Dr. David Gonzalez Project Manager PRODINTEC

David Gonzalez is currently working as project manager in PRODINTEC within the Production Department. His interests are related to both Rapid Manufacturing and micro-nano manufacturing. His research is focused on overcoming the existing barriers of RM technologies in order to fully introduce them in European industries. Special attention is paid to the development of new business models capable of addressing the complete value chain, from product design, product fabrication, supply chain management, etc. to the improving of processing time and time-to-market.
David is co-author of 28 scientific publications between those corresponding to articles in peer-review journals of high impact factor, patents, and publications in other collective volumes. Furthermore, he disseminated his results in international and national events which gave rise to the publication of 38 communications in conference proceedings.

PRODINTEC (http://www.prodintec.com) is a Technological Centre created in 2002 whose aim is to improve competitiveness of its clients by means of design and production related technologies. Currently, 30 people, mainly engineers work at the Foundation. Prodintec is specialized in Industrial and Product Design as a creative, technical multidisciplinary and systematic approach; Manufacturing (technologies as 3D Object Polyjet^TM, Direct Metal Laser Sintering (EOS 270), 3D laser scanning or 5-axis CNC micro-milling applied to production and processes); and R&D Management: tools and methodologies to achieve goals with maximum efficiency.

Prodintec is an active regional/national actor in the manufacturing field leading a local platform called "MANUF@CTURIAS". In this platform almost 80 industrial and research stakeholders join efforts in order to successfully carry out national and European activities as well as to share innovative activities in the field.