Gabriel Ferraté will chair the Forum of the MCA automatic, promoted by two exdirectores of automation and Instrumentation

Defined as "Technologies at the service of innovation, productivity and the environment" and the motto indicated in the holder, the Forum of the automatic MCA (whose brand belongs to the promoters since November of 2004) will take place from 29 to 31 March 2006. They constitute the promoter team Ferran Puig Vilar and Laura Tremosa, who were directors of automation and Instrumentation in the years 1981-1989 + 2003-2004 and 1990-2003 respectively. Together with Jordi Ayza (collaborator of AeI) and Alexandre Blasi, Vice President of Samsung Electronics Iberian and member of the Advisory Board of AeI in turn. Gabriel Ferraté Pascual, automatic 2004, current Rector of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya national award and that it was of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya to the length of 20 years, has accepted the Presidency of the given event its innovative character and its foreseeable social and industrial impact.

The Forum, which will consist of between 25 and 30 parallel workshops over three days, has been divided into five vertical and two horizontal fields (see box). This event presents some singularities with regard to acts of this kind are held regularly. In this respect, the procedure of determination of the contents of the Conference seeks to ensure the real industrial interest in the presentations, procedure that has come to be called "of bottom-up". To this end, in the General Committee are most business organizations and industries, and its members will act as arbitrators in terms of quality of the papers in order to its viability and industrial utility. In addition, the participation of international experts is managing. All this looking for the use of the assistance to be an increase in productivity in the short term on the activity that performs the participant, both facing the personal productivity in their work and the resulting from corporate productivity.

The Forum also promotes the meeting between research (long-term implementation technologies), technology centres (technology implementation in the medium term), industry (technology implementation in the short term) and training. This meeting is substance in the three presidencies of the General Committee: research, Sebastián Dormido, President of CEA - IFAC in the field of research; Luis Basáñez, Director of the technological park of Barcelona in the area of technology centres and Julio Rivas, of ISA Spain (Instruments, Systems and Automation). It is anticipated a day specially dedicated to the issues of training, and other spaces where to treat the promotion of entrepreneurship and trade.

The Forum promotes the integration of technologies under the triad MCA (measure-Control-Act), the joint DEOM+R (design, test, operate, maintain and reuse) and the various technologies involved (mechanics, pneumatics, Oleohidráulica, electrical, electronics and informational and their combinations). Finally, the various committees, has sought to a homogeneous representation of all the Spanish communities. Finally, the various committees, has sought to a homogeneous representation of all the Spanish communities.

organization proposed a redefinition of the sector, based on the list measure - Control - Act (MCA), the whole DEOM+R (design, test, operate, maintain and reuse) and the various technologies involved (mechanics, pneumatics, Olehidráulica, electrical, electronics and informational)-(see figure), proposed inclusive of technologies that will no doubt be the subject of debate in the Forum.

The Forum, which will consist of between 25 and 30 parallel workshops over three days, has been divided into five vertical and two horizontal fields.

The vertical areas are 5: 1) products, where the Automátiza brings competitiveness; (2) Production where the automatic brings productivity; (3) Artificial Intelligence and automation, which provides comfort and safety; ((4) Services, optimization, and 5) environment, which provides sustainability. In the two cross-cutting areas, the first, I) technologies, the automatic provides feasibility and in the second, II) environment, brings opportunities.

High Representative of the committees involved

These associations:

• Associació Catalana d'Enginyers in Electrònica (ACEEE)
  
• Association Spanish companies of electronics and information technologies and telecommunications (AETIC)
  
• Associació Catalana d'Empreses D'enginyeria i consulting Mediambiental (ACECMA)
  
• Association of Professionals of them renewable Energies of Catalunya (APERCA)
  
• Association of producers of renewable energies (APPA)
  
• Association Spanish Rapid Manufacturing (ASERM)
  
• Spanish Association of management and development of people (AEDIPE)
  
• Spanish automatic cea-ifacCommittee
  
• Association Spanish responsible of purchases and stocks (AERCE)
  
• European Machine Vision Association (EMVA)
  
• Automotive technicians society (ATS)
  
• Association of instrumentation, systems and automation (ISA Spain)
• Design for the World
  
• Associació Catalana d'Empreses constructors of Motlles i Matrius (ASCAMM)
  
• Association of equipment manufacturers of air conditioning (affected)
• Spanish (APPICE) fuel cell Association.

Companies:

• André Ricard design engineering
  
• Abrox
  
• Bioqua
• Cepsa
  
• Datapixel
  
• Ecotècnia
  
• Foster & Wheeler
  
• Girbau
  
• Agbar Group
  
• Application engineering
  
• INITEC energy
  
• Gelo laboratories
• Inerco
  
• Lear Automotive
  
• M. torres
  
• Nissan Technology Centre
  
• Repsol YPF
  
• Samsung Electronics Iberia
  
• Spin
  
• TSK electronics and electricity

Present technology centers:

• Ikerlan/Enerlan;
  
• Laboratory of Oleohidráulicos and tires (Labare) systems
  
• Centre d'Innovació Tecnològica in Revalorització Energètica i Refrigeració (Crever)
  
• Fundació Ascamm Centre Tecnològic
  
• National Center of renewable energies (Cener)
  
• Fundació Centre CIM
  
• Factory Automation Division, Robotics and Automation Laboratory, Institute of Production Engineering (Finland)
  
• Automation, robotics and information technology and manufacturing (Cartif) Center
  
• Centre de Disseny d' clubs industry (CDEI)
  
• Institute of Industrial automatic
  
• Foundation Circe (Center of research resources and energy consumption)
  
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl-NASA)
  
• Solar Energy Institute (ies-upm)
• Technological Institute of renewable energy (ITER)

Research centers present:

• Spanish Committee of automatic (cea-ifac)
  
• Department of systems engineering and automation of the University of Seville (ISA-us)
  
• IEEE Control Systems Society (ieee-css)
  
• Departament D'enginyeria de systems, machine translation i Informàtica Industrial (esaii-upc)
  
• Research Group on renewable energies of the public University of Navarra
  
• Department of systems engineering and machine translation at the University of Valladolid (ISA-UVa)
  
• Ikerlantechnological research center
  
• Centre for energy, environmental and technological research (CIEMAT)
  
• Institut Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)
  
• Department of systems engineering and Automatics of the University of the Basque country (DISA)
  
• Department of chemical engineering and environment of the University of Seville (iqa-us)
  
• University of Castilla - La Mancha (UCLM)
  
• Centre in Materials Avançats de Referència per a l'Energia (CeRMAE)

Administration:

• Department of sustainable development, Department of Medi Ambient i Habitatge, Generalitat de Catalunya
  
• Area of buildings, transport and energy renewable Institut Català d' energy (ICAEN)
  
• Consell Assessor per to sustainable development (CADS), Generalitat de Catalunya
  
• José Antonio Sánchez Quintanilla, General Secretary of the IDAE
  

Other:

• Automatic magazine and Instrumentation
• Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica (ACCC)
  
• IRED (Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Generation into the European Energy Grid)