I*PROMS

Intelligent Production Machines and Systems Network of Excellence

6th Framework Program, project number: NMP2-CT-2004-500273, project budget: EUR 7,500,000

Implementation timeframe: 10/2004 – 09/2009

Coordinator: Cardiff University, UK

Project purposes: Establish a structure to support R&D work related to manufacturing systems and machinery. The network integrates leading R&D centres, academies and manufacturing companies. The network is supposed to integrate activities of leading European institutions in research on manufacturing systems and machinery.

Project Web site: http://www.iproms.org/

Partners:

  • Profactor, Austria
  • Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 
  • VTT, Finland 
  • Centre Technique des Industries Mecaniques (CETIM), France 
  • National Engineering School of Tarbes, France 
  • INRIA, France 
  • Robosoft. A., France 
  • Schneider Electric GmbH, Germany 
  • Fraunhofer IPA Institute of Manufacturing, Germany 
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), Germany 
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO), Germany 
  • Technical University of Clausthal, Germany 
  • University of Hannover, Germany 
  • University of Patras, Greece 
  • FIDIA S.P.A, Italy 
  • Centro Ricerche Fiat, Italy 
  • University of Naples Federico II, Italy 
  • Industrial Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Poland 
  • University of Minho, Portugal 
  • Dublin City University, Ireland 
  • Fundacion Fatronik, Spain 
  • Fundacion Tekniker, Spain 
  • TNO Industrial Technology, the Netherlands 
  • Sakarya University, Turkey 
  • University of Cambridge, UK 
  • University of Oxford, UK 
  • University of Warwick, UK 
  • Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, UK 
  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK