EuroWire May 2020

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New appointments at R&M

▲ ▲ Daniel Zhang

▲ ▲ Grigoris Panagos

▲ ▲ Kim Ciesla

telecom business. During his career he has worked on various projects in the information and communications market, such as FttA for 4G mobile networks and LAN connectivity for public and private networks, providing expertise and knowledge in the fields of sales and marketing. He holds a bachelor’s degree of electronics engineering from the Technical University of Lamia, and an MBA with focus on telecoms from the Athens University of Economics and Business. Mr Ciesla, based in Denmark, also has many years of experience in the connectivity business, working for several different companies – most recently, Prysmian. During his career he has worked in various sales roles in the industry. Reichle & De-Massari AG www.rdm.com

active in the Chinese data centre industry for more than 20 years, with specific expertise in power, cooling, enclosures and cabling. He has held different positions over the years, including product manager, operations director, country manager and business development manager. vice president APAC at R&M, commented, “China is the second largest market for structural cabling in the world and the DC market will be extremely dynamic in the next years. Daniel Zhang, together with a highly motivated team, will establish R&M among the top players in the market.” R&M has also increased its sales presence in Europe, with the appointment of two new sales managers – Grigoris Panagos for Greece, and Kim Ciesla for the Nordics. Mr Panagos has over 16 years of experience in the connectivity and Laurent Amestoy, executive

Swiss cabling specialist Reichle & De-Massari (R&M) has appointed a new general manager for China. Daniel Zhang will succeed Sam Ho, who has directed the R&M business in the Chinese market over the last 11 years. R&M is expanding its market presence in China. The acquisition of Durack Intelligent Electric Co Ltd, a manufacturer of enclosures for modular data centres for customers in the financial, governmental, educational and co-location data centre sectors, at the beginning of 2019 was a first step that enabled the company to offer complete solutions for the growing data centre market. R&M is also setting up a fibre optic and copper assembly factory, to be operational in the second quarter of 2020. Mr Zhang joined R&M as general manager for China with the task of integrating the two businesses and to drive further growth. He has been

Online competition to detect and classify defects in steel

Severstal allocated $120,000 of funds in prizes for competitors, including a $20,000 prize for efficiency. Participants who finished in the top 50 on the Kaggle private leaderboard were allowed to submit their inference code via docker containers to Severstal for consideration for the efficiency prize. Severstal hopes that the competition will find a solution to make identifying defects in the steel production process more efficient. Successful competitors will help maintain high manufacturing standards for steel and enable Severstal to continue its innovation. PAO Severstal www.severstal.com

PAO Severstal, a steel and steel-related mining company, has held a public online competition to help engineers improve its algorithms for detecting defects in steel. Through Kaggle, an online platform for data scientists and machine learners, Severstal opened the competition to entrants from all over the world. The production process of flat sheet steel is delicate: from heating and rolling to drying and cutting, several machines touch flat steel by the time it is ready to ship. Severstal currently uses images taken by high-frequency cameras to power a defect-detection algorithm. In the competition, applicants helped engineers improve the algorithm by localising and classifying surface defects on a steel sheet.

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