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15-01-2018

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A New Year, a renewed Mechanical Group at ASTRON R&D department

Submitter:	Johan Pragt
Description:	The Mechanical Group is partially renewed and back on full strength now. The group consists of two different disciplines: Mechanical R&D and Prototyping Group ('Instrumentmakerij'). They are complementary to each other and working great together. In the picture you see from the left to the right: Jorrit Siebenga, 'instrumentmaker' with experience at some companies and educated at the well known LIS (Leidse Instrument Makers School, the best MBO of the Netherlands). Jeroen Herrewijnen, more than ten years of experience in mass production at Philips and also several years of experience in machine building, design and analysis at several companies. Sjouke Kuindersma, our experienced 'instrumentmaker' with about eighteen years of experience at ASTRON in all required techniques. Sjouke also has a background at the LIS. Paula Fusiara, a few years now at ASTRON and full of ambition for new developments and techniques for the next steps in Mechanical Design. Johan Pragt, leading the Mechanical Group since 2000 and looking forward to the future of new developments in Mechanical R&D and production of prototypes with this new group. As Mechanical Group we cover a broad spectrum of Mechanics: From Research and Development up to realization of prototyping and production tooling. Keywords: Brainstorm, Mass production, Antennas, Analysis, Electronics, Low cost, plastic-metal combinations, 3D printing, HPC thermal design, CNC milling, vacuum, cryogenic, and more... We cover the Electro Magnetic wavelength range from meters to microns. What happened with our former colleagues of the Mechanical Group? Marco Drost is promoted to the Radio Observatory. Raymond van den Brink is now working at Tricas in Zwolle as project manager and developer. Hiddo Hanenburg and Jan Idserda both retired recently.
Copyright:	Johan Pragt / Annemieke Janssen


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