI DX Spotlight: Lost legacy Treasures and the modernisation of legacy systems

Salomon digital adventurer Jonathan Théry and QR_ pioneer Rob Ferrone (he/him/his) team up to boldly search for an answer to the unsolved mysteries of legacy #data. In this light-hearted review of legacy system challenges, Jonathan and Rob will take attendees on a journey of discovery, referencing sporting equipment and automotive examples as they introduce some of the tools and strategies required to make it out alive with legacy systems’ treasure.

April 12, 2021

Webinar: Optimising compliance in time-critical transformations

Wanting to exploit data to unleash your development and manufacturing potential, but concerned about implications for compliance? QR_'s Dr. Heike Siegler will join Philipp Reusch and Daniel Wuhrmann for Reusch Rechtsanwälte's first cross-industry, digital business brunch. Using the real-world example of VentilatorChallengeUK's time-critical design changes, re-certification and production ramp, the panel will explore how step-changes in development and production efficiency can be achieved while meeting technical compliance challenges.

Oct. 2, 2020

QR_ 'Insightinar' #2: Reaction Engines implementing and securing buy-in for a BTRS tool

Real-world case study: closer integration of procurement and engineering to enhance programme performance. This 25-min whirlwind case study will provide insights into how closer integration of the procurement and engineering worlds can be achieved without heavy, expensive systems, while also providing a catalyst for enhanced business practices and processes.

Sept. 7, 2020

Webinar: Helping suppliers to integrate with Ford in the V71x programme

Both Full Service Suppliers and Build to Print suppliers require high levels of accuracy to keep up with Ford's expectations. In this webinar we will cover all aspects of the supplier-OEM interaction, including timing, systems, processes and best practices to maximise success in this new strategic global programme.

Aug. 28, 2020

QR_ 'Insightinar' #1: rapid application development and extreme manufacturing challenges

How the engineering and production methodologies conceived, developed and refined in almost real-time during the VCUK ventilator scale-up challenge can be applied to challenger organisations seeking to reach prototype gateways more quickly and more efficiently, production-bound IP holders struggling to realise their market-share potential, and larger organisations looking beyond the usual to ensure competitive advantage in a post-Covid world.

July 27, 2020