Translation of "Ingénieur en production assistée par ordinateur " (French → English) :

Eligible measures The measures eligible under Retex could involve the following: a) Improving know-how by providing businesses with aid to pay for advisory services and the equipment (excluding machinery for production) to put the advice into practice, in the fields of design, quality control, computer-assisted manufacturing and planning, marketing, etc. b) Aid for the formation of local associations of businesses and other cooperation schemes for the purpose of: - improving know-how in the areas described under (a) above, - research and the development of new methods of production; - marketing and diversification of products; - improv ...[+++]ing information on market trends; - creating networks of contacts. c) Setting up teams to provide ideas and advice to assist small and medium-sized businesses. d) Temporary contributions towards paying engineers, technical staff and managers who are recruited to help in implementing modernization plans for businesses drawn up with the assistance of outside experts. e) Vocational training schemes for staff in textile and clothing firms and retraining for staff faced with reduncancy or already unemployed. f) The rehabilitation of industrial wasteland, including restoring redundant industrial buildings, aid to reduce pollution caused by industry (the treatment and recycling of liquid effluent and industrial waste). g) Improving access to venture capital and loans.

These themes cover nine major technological fields: the problems of reliability, wear and deterioration of materials and systems; laser technology and powder metallurgy; joining techniques; new testing methods, including non-destructive testing and computer- aided testing; computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM); polymers, composites and other new materials; membrane science and technology; catalysis and particle technology; new technologies applied to articles made from flexible materials: because the problems it is currently facing present a good example of the way new technologies can be applied, the sector chosen to ...[+++] benefit primarily from this initiative is the clothing industry (cutting out, handling and assembly techniques, etc.).

These themes cover nine major technological fields: the problems of reliability, wear and deterioration of materials and systems; laser technology and powder metallurgy; joining techniques; new testing methods, including non-destructive testing and computer- aided testing; computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM); polymers, composites and other new materials; membrane science and technology; catalysis and particle technology; new technologies applied to articles made from flexible materials: because the problems it is currently facing present a good example of the way new technologies can be applied, the sector chosen to ...[+++] benefit primarily from this initiative is the clothing industry (cutting out, handling and assembly techniques, etc.).

- 2 - Remarkable developments during the past years have included: - the economic recovery of the European iron and steel industry, which had shed 41% of its personnel during the 1980s; - the large-scale replacement throughout the economy of traditional machinery by computer-aided and computer-integrated equipment, which has caused a boom for the European mechanical engineering sector; - the decline of energy consumption in EC industry by 10 % since 1973, while at the same time energy consumption in transport increased by 72%; - the increasing German share in the turnover of the 100 largest EC companies (from 22% in 1983 to 30% in 198 ...[+++]9).