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Rijeka<br />

Banja Luka<br />

B&H<br />

MEF (CEVIP)<br />

SRB<br />

Kragujevac<br />

MNE<br />

800<br />

700<br />

VMnet statistics<br />

Podgorica<br />

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FYROM<br />

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EU Links<br />

WBC Links<br />

VMnet Links<br />

In line with idea of network knowledge and transfer technologies, Centre for Virtual Manufacturing has<br />

established Virtual Manufacturing Network – VMnet as efficient industrial-science link, which has already<br />

more than 800 members (large companies, SMEs, R&D organizations, NGO, Agencies for SMEs, entrepreneurs,<br />

experts, managers, engineers, researchers, students etc.)<br />

During the last year VMnet has increased number of members from other WBC (Bosnia and Herzegovina,<br />

Croatia, Montenegro and FYR Macedonia) within WBC-VMnet TEMPUS project realization.<br />

Network gathers 13 experts from area of production technologies, materials, information technologies,<br />

software development, numerical FE/FV simulation of production processes, rapid prototyping, reverse<br />

engineering, design and marketing, who offer support for companies in their R&D activities to implement<br />

new technologies, thus improving their competitiveness on the global market. Apart from expertise offered<br />

within VMnet, by this network enterprises would get quality, timely and inexpensive development cycle and<br />

may optimize the existing products and processes, as precondition for increasing of competitiveness on<br />

increasingly requiring market.<br />

Development and broadening of the network is helped by R&D organizations, SMEs, companies, Regional<br />

agencies for development of SMEs, Chambers of commerce, resource Ministries and all other institutions<br />

that find interest for joint actions. VMnet members are being updated and informed through e-mail about<br />

the latest news on important events, electronic brochures and magazines, useful links on manufacturers of<br />

equipment and software etc. In that way they have access to information on the latest achievements in the<br />

area of virtual technologies, in order for them to improve their knowledge and gain new skills, useful for<br />

doing business at their companies.<br />

New WBC model of university-enterprise <strong>cooperation</strong> 6

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