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Industrial Partners 
| | Development of projecting and programming software for automation industry and apper-training services. kirchner SOFT GmbH was founded in 1987 and develops graphical programming- and documentation systems for embedded automation and control systems as well as dependable runtime platforms. kirchner SOFT has been acting as a member in several user organizations since its foundation. Cooperation with various committees, such as PLCopen, ISPE etc. makes it possible to take part in shaping the future of embedded systems technology for industrial automation. These activities are possible because more than half of the engineers are responsible for research and development of innovative future technologies. | | | | | | | | | | 
| | MCM was established in 1978 and it has had a constant growth during the years. At present, it has a staff of 220 people and the turnover of the year 2000 was of about 60 million Euro with an export quota of 30%. In 1987 MCM incorporated its subsidiary company MCM FRANCE sarl for the sale and after-sale service in France, Belgium and Spain. The areas of Northern Europe (Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland) are supported by the subsidiary company MCM DEUTSCHLAND founded in 1996. In 1997 MCM USA Inc. was incorporated in Chicago and it gives the sales and after-sales support for North America. MCM designs, produces, installs and services all its machining centers and production systems. The heart of MCM is the Designing, Research and Development Dept.: It is the place where ideas are realized into innovative solutions. The 10 engineers of Software and Engineering dept. realize the software for the systems’ management; their latest product is the jFMX – java powered Flexible Manufacturing Executive: It is the basis for the integration of the production systems into the enterprise Web. MCM production is based on a complete range of high quality horizontal axis machining centers, FMCs – flexible manufacturing cells and FMSs – flexible manufacturing systems. A series of standard automation modules complete the possibilities to configure the different systems according to customer’s needs. Therefore, MCM’s leading sectors are: automotive industry, aerospace industry, molds, pneumatics, and mechanical industry. | | | | | | | | | | 
| | SCHUNK is a company with 1,450 employee’s worldwide and annual sales of 150.000.000 Euro. Its business is robotic accessories, gripping systems, tool holding systems, and stationary clamping systems. SCHUNK is the world’s largest supplier of chuck jaws and clamp technology and one of the market leader for gripping systems in Europe. The company produces in Germany, China and in the USA and has 40 subsidiaries or partners in all five continents. SCHUNK is partner for development in many different industries and fields of research – from standardised up to individual gripping modules; rotary and linear systems; from components for the robotic sector up to complex assemblies. SCHUNK also develops and offers lightweight arms for mobile applications for service robotic applications. Technological creativity, high innovation competence and fundamental experience are the factors of success in engineering, production and service. | | | | | | | | | | 
| | Electricité de France (EDF) was set up in 1946 out of the desire to have a national electrical utility that could help rebuild the country after the Second World War. Since its creation, the company has had the responsibility for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in France. Today, EDF, a limited liability company (“Société Anonyme”) since 19 November 2004, is the parent company of the EDF Group, a key player in the field of electricity generation, distribution and supply in Europe. EDF and the Group network (67 affiliates) carry out energy-related activities focused on the core businesses of generation, trading, transmission, distribution, supply and services. | | | | | | | | | | 
| | One of the main goals of O3neida is to respond rapidly to emerging market and industry driven requirements by mounting research efforts or collaborating in existing research efforts mounted by others. These efforts might consist of: developing compliance profiles for emerging standards; examining impediments to the automation of smart assembly processes; developing an automation objects framework for developers; mounting open source standards elaboration projects, etc. O³neida is partnered with several associations, networks, universities, research institutes and companies with respect to these activities. | | | The following members of the O³neida network are participating in the requirements and demonstration phase in the MEDEIA project (Cluster of Automatic Packaging Machine Builders): |
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