centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal “Intelligence and Innovation for the Development of the Portuguese Automotive Industry” “Inteligência e Inovação para o Desenvolvimento da Indústria Automóvel em Portugal” 17-10-2011 |1| centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal Objectives and Strategic Pillars • Boosting of competitiveness of the national automotive industry by the improvement of skills and capabilities in technology, strategy, organization and innovation in order to claim a national automotive cluster. • Strategic Pillars: – Technology development and optimisation of management practices – Human resources qualification – Technology and innovation management – Cluster promotion 17-10-2011 | 2 | centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal CTCV role Ecotech : Support to the development of eco-friendly automotive components Main Objective Development, validation and demonstration of the Powder Injection moulding Technology, as a eco-friendly and competitive way for the automotive component production Complementary Objectives Material substitution by other capable to be recycled Improvements in technical characteristics and lifetime Contribution for the development of the national industry Competences development in materials forming technologies Develpoment of materials and component production processes Spreading of the use of powder injection moulding by component producers 17-10-2011 | 3 | centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal CTCV role Case study for the development and production of a automotive component by PIM •Searching in national companies of one of several components produced by a conventional and high environmental impact process, able to be replaced •Development of an alternative production process - PIM • Evaluation and demonstration of technical, economical and environmental of the new production process. 17-10-2011 | 4 | centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal • Partnership CEIIA (Leader) – INTELI – AGILTEC – INEGI – INESC – CATIM – CTCV – IPN – IST – INETI – AEP,AINP - AFIA • Implementation period 2002-2003 • Contact in CTCV Dpl-Eng. Luc Hennetier [email protected] 17-10-2011 | 5 | centro tecnológico da cerâmica e do vidro | coimbra | portugal