ensto today | FROM THE CEO Appreciate the diversity 4 Patrick Stycz For the ones familiar with the field of electricity, the law of Ampère, established by the French scientist André- Marie Ampère, or its derivative, the law of Biot and Savart, created by French physicists Jean Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart, are needed to determine the magnetic field and its forces created by an electric current. To a large extent they form the basis for Maxwell's equations – i.e. the laws of electricity. The scientific work has been continued, and one of the concrete results is the large presence of companies special-ised in electric products on the French territory. Ensto is one of these corporations with four factories and a sub-stantial R&D organization both for building technology and network automation solutions. Whilst the French soil is apparently very fertile for electrical solutions, then com-bining know-how and experience of also other countries can serve as a catalyst for getting improved processes and faster implementation of quality assurance and lean manu-facturing and lean research and development. Ideally these processes are combined into elegant solutions, as is the custom in France, both in science and in the kitchen. So there’s nothing that prevents you from enjoying your foie gras, oysters, lobsters or any other delightful creations of the French cuisine whilst working in the electrical industry. Timo Luukkainen CEO and President, Ensto Group Most of us know France as a fantastic place to visit - as a place for all seasons and all rea-sons. With the first impression one already starts to admire its terrific food, geograp-hical diversity, high fashion, elegant cities, design and the cultural richness of history, art and museums. Paris looks like Paris because of its city plan and architecture, but you find that the diversity goes quite far in smaller cities and rural areas. You detect it in how people live, practice sports, the dialect they speak, not forgetting agriculture and dif-ferent industrial and educational traditions. One thing which is, however, to be underlined, is the high standard of natural sciences and engineering. Whilst these can be for a tourist less exciting than food, wine, opera and fashion, many of us have a strong respect for scientific and technical breakthroughs starting, for example, with Gustave Eiffel’s and Pierre and Marie Curie’s achievements. Some people know by experience that France had a very advanced communication system years prior to the internet. This Minitel system was not, alas, adopted by other countries and hence was phased out as the internet became the global vehicle for communication at a later stage. The French high speed train, the TGV, is still a remarkably comfortable way to travel even medium-long distances and, for many people, is a preferred option to taking a flight. Also, largely thanks to the French input to the Concorde project, one of the most revolutionary air-planes was taking passengers to the world’s metropolises at speeds earlier possible only for military planes. These examples are of course far from being coincidences; they are results of the elegant application of natural sciences and engineering.
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