We are happy to announce that the 6th RM Platform meeting will be held June 2nd in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission.
This will be a special meeting since the new 2010 call is expected to open at July 30th (please check call texts at CORDIS).
Besides being a General Assembly meeting, we will dedicate much attention to new FP7 initiatives and new Project initiatives (Project Brokerage). Andrea Gentili will present latest news on the Factory of the Future and PPP's (Public Private Projects), whereas Claude Rieg will go into more detail on RM specific topics.
We will have 7 minute presentations of new project initiatives (please sign up!) and a possibility to present posters, as well as an update of the four running RM projects.
Last but not least we will have a good opportunity for networking and planning future cooperations.

Looking forward to meeting you all June 2nd!
The agenda and signing up forms (mandatory!) are downloadable here.

The RM Platform Management Board

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The 6th RM Platform stakeholders meeting was held June 2nd 2009 in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the European Commission. Over  58  attendees from all over Europe took the opportunity to discuss about the RM platform,  new FP7 initiatives and new Project initiatives (Project Brokerage).

Andrea Gentili presented the latest news on the Factory of the Future and PPP's (Public Private Projects)

Claude Rieg went  into more detail on RM specific topics.

There have been several presentations of new project initiatives  as well as an update of  three running RM projects  (Directspare, Compolight and Impala) .

The next meeting, the 7th RM Platform Stakeholders meeting, will be organized during VR@p in Leiria Portugal on invitation by Prof Bartolo and is planned  in the period of October 6-10  2009 , more details to follow soon.

All presentations can be downloaded here (for registered users only).

The RM Platform Management Board

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The 5th RM Platform stakeholders meeting was held September 16th 2008 in Ptuj, Slovenia, kindly organised by the Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana. Over 95 attendees from all over Europe took the opportunity to discuss about the RM platform, EUREKA and ERA-NET and JTI.

Frits Feenstra will be the new person from TNO coordinating the RM platform, (replacing Anton Gerrits who gets a new job at TNO). He mentioned that the RM platform will incorporate progress and achievements from the four projects being funded by the EU (Directspare, Compolight, Stepup and Impala) in next meetings. Two presentations were given to still our need for “talking technology”: Thierry Dormal from Sirris presented latest developments in metals RM followed by Phil Reeves (Econolyst) presentation on the low carbon footprint of RM. Thanks for both vivid and most relevant presentations!

The day was closed by a round table discussion addressing a.o. the input from local industry in the RM Platform, the possible formation of three RM application cluster groups (i.e. commodities, medical and industrial parts) within the platform and some other issues. The next meeting, the 6th RM Platform Stakeholders meeting, will be organized by the European Commission and is planned for June 2nd in Brussels, more details to follow soon.

All presentations can be downloaded here (for registered users only).

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COMPOLIGHT

Develop new rapid manufacturing methods and solutions to improve the design of complex lightweight parts with internal channels or porous structures

STEPUP

Develop new systems, i.e. materials design and development, through the mechano-chemical modification, based on the high energy ball milling technology in polymers, for RM applications.

DirectSpare

Deliver spare parts on-demand in large industries using RM techniques, so reducing the need for large store houses, wasted spare parts and large inventories

IMPALA

Develop a rapid manufacturing process using a laser-based process to produce customized small and medium volume parts from powders.

The recent RM Platform stakeholders meeting Took place last Tuesday 25th September in combination with the TCT Rapid Manufacturing Conference in Coventry, UK.

With about 60 peoples of over 50% from industry and the presence of the EC Programme Officer for RM, we discussed several topics about European RM research and boosted the creation of BTB business with RM during a unique workshop.

All presentations and workshop results can be found here.

You have to be a platform “stakeholder” to have access to the files. Please mail us to learn about the benefits of this free membership.

Next meeting will take place on Wednesday April 16, 2008 in Gijon / Asturias, Spain.

It will be organized with the kind collaboration of Prodintec and the RM platform Spain.
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The next meeting of the European RM Platform will be held in Asturias (Spain) on the 15-16th April 2008, kindly hosted by PRODINTEC. Everyone is kindly invited, where you will have the chance to extend your knowledge about RM business opportunities and to establish new collaborations with companies working in the field. Key policy makers will be invited from the industry, EC, Manufuture and National Contact Points. Here you can find the flyer with more info.

1^st day: a workshop on RM will take place. The idea is to give a prospective of the status of RM from the business point of view. Top-level speakers will be invited to give presentations (e.g. Siemens, Indo, Delcam, TNO, De Monfort University, etc). It will be organised in collaboration with the Custom-Fit consortium and the Spanish RM platform.

2^nd day: a RM platform meeting will be held. Everyone is welcome so not only the stakeholders. Major topic is a workshop aiming at creating business initiatives on a regional and national level. Also other news will be presented like from FP7 and its recent approved RM projects.

You can find here the preliminary agenda.

Registration is possible through the homepage of Prodintec: www.prodintec.com

Looking forward to seeing you in Asturias!!