It aims to the competitiveness and innovation in the sector

The Association of the city of Extremadura Cluster (Aclumex) presents to the companies in the sector its pilot counselling and mediation service oriented to facilitate the implementation of technological solutions and technology with technical support from a network of collaborators.

The Association of the city of Extremadura Cluster met Sofiex in Mérida headquarters to fifty companies in the metal and allied in the region to present his new activity of antenna technology (Neola), which is committed to facilitating Associates preferential access to advanced services for quality assuranceas well as the acquisition and assimilation of the latest technology or the development of original solutions through r & d, enabling them to arrive, eventually, to products and services more competitive in national and international markets.

This seminar was opened by the President of the Cluster, Angel Tome Mateos and the Director-General to promote business and industry, Juan Carlos Chávez Moreno. Both agreed to highlight the key role that technology plays in the competitiveness of the industrial companies in Western countries, where the cost of the factors of production is highest, and on the need that intermediate bodies such as the Cluster lead initiatives of this kind in order to help the Extremadura companies for to properly seize opportunities emerging tools and techniques offered to consolidate and improve its position in the market.

For its part, the Managing Director of Aclumex, Miguel Ángel Salgado Manso, mentioned the strong practical orientation of the new service of the Cluster, the experience and high professional qualification of the team involved in the project, as well as excellence scientific technical of technological partners and the wide range of areas covered by thesethus responding to the priorities of the companies in the sector.

The day has also served to show attendees entrepreneurs the main lines of development of key technologies that will be of greater relevance to the sector in the coming years: intelligent and modular machines, widespread application of the laser in processes on an industrial scale, integration of the technology of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing in the processes of production in series, etc. This vision was developed by Cristina Arilla Javierre, Member of the R & d in the Ascamm technology centre, on behalf of the Observatory of Prospectiva Tecnológica Industrial (Opti), a foundation driven by the Ministry of industry, tourism and trade in order to help Governments and enterprises in r & d investment-related decisions.

The day continued with a sunset in common of the latest technological advances in the area of automation and optimization of industrial processes with application in the metalworking sector. In this panel the representatives of some of the members of the network of collaborators of the Aclumex of antenna technology, as it has been the case of Jesus Lake Gestido, Managing Director of the Center technological Aimen, Carlos may Ranera, delegate of group rendering, and Manuel Rodríguez Melchor, Technical Director of r & d Extremadura, together with the investigator of the University of Extremadura, Antonio Calderón Godoy, Coordinator of the Group of robotics, automation and production systems.

Finally, the day was closed by Sebastian Torralba Gómez, Director of the Department of business development of Sofiex, host entity of the Act, which expressed the commitment of this organization with the sector through support for the implementation underway of innovative investment projects.

The definition and implementation of new technological antenna of Aclumex service is a pilot project which has the financial backing of the Junta of Extremadura through the aid program for the promotion of competitiveness and business innovationthat manages the General direction of promoting business and Industrial of the Ministry of economy and labour and that it is being developed with the collaboration of the consultant channel cubic. This technological solutions and r & d unit is configured as a first approximation of what could become a centre of innovation and service sector based in Extremadura, reason for which Aclumex sets out to achieve the following objectives for the sector:

• Help increase competitiveness, quality and performance of the services of trials, analysis and production support.

• Provide solutions innovative techniques and alternatives to the existing at present.

• Enable the creation of integrated solutions for those customers who so require.

• Become element tractor of technology initiatives.

• Act as interlocutor between the sector and the rest of technological agents of interface (University, technological centres, etc.).

• Exercise of promoter active in the areas of awareness-raising and transfer of technological information between companies in the sector.

It is currently the network of collaborators that supports the technological antenna comprised: Asyge, Atisae, Render group, r & d Extremadura, SGS Tecnos, Centro Tecnológico Aimen and Instituto Tecnológico Aimme. This selection of companies and national and regional r & d agencies have technological offer specialized for the metal processing sector. With all these entities the Cluster has signed collaboration agreements that translate in a better position in terms of time and money for partner companies that hire their services and innovation through the antenna.