Tooling Industry & Joint Technology Initiative (JTI)
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The formalization of the European Tooling Platform within MANUFUTURE allow the European Tooling Industry to have a formal representation in the MANUFUTURE High Level Group, participating in its main strategic decisions.
Since the focus is on the Industry needs, the European Tooling Platform promotes an integrated and intelligent system to monitor policies and competitive issues and propose future actions to be taken at the different levels (local, regional, national and European) to reinforce the competitiveness of the whole European Industry.
A set of initiatives are being promoted by MANUFUTURE, namely a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) in production technologies, in the scope of the “Factories of the Future” Initiative.
Considering the formalization of the European Tooling Platform as a MANUFUTURE sub-Platform, the participation of the Tooling Industry (as a horizontal enabler) in this JTI can be foreseen, in line with its Technological Road Map defined for the MANUFUTURE. Within this context, the European Tooling Platform will propose to actively participate in the JTI development process, namely indicating relevant topics to address complementary research at a global level, for the next years.
The Management of the European Tooling Platform will coordinate this work with the MANUFUTURE Technology Platform, to maintain the integrative consistency with the global policy of MANUFUTURE.
Tooling Industry Road Maps
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During the last years, the MANUFUTURE Technology Platform has promoted a long discussion with European industrial companies to identify their needs and, accordingly, be the source of inputs to the development of new instruments for the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union.
The main conclusions achieved and the strategic guidelines proposed to support European Policies for the future of the European Manufacture were published in a book launched during the International MANUFUTURE Conference – 2008, at Saint-Étienne, France.
“THE MANUFUTURE ROAD – Towards Competitive and Sustainable High-adding-Value Manufacturing”, by F. Jovane, E. Westkämper and D. Williams, edited by Springer, 2008.
ISBN 978-3-540-77011-4
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Another main result of the work performed over the last years is the reinforcement of SME oriented innovation as a fundamental issue to accomplish a robust European programme for R&D.
The European Tooling Industry has been playing a very important role for the consolidation of the achievements of MANUFUTURE, through a continuous work performed in close articulation between ISTMA Europe, EuroTooling 21 and Fórum Manufuture Portugal. As a result of this work, two major results can be identified:
• The European Commission recognized the quality and relevance of the work and defined a specific and dedicated Tooling industry topic (NMP-2009-4.4.0-3: Innovative and knowledge-based Tooling Industry) under the FP7 Calls for Projects;
• EuroTooling 21 consortium published a book presenting the main results from the discussions with the Tooling Industry in Europe promoted during the last four years. The book focuses on the Business Models and Road Maps for Tooling research (“New Business Models for the Tooling Industry”, Elsa Henriques, Centimfe, 2008).
ISBN 978-989-95964-1-2
European Tooling Industry
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The Tooling Industry (moulds, dies and special tools) in Europe represents an average annual turnover of 13 billion USD and comprises more than 7.000 companies, being 95% of them SMEs, representing a high added value workforce (more than 100 000 workers directly in the sector) with a remarkable know-how in design and manufacturing processes.
The Tooling Industry is a capital intensive and knowledge-based-Industry, supported in innovation and playing the rules of global co-opetition. Moulds, Dies and Tools are present in the design and manufacturing of almost all industrial products, from aeronautics and automotive, to electronics, household, equipment goods and micro-devices. Having interfaces to the final parts (products and components) and production equipment (such as, machine-tools), the Tooling industry is in the core of the production system of final products, determining its competitiveness, efficiency and robustness.
Product innovation, technological development and the optimisation of the whole manufacturing system strongly depend on innovations and developments in Moulds, Dies and Tools. Tooling costs and time to market, as well as their quality and reliability, are key competitive factors, which, directly or indirectly, have a structural and horizontal strategic effect in the sustainability of the European industrial competitiveness.
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The Tooling Industry (moulds, dies and special tools) in Europe represents an average annual turnover of 13 billion USD and comprises more than 7.000 companies, being 95% of them SMEs, representing a high added value workforce (more than 100 000 workers directly in the sector) with a remarkable know-how in design and manufacturing processes.
