II Forum of competitiveness in the metalworking industry
The meeting was attended different managers and technicians of the Ministry of industry and the environment, the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Félix Faura, and the Chairmen of the FREMM, Juan Antonio Muñoz, and of the Association of manufacturers of machinery and steel structures in the regionGregorio Navarro.
On the situation of the sector of machining in the region of Murcia spoke Manuel Estrems, the Department of materials engineering and manufacturing of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, who presented a "study of the competitiveness of the sector in the tooling" in the region of Murciafunded by the company Vigaceros SA. In its report collect a proposal for a roadmap to improve the capacity within the sector.
Innovation in business management addressed the Pablo Cardona, Professor of managing people in the Organization, IESE Business School in Barcelona, who introduced a new philosophy of enterprise management based on management by missions, rather than by goals. Attending the Forum enterprises also had opportunity to meet the full range of ways to promote the access of SMEs to the r & d Center of Francisco Ruz, Coordinator of technology innovation of the UPTC intervention.
The cycle of lectures was closed about the rise of China's economy, its threats and opportunities, with Gonzalo Trevijano, Project manager of ACM Investment.
In his speech, the director of the Institute of development, Francisco sardine, confirmed that last year sold out the line of credit to productive investment, technology and innovation and the competitiveness of SMEs. Among the companies that have received these grants in 2005, there have been 140 projects, involving a total investment of € 22 million, with an approved of some 3 million EUR subsidy.
For its part, the Chairman of FREMM, Juan Antonio Muñoz, stressed at the end of the event the effect Domino modernization of metal processing is getting in the rest of the industrial fabric of the region, to understand that the improvement of the machinery is favoring a breakthrough in production processeswith a role in the growth of the PII of a 7 per cent, according to the latest data provided from the regional government.
The competitiveness Forum is organised by FREMM and the Manufacturers Association of machinery and steel structures in the region, in collaboration the Directorate General of industry, energy and mines, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the technological center of Metalthe school officer of engineers industrialists of the region of Murcia and the official College of industrial technical engineers in the region of Murcia; In addition to the sponsors, the Instituto de Fomento, Cajamar, Cajamurcia, Cam and Vigaceros S.A. coinciding with the meeting, held an open day at the center of formation of FREMM, with special attention to the workshop of machine tools.
