PLATAFORMA TECNOLÓGICA ESPAÑOLA PARA LA I+D+i EN EL ÁMBITO DE LA FABRICACIÓN

The Spanish industry, mainly constituted by SMEs, needs to improve its competitiveness and to adapt to new exigencies of sustainable development and customized production, with more qualified human resources and a continued technological development.

One of the innate problems of the Spanish industry is the small size of the companies.In this aspect, an effort of public policy must be done to create collaborative environments and to generate a critical mass sufficient to approach projects of greater ambition. The effort and the cost that annually make the Spanish companies in technological innovation is increasing, although still smaller to the countries of our surroundings, with an unfavorable balance of payments by technology.

This effort contrasts with the small explooitation by the companies of the scientific resources available in Spain. For that reason, the National Plan must make an emphasis in diagnosing and solving the existing problems to improve the system of Science-Technology-Company, improving the global yield. It is necessary to improve the scientific production, to maximize the technological development and the transference to the companies.

Spain is a manufacturing country and, specially, manufacturing of production equipment. An effort is due to locate Spain in the place it deserves between the countries of high technology.

Besides, the traditional product sectors manufacturing (leather and footwear, textile and preparation, wood and furniture, tiles, toy, …) have a strong impact in the GDP. They represent a use around the 600,000 workers, with a noticeable exporting character (12,500 M€) and group to a total of 40,500 companies of industrial character, technologically having a high technological dependency of the competing countries. In addition, the competition of the developing countries, forces the national companies to more redirect themselves towards other products of greater added value, more technical, being optimized the productive and logistic systems, and with an environmental norm, which the emergent economies lack. The future on the productive system will depend, to a great extent, of the development and implantation of design and industrial production technologies, that make possible a sustainable growth, competitive and respectful with environment, leading to greater technological independence and control on the generation of products and the processes.