Crowcon Highly Commended At Innovation And Design Excellence Awards
Gas detection specialist Crowcon Detection Instruments was highly commended at this year’s Innovation Design and Excellence Awards, held recently at London’s Hilton Hotel on Park Lane.
The Oxfordshire-based company was highly commended in the ‘Design Cycle Time Reduction’ award, just missing out on the top prize. The judges recognised Crowcon’s expertise in integrating raw sensing technology into a piece of processing equipment and producing a clear, easy-to-use interface, underpinned by an electronics platform called i-Module.
Crowcon’s Technical Director Stefan Kukula commented, “Making a product as a platform means an initially longer development time, but follow-on products have shorter lead times. The i-Module platform has helped us bring new product variants to market quickly, while the flexible nature of the architecture allows significant changes to be introduced with relatively little design input.”
Crowcon was also shortlisted for the ‘Business to Business’ category for winning major supply contracts with British Gas, Southern Water and other major utility companies.
Now in their third year, the Innovation Design and Excellence Awards recognise and reward the key role played by mechanical and electronic design engineers in the creation of new and successful products. The awards are organised by Eureka and New Electronics magazines (part of Findlay Publications) and Cranfield School of Management.
All the shortlisted companies were honoured at an awards luncheon held at the Hilton Hotel Park Lane in London in conjunction with the Best Factory Awards (BFA). The event was hosted by writer and broadcaster Frances Edmonds, with Jonathan Kestenbaum, chief executive of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), as the IDEA keynote speaker.
