VRL-KciP
Virtual Research Lab for a Knowledge Community in Production

Project NoE FP6, Contract no: 507487; Start/Finish date: 1June 2004/30 May 2008

Scientific coordinator: Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
Romanian Partner: Politehnica University of Timisoara, Integrated Engineering Research Centre

Abstract: The delocalisation of the production systems result in Europe losing its know-how in the technologies of production. However, high quality products at low costs, considering the sustainable development and quickly put on the market can only be obtained by integrating the production phase in the design stage. It has also been requested to integrate new technologies of production to design innovative products. This can be obtained by installing a virtual production system.

Through the VRL-KCiP Network of Excellence, Europe will be able to federate many research teams in the field of design, production and innovation and thus preserve the common inheritance of manufacturing processes while carrying out a collaborative system of design integrating a module of virtual production.

25 research units, gathering 230 researchers, decided to work together in other to strongly integrate their teams and thus break the fragmentation of the European research and work more efficiently. A new organization of the research system must lead to a clearer vision of the research orientations, an improvement of the quality of research by using the complementarities and removing the doubled blooms, and finally a better impact on our companies for the good health of our society.

Project website: www.vrl-kcip.org