Martin Kidman is Safety Manager for Southern & Western Europe, at SICK.

But, he's much more than mr. safety, he has a great sense of humour and an infectious outlook on life. From humble beginnings in Liverpool, wanting to become a musical superstar, Martin became a compliance engineer in 1999 and then a research associate at the University of Liverpool, writing a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Chromatic Monitoring of Sulphurhexaflouride using Mass Spectrometry”.

Alongside his role at SICK, Martin is a member of the standards committee at the BSI, council member at BARA and a certified safety trainer at SGS-TÜV Saar.

Come and meet Engineers Insight: MENE 2024, Vertu Motors Arena, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 28th November - https://forms.reg.buzz/mene-2024/?affiliate=04bd0a6ef7ccbc924ecd93ecc71ff1283f4b3eaf9486ce654a71bfea8557820a

Martin Kidman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kidman/

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Huge thank you to this episode's sponsor - InterAct: https://interact-hub.org/

InterAct is a Made Smarter Innovation and ESRC funded network that provides free, people-centric insights to support manufacturing businesses interested in innovating with digital technology.

Alan Norbury is the Chief Technologist at Siemens Digital Industries. He's worked at Siemens since he was an apprentice, some 47 years ago. He's held 11 positions over the years, and in them gained invaluable experience. I was extremely lucky to spend an hour with him at the 2024 EMCON show, in Sunderland, UK. As you can hear, we filmed this one in front of an audience at an exhibition, hence the background noise!

What's Engineers Insight?

Engineers Insight is a free mobile app, built for engineers in the UK & Ireland, that collates the latest products, manuals, brochures, videos, send enquiries, apply for jobs and build out product inventories for your machine. We’re already working with Siemens, KUKA, SMC, Cognex, Omron, Beckhoff, and 40 more global brands to get their products to market. In the new year we’ll be launching a central training calendar, where an engineer could buy seats on multi-vendors courses, in one place.

To download, search "Engineer Insight" in the app stores and download for free.

Connect with us:

Alan Norbury - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alannorbury/

Thomas Flude - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-flude-engineersinsight/

Huge thank you to our sponsor Beckhoff Automation! To find out what they do you can click here - https://www.beckhoff.co.uk/?mtm_campaign=Engineers%20Insight&mtm_kwd=podcast%20link

This is the most open, personal and emotional episode we've filmed to date. Ariel let's us in to her life, how she's dealt with trauma, recreated a version of herself and has used her love of writing to become a published author.

To purchase Ariel's book, you can find it here on WHSmith: https://www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Ariel-Marie/Now-Never-or-at-the-very-last-second/13143430

Ariel Wynne - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariel-wynn-42890a19b/

Tom Flude - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-flude-engineersinsight/