Objective To identify and select most relevant design engineering techniques which, in the context of the product development process, have more influence in the competitiveness of the companies, in terms of cost, quality and delivery time of the products.To produce a handbook with a description of selected techniques, including information referring "best practices", technology readiness, achieved improvements and existing tools."DENTOT handbook" will be updated during the action by means of the collaboration among partners, with ultimate developments referring selected techniques, and new techniques will be added to it, and it will include also information on good-practices, demonstrated improvements, currently used tools, real experiences, ...To develop transnational exchange of experiences referring design engineering practices, sharing knowledge on previous topics.Four workshops will be held in four different EU countries (Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Denmark), and each of them organised by the corresponding national organisation of the consortium, with the close collaboration of the rest of the partners.To raise awareness concerning the potential influence on productivity, quality, time-to-market, and costs of properly applied design engineering techniques, within the Product Development Process.A newsletter will be published following to the celebration of each workshops.To make a study about the suitability of a permanent network for the promotion and dissemination of design engineering methodologies and techniques. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity Programme(s) FP4-INNOVATION - Specific programme for the dissemination and exploitation of the results of activities in the field of research, technological development and demonstration, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 5 - Innovation Management Techniques (IMTs) Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator SOCINTEC S.A. EU contribution No data Address Calle Mayor, 10 48930 LAS ARENAS (VIZKAIA) Spain See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Danish Technological Institute (DTI) Denmark EU contribution No data Address Teknologiparken 8000 AARHUS C See on map Total cost No data Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. Germany EU contribution No data Address Pascalstrasse 8-9 10587 BERLIN See on map Total cost No data LABEIN Centro de Investigación Tecnológica Spain EU contribution No data Address Cuesta de Olabeaga 16 48013 BILBAO See on map Total cost No data University of Nottingham United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham See on map Total cost No data