Web sites

Citation

(2010), "Web sites", Assembly Automation, Vol. 30 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2010.03330aag.001

Web sites

Article Type: Web sites From: Assembly Automation, Volume 30, Issue 1

EUPASSwww.eas-env.org/

The evolvable assembly systems environment (EAS-ENV) web site was developed as part of the European evolvable ultra-precision assembly systems (EUPASS) project to assist in the formation of a more extensive group of developers and users of adaptive assembly systems. EAS-ENV combines commercial solutions, R&D projects, and development topics.

The EAS-ENV web site contains information on EAS concepts, conferences/events, roadmaps for future European production and manufacturing, courses, publications, and links to related projects.

Additionally, the site lists commercial achievements, which include pictures, videos, marketing, partners, and commercial EAS modules.

The homepage features a daily news ticker, a Forum, a Wiki of concepts, methods, and models that are used in evolvable assembly systems, and a blog that contains opinion articles of the EAS paradigm authors.

PMARLabwww.dimec.unige.it/PMAR/index.htm

The web site for the PMARlab (Laboratory of Design and Measurement for Automation and Robotics, Department of Machines Mechanics and Design), from the University of Genova Italy, provides a short overview of the Lab's research activities in: robotics, automation, measurement, European projects, and national (Italy) projects.

There is also information on the Lab's staff, publications, and PhD theses. A selection of downloadable papers, videos, and PhD theses, subdivided by topics, can be found on the download page.

IVAMwww.ivam-research.de/en/index.php

IVAM research is the economic research division of IVAM GmbH and has been conducting surveys and collecting statistics in the fields of microtechnology, nanotechnology, and new materials since 2004.

IVAM-research's homepage is headlined with News and Events. There are links to the IVAM directory online in which the visitor can search for technologies, markets and products of the members of the IVAM Microtechnology Network; IVAM surveys of high-tech industries in Germany and Europe released in three publications; statistics of economic data among the members of the IVAM Microtechnology Network; and references of some of the projects that IVAM research has carried out for customers, or in cooperation with partners.

The web site is brief yet succinct, and appears to be a very good resource for information on Europe's microtechnology and nanotechnology fields.

EARTOwww.earto.eu/

The European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO), is an international non-profit trade association representing over 350 public and private specialised research and technology organizations throughout Europe. EARTO organizes working groups that represent the views of its members to European decision-makers. EARTO also organizes information events, annual conferences, task forces, and briefing sessions.

EARTO's web site is very comprehensive. It contains information/links on EARTO and its key contacts; a list of members that include the members' web sites; membership info; publications; EARTO's monthly e-newsletter; working groups/task forces which is an open forum in which members meet to raise and debate European issues; EARTO's annual conferences; Seventh Framework Programme Support Services; events; European Information on European institutions and programmes; and a members area. The latest news is featured on every page.