SAMT SUDOE supports small companies in the plastics and mould sector in the adoption of technological changes. The latter faces a set of difficulties among which, the technological update, the difficulties to get involved in R & D activities, knowledge retention, global competition, collaboration between organizations through the value chain and the lack of skilled labour.
The SAMT SUDOE project started from a study of the state of the art of the plastics and mould sectors analysing the opportunities for additive manufacturing technologies of this sector. The result is a sectorial roadmap, which establishes future forecasts. On the other hand, a web platform was developed to match ideas of business projects, information and contact between entities. All these actions aimed at expanding the knowledge of SMEs about additive manufacturing and demonstrate the capabilities and applications offered by additive manufacturing technologies.
The results of the project include:
- A technological roadmap that identifies existing technologies and possible KET technologies.
- An online collaborative platform for the participation of SMEs in the development of R + D activities and collaboration between organizations through the value chain.
- Open access educational material.
- KET (Key Enabling Technologies) demonstrators to illustrate the real applications of additive manufacturing technologies.
On the other hand, SAMT SUDOE has won the Interact Slam audience award in 2019 thanks to a video based on the storytelling technique (video).
