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Dear Reader, Exciting events happened since our last newsletter. Factories of the Future (FOF) were present during the CEBIT 2012 in Hannover, with a lot of success! Don’t miss our item on this amazing event followed by photos from European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes visiting the stand of ICT for FOF. You might also find interesting to read the blog article on cloud computing making factories digital!We would like also to draw your attention to the Factories of the Future workshop, which will take place on July 2012 and invites you for registration. I would like to thank Paola Fantini, Tom Messervey and Allan Martel for contributing to the newsletter and invite you to share your stories and articles with us. More news and events invitations follow below, but if you would like to stay in the loop, follow us on Twitter account. I wish you a pleasant reading. Marta Bulik, European Commission Top StoryInterview with Thomas Messervey, IMS MTP Coach M: Hi Tom, thank you very much for dedicating a little bit of your time. You’re working as an IMS project coach and facilitator. Can you tell me what does it mean to be a project facilitator? What is your work about? T: Intelligent Manufacturing System is often new for people- so first part of my job is to explain what this program is about and how does it function. One has to remember that any time we deal with public funding, there are rules, standards and regulations, and even on the national level things can be complex. When we do a collaborative project in Europe some work needs to be done to understand how it works in Europe. When we look at the international level and we want to combine Mexico and US, Europe and Korea, we have to know how things work in any of those regions or countries and what the legal implications are. Sometimes people do not want to collaborate because they perceived difficulties which, in fact, are not that difficult. So the most important part of this job is explaining to people what the program is, how it adds value, how it could apply to them. Latest News
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Calls & Events
Meet @ nano- International Brokerage Event on Nanotechnologies, Material Sciences and Industrial Production and Public Private Partnership (PPP)
24 May 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland
Conference “Mission Growth: Europe at the Lead of the New Industrial Revolution”
29 May 2012, Brussels, Belgium
CECIMO Spring Meetings 2012
9-12 June 2012, Ghent, Belgium
18th International ICE Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation
18 – 20 June 2012, Munich, Germany
Industrial Technologies Conference
19-21 June 2012, Aarhus, Denmark
15th International Conference on Machine Design and Production (UMTIK-2012)
19-22 June 2012, Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkey
17-20 July 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
China Green Manufacturing Summit 2012
17-18 August, 2012, Shanghai, China
MITIP 2012 Scientific Forum and Proposers’ Day
24-26 October 2012, Budapest, Hungary
Brazil Automation ISA 2012
6-8 November 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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