 Introduction
E! 4090 PRO-FACTORY is an umbrella in the European Research Initiative EUREKA.
A EUREKA umbrella basically aims at creating EUREKA R&D projects in a certain technological field. In the case of PRO-FACTORY the theme is the future development of production. The subject involves the integrated domain of technology (including advanced information technologies), management and organisation in order to respond to market needs as well as social and environmental concerns. Until now, more than 50 projects have been generated.
The new EUREKA umbrella PRO-FACTORY focuses on advanced manufacturing technology and replaces the highly successful
Experts and Partner Search Tool - How to find – how to be found Use our
This tool will allow you to present yourself to the community of production technologies, your expertise, your know-how and also your needs. This will allow the community, with the help of this tool, to find yourself and your organisation and to recognize you as valuable experts for a possible co-operation in the future, in R&D and/or in business cooperation. The better you will describe yourself, the more chance you will have to be found.
Furthermore, you will also have the opportunity to present cooperation ideas in this field and specify your needs for partners. Here, too, the better your needs are described, the higher are the chances for you to catch the attention of possible partners.
So, please, don't hesitate to fill in your form in this database. This service is free of any charge, neither now nor in the future. You are the sole responsible for the quality of the data you put in, but we decide if these information are valuable to be put on line or not.
This service is offered by the EUREKA Umbrella PRO-FACTORY Authorities.
Threats and opportunities for EU Manufacturing. Although highly successful in many important sectors, European manufacturing businesses will continue to suffer strong competition from countries such as India and China. To prosper in the long-term, European companies need to develop new business strategies which combine innovation, research and technology, a highly skilled workforce and their overall operational effectiveness in ways which competitors find hard to copy.
Production in Europe is expensive because of high labour and energy costs. Globalisation means that outsourcing becomes cost-effective. Despite this, Europe can compete successfully in the globalised markets. It has a large, sophisticated and increasing unified home market which creates demand for well-designed, high value-added innovative products. Investment in research and technology is rising, as is the level of business skills.
Objectives of PRO-FACTORY The PRO-FACTORY umbrella will help deliver the necessary technological expertise for Europe to create the next generation of advanced and innovative products and processes for global markets. The strategic aim of the PRO-FACTORY umbrella is to increase European manufacturing competitiveness by providing an application-oriented, bottom-up, collaborative R&D support mechanism primarily focused on "innovative production technologies" for "new added value products and related services".
In PRO-FACTORY a number of representatives from European governments of EUREKA member countries joined to promote trans-boundary efforts on technological research and development in the field of production.
The following countries are currently participating in PRO-FACTORY:
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