Objective Tool and die making workshops provide critical support for industry by providing and designing customized mechanical components. It is estimated that within the EU these enterprises, especially the Eastern European, are mostly organized as SMEs. They do not have the financial and human resources for the implementation of complex ERP applications from the powerful software suppliers. Furthermore the functionalities of these standardized applications do not fulfil the specific requirements of the tool and die making industry.The project Tool-East will provide a cost-efficient ERP application for tool and die making workshops on the basis of existing open source ERP applications. Within the project the open source application will be adapted and modified for the specific requirements of this branch. The new adapted and modified ERP application supports the efficient coordination of intra-enterprise order processing and strengthens competition and competitiveness of Eastern European SMEs. Primarily, orders management, work planning, resource allocation and CRM need to be optimised and linked together in a dynamic work environment. Moreover ERP applications are necessary for the electronic collaboration in dynamic business networks. To enable industrial cluster to e-collaboration the consisting process and data standards will be considered for the Tool-East project.One main challenge of this project is to use open source technology for the development of an integrated business application for tool and die making enterprises with high performance regarding availability, safety and maintainability at the very onset. Strengthening the open source initiative in general and particularly in this field of business opens an enormous potential for SMEs. Since demands for business software from other branches with specific SME structures are predominantly comparable, results from this project can be transferred easily, so that a large impact can be assumed. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.13 - Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER RATIONALISIERUNG EU contribution No data Address PONTDRIESCH 14/16 AACHEN Germany See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EMO-ORODJARNA PROIZVODNA DRUZBA D.O.O. Slovenia EU contribution No data Address Bezigrajska cesta 10 CELJE See on map Total cost No data HERTI LTD Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address ANTIM I STR. 38 9700 SHOUMEN See on map Total cost No data INSIEL - INFORMATICA PER IL SISTEMA DEGLI ENTI LOCALI S.P.A. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA SAN FRANCESCO D'ASSISI 43 TRIESTE See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN EU contribution No data Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IT PARTNERS OOD Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address SREDETS DISTRICT, 49 HAN ASPARUH STR., ENTR. A, FL. 1, AP \* 1000 SOFIA See on map Total cost No data KUHN TECHNOLOGY EOOD Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address VITOSHA REGION, 2 BYAL NARTSIS STR. 1619 SOFIA See on map Total cost No data MAYKING S.P.A. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA BEGGIATO 2-2C 36025 NOVENTA VICENTINA See on map Total cost No data PROCESNA AUTOMATIZACIA A.S. KOSICE Slovakia EU contribution No data Address STROJARENSKA 1 040 01 KOSICE See on map Total cost No data QUINTELLIGENCE, INTELIGENTNO UPRAVLJANJE Z ZNANJEM D.O.O. Slovenia EU contribution No data Address JAMOVA CESTA 39 1000 LJUBLJANA See on map Total cost No data RAZVOJNI CENTER ORODJARSTVA SLOVENIJE Slovenia EU contribution No data Address KIDRICEVA ULICA 25 CELJE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET BREMEN Germany EU contribution No data Address Bibliothekstrasse 1 BREMEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VALJI, PROIZVODNJA VALJEV IN ULITKOV D.O.O., STORE Slovenia EU contribution No data Address ZELEZARSKA CESTA 3 3220 STORE See on map Total cost No data ZAVOD-CENTER SLOVENSKEGA ORODJARSKEGA GROZDA CELJE Slovenia EU contribution No data Address KIDRICEVA ULICA 25 3000 CELJE See on map Total cost No data ZMM METALIK AD Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address SINITEVSKA STR. 4 4400 PAZARDJIK See on map Total cost No data