Vision & European Policy

The transformation of the European manufacturing Industry into a knowledge-based sector, capable of competing successfully in the globalised marketplace, depends largely on a sustainable presence, in Europe, of robust capabilities in Tooling manufacturing.

Development of a new European paradigm for the tooling (moulds, dies and special tools) Industry, creating the foundations for an excellence knowledge area which, by its transversal and strategic horizontality, supports the sustainability in all industrial sectors, from manufacturing of micro applications to large devices, from "one-of-a-kind" and small series to large scale and massive production.

The research addressing innovative technological developments should provide a contribution for the new European paradigm in Tooling Industry, in particular in the support of new business models and dynamic networking and in the deployment of the technological foundations of extended services along the tools life cycle.