Traduction de «Integrating new products in manufacturing » (Anglais → Français) :

Innovation can result from the transformation of knowledge, a new idea or a technological breakthrough to improve or create new business or manufacturing products, services or processes.

As a preventive approach, designed to optimise the environmental performance of products, while maintaining their functional qualities, it provides genuine new opportunities for manufacturers, for consumers and for society as a whole.

From the research and development side, I think we could work on productivity issues based on manufacturing techniques, using new technologies for manufacturing products cheaper, faster, at lower manpower costs, with just-in-time technology, and so on.

- Engineering support for materials development: The objective is to bridge the gap from "knowledge production" to "knowledge use", thus overcoming the EU industry's weaknesses in the integration of materials and manufacturing.

The development of flexible, integrated and clean production systems will also require a substantial research effort concerning the application of new technologies to manufacturing and management.

The preparation and monitoring of other integrated development operations will go forward. - With the changes under way in the common agricultural policy the Commission will submit in 1988 a wide ranging report on the future of the countryside. - Efforts to increase the involvement of both sides of industry in economic and social policy will be intensified. - An action programme to provide the reintegration of the long term unemployed will be presented; the 1988-92 action programme for the vocational training of young people and their preparation for adult life will be launched; and a programme for 1989-91 on the continuing in- service ...[+++] training of employees will come forward. - There will be new proposals on health and safety at work, consistently with the new article 118 A of the Single European Act; a Community system for rapid exchange of information on health, safety and hygiene will be proposed. - Action will be proposed to improve the condition of women at work, including the implementation of the 1986-90 programme on improving the social conditions of migrant women; and a second programme on the integration of the handicapped will be put into effect. - The Commission will put forward a whole series of measures to improve the legal environment for small businesses (simplification of accounting requirements, taxation etc) and will actively develop the initiatives started in 1987 (in particular, the expansion of Euro Info Centres, Europartnership between businesses in different regions; and about 120 Business and Innovation Centres will be set up in 1988). - 4 - - In the technology field new programmes will be prepared in the areas of preventive medicine, the environment, the follow-through of R and D results, new transport technologies, new technologies in manufacturing industry (new BRITE programme), new materials, non-nuclear energy, the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, marine science and technology and on agriculture.