EDITOR’S COMMENT
SGHOO OWN WITH THE
AS WE EMERGE from the relative lull of
summer, the frequency of events and
exhibitions starts to ramp up and in
the time it takes to say ‘back to school’,
one’s diary goes from being sparsely
populated to jam-packed.
One of the most common features
of these busy periods is the trade show.
Before the leaves even start to turn,
reminders about these key events start to
arrive with increasing frequency in one’s
inbox.
It would be easy to be cynical about
such events. There can be times when the
last thing one feels like doing is taking a
day away from one’s desk to make oneself
footsore walking around an exhibition hall.
But the fact is that such events work.
If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be so many
of them since they simply wouldn’t be
sustainable. And they work for a relatively
obvious reason: face-to-face contact
and the ability to discuss one’s technical
needs with a range of other engineers (and
in turn have them explain their products
and services) is something it’s almost
impossible to replicate in any other context.
Of course, Eureka! is associated with a
number of exhibitions – indeed, this edition
of the magazine previews both FAST/EM
LIVE and the Engineering Design Show
2019. and both are excellent examples of
what such events can o er to engineers. But
this is not a plug for these events so much as
it is an endorsement of the format itself and
an assertion of its continued value.
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Innovation thrives on collaboration and
can all too easily wither away in isolation.
In busy working days, it is all too easy to
decide against ‘losing a day’ by attending
such events, but it is something every
design engineer needs to do if they want
to make sure their designs are informed by
the latest technology and thinking.
Paul Fanning, Editor
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