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News Release from: UCIMU
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2007
Italians develop manufacturing
innovation
Italy has set up the 'Platform-Manufuture Italia', to develop and support to innovation in the manufacturing field and, more specifically, to the manufacturing instruments.
The Italian Platform for the development of the national manufacturing industry - Manufuture Italia - has come into being Alberto Tacchella, president of UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre, the Association of Italian machine tool, robot and automation manufacturers, and vice-president of Federmacchine, the Federation representing the Manufacturers of instruments, is at the head of the new organization
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Manufuture Italia, which involves representatives from the industry, from the research world and from the technological regional districts, has as its primary aim the definition and the development of a research, innovation and high-training strategy.
This should enable to strengthen and increase the competitiveness and sustainability of the Italian manufacturing industry that must compete on the factor of high added-value production, besides that of costs.
Strictly connected with the Platform Manufuture Europe, the Platform for the development of the national manufacturing industry will cooperate with the other European Platforms and with the technological regional districts, in order to exploit all possible synergies directed to the development of industrial innovation, intending to be a reference interlocutor for institutions.
President Alberto Tacchella commented: "With the Platform Manufuture Italia a structure has been created, which enables the enterprises operating in the sector of instrumental goods and, more generally, to all enterprises belonging to the Italian manufacturing industry, to present themselves to national and European institutions as a single, homogeneous, compact and no longer fragmented interlocutor." Tacchella continued: "Thanks to this new organization, it will be possible to contribute to closing the gap and stimulating the relationship between the industrial and the research worlds, encouraging the development of a new industrial system based on knowledge and on the new business models.
This strategy will allow our manufacturing sector to operate in competitive frameworks that are becoming more and more complex." Professor Francesco Jovane stated: "To remain competitive and play a leading role in the global market, the enterprises of the manufacturing sector must increase their innovation capacities, by investing economic-financial resources, human resources, infrastructures, technologies and research activities, aimed at developing new, high added-value products, processes and business models.
Nevertheless, even the research institutions must and will have to evolve and change more and more, to give their contribution in terms of research and development of new technologies." The first appointment for the Platform Manufuture Italia is the publication of the Strategic Research Agenda, which will indicate the guidelines to be pursued for research and innovation.
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