A European project will improve the competitiveness and capacity of companies to adapt to the market
Publication date:
05/19/2009
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The Polytechnic University of Valencia, through the Center for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), leads REMPLANET, a European project that seeks, among other objectives, to increase the competitiveness of Multiplant Business Networks. Among the partners of the project is also the Technological Institute of Informatics (ITI) of the UPV.
The project started last week at the UPV – with the celebration of the “Kick-off meeting” in the Polytechnic City of Innovation – and will extend until April 2012. Throughout these three years, methods, guidelines and tools whose application will help companies adapt and respond better to changes in the market and obtain advantages over competitors with less capacity to adapt.
According to the CIGIP professor and researcher, Raúl Poler, REMPLANET aims to provide tools that allow networks of European non-hierarchical industrial companies to improve their competitiveness by increasing their capacity to adapt to unforeseen changes in an agile way, in order to to take advantage of the rapid evolution of current and future markets. “These tools will help us know how to respond to unexpected changes in the market, such as what we are experiencing today in the international economy with the global crisis. They will help companies adapt to the economic situation,” adds Poler.
REMPLANET will contribute to a significant reduction in logistics costs, high levels of current asset inventories and material lead times. To achieve this, this project will develop the appropriate tools to overcome the complexity of operating in several production networks, and at the same time, facilitate an increase in business volume. Among others, the development of a tool for the Simulation and Optimization of production and logistics scenarios of multi-plant networks is planned, as well as a Platform to support Open Innovation Processes.
The models and tools developed in the project will be validated through 6 pilots in different multi-localized and multi-national plants of networks of companies in the machinery and capital goods sector.
The REMPLANET project consortium consists of various research groups as well as companies – both SMEs and large companies – from Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. The total budget of the project is 3.8 million euros.
A total of 27 researchers from all members of the consortium attended the “Kick-off meeting” and, after two days of intense work developed in each of the eight work packages of which the project consists, all the objectives set for the launch have been covered. The Project Officer (the person responsible for monitoring the project by the European Commission) attended all the work sessions and expressed his satisfaction both with the organization carried out by the UPV and with the degree of involvement of all the project partners and, especially, the interest expressed by industrial partners in the expected results.
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