Objective Europe's tooling industry takes up key a position within the production industries of Europe and all other IMS countries as studies have shown. Each production ramp-up depends on the completion of the required tools and their integration into the existing production facilities, the product’s quality is directly linked to the tool’s quality. The tooling industry is facing challenges concerning their local and global performance. Regarding their local performance, there are no adequate interfaces and sporadic, undefined loops between the customers’ product development process and the toolmakers’ tool development process. Only few toolmakers offer product-services along the product development process, hardly any offer product-services along the production phase. Regarding their global performance only a little number of European toolmakers uses global cost potentials, markets and flexibility: they don’t realise the chances of globalisation. As a result tool and die companies face the question on how to meet the customer’s needs at best locally and globally in order to remain competitive. Ideal solutions to the customer’s problems instead of a ‘simple’ tool can be developed by an early integration of product and tool development processes. Global cooperation offers chances to sustainably improve their position in this fierce competitive environment. With this project European toolmakers are given tools to improve their local and global performance. These tools allow synchronising their tool development/ design with the customers’ product development processes by means of a continuous simultaneous engineering. The time-to-market of the final product can thus be shortened. Secondly this project shall enable European toolmakers to build global cooperation networks and make them capable of linking them to cross-country product development and production networks. Fields of science social sciencessociologyglobalization Keywords Business Models Product-Service-Systems Product-Services Smart Tools Toolmaking Virtual Collaboration Programme(s) FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Topic(s) NMP-2007-3.3-1 - Innovative Customer-Driven Product-Service Design in a Global Environment Call for proposal FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN EU contribution € 1 049 422,68 Address TEMPLERGRABEN 55 52062 Aachen Germany See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Städteregion Aachen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Günther Schuh (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAET ST. 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