This project is led from Japan with partners from Switzerland, Germany, UK and Finland and is designed to optimise the benefits of recent reconfigurable and highly automated production systems. More details are available on the IMS web site. The project is directed towards more stringent quality control in the wood products industry. Once again, more details are available on the IMS web site. Of these there is 1 complete and a further 14 are now fully endorsed.
Business innovation is the key to translating invention into market success.
In addition to all this, there is a huge number of entrepreneurs who do not create their own business because they do not find the necessary capital or their business knowledge is too poor. The work has started and proceeds in general according to the plan. The public part of the home page will grow when more public information becomes available during the 4 year project. It is also planned to be used as one of the information collection channels in different phases of the project, where appropriate. As a funding problem in the EU region has been an obstacle to launch this international cooperative research project formally, the biggest concern in 3DS has been to secure funding.