The Tooling Industry is a capital intensive and knowledge-based-Industry, supported in innovation and playing the rules of global co-opetition. Moulds, Dies and Tools are present in the design and manufacturing of almost all industrial products, from aeronautics and automotive, to electronics, household, equipment goods and micro-devices. Having interfaces to the final parts (products and components) and production equipment (such as, machine-tools), the Tooling industry is in the core of the production system of final products, determining its competitiveness, efficiency and robustness.
Product innovation, technological development and the optimisation of the whole manufacturing system strongly depend on innovations and developments in Moulds, Dies and Tools. Tooling costs and time to market, as well as their quality and reliability, are key competitive factors, which, directly or indirectly, have a structural and horizontal strategic effect in the sustainability of the European industrial competitiveness.
Vision and Mission
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VISION
The Tooling Industry is a horizontal enabler, being one important and fundamental pillar of the whole European industrial structure, whether on the development and industrialization of new products, or on the sustainability of industrial employment. Tooling, Mould and Die making companies are infrastructural strategic players towards the development and sustainability of the European Industry.
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MISSION
The Mission of European Tooling Platform, within a common Vision of the MANUFUTURE strategy, is to support the global integration of the European Tooling key players, towards the proposal, development and implementation of Research and Innovation activities to promote the competitiveness and differentiation of the Tooling companies in Europe and create the conditions to gain a major share of world Manufacturing output in the future knowledge-driven economy. The Platform is the Tooling focal point for Research and Innovation at a European level, in line with the strategy and representativeness of the member states, and will support Tooling companies to strengthen their competitiveness and also their European engineering and production base.
European Tooling Platform
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The European Tooling Platform is the Tooling focal point for Research and Development at European Level, gathering the Industry's key players and stakeholders for the proposal, development and implementation of R&D activities leveraging competitive differentiation and an European high added value engineering and production base, towards the Industry's increased competitiveness and leadership in world markets.
The approval and formal acknowledgement of the European Tooling Platform as a Sub-Platform of the MANUFUTURE Technology Platform, has a strategic relevance to support the implementation of a coordinated Action Plan at a European level.
To reinforce all the above and the strong engagement of the European Tooling Industry, the European Tooling Platform counts with the confirmation and firm support from Industry's stakeholders, notably ISTMA Europe (the European Tooling Association), the EuroTooling 21 Network (35 R&D and Industrial partners from 10 European Countries), the Engineering & Tooling Portuguese Cluster (created last October 2008, in line with the strategic guidelines of MANUFUTURE) and other relevant key-players within the Sector, guaranteing the needed critical mass for its implementation.
In November 2008, the EC launched a European Economic Recovering Plan that includes the development of major partnerships for research and innovation, between the public and private sectors, in three strategic areas – Automobile, Construction and the Initiative “Factories of the Future”. The last one, promoted by MANUFUTURE, aims to “help EU manufacturers across sectors, particularly SMEs, to adapt to global competitive pressures by increasing the technological base of EU manufacturing through the development and integration the enabling technologies of the future, such as engineering technologies for adaptable machines and industrial processes, ICT, and advanced materials”. The estimated envelope for this initiative is € 1.2 bn.
The consolidation of the European Tooling Platform within MANUFUTURE will bring in a horizontal and structural industry and, simultaneously, it will open new opportunities for Tooling SMEs in Europe, taking advantage of this global and integrated movement to promote the competitiveness of European Manufacturing Industry. One should think about the words from Professor Francesco Jovane (MANUFUTURE), during the last MANUFUTURE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, in Saint-Etienne (France):
"(…) MANUFUTURE is an intellectual machine to produce the drivers, but now, we need COMPANIES to implement the strategy for the success of the European Industry."
"We believe in the Future of the European Industry!"
Joaquim Menezes (President of Fórum Manufuture Portugal)