Partners

DaimlerChrysler AG

Location: Germany
Homepage: http://www.daimlerchrysler.com

DaimlerChrysler is unique in the automotive industry: The product portfolio ranges from small cars to sports cars and luxury sedans; and from versatile vans to heavy duty trucks or comfortable coaches. The company offers financial and other automotive services through DaimlerChrysler Financial Services. With 382,724 employees, DaimlerChrysler achieved revenues of EUR 149.8 billion in 2005. The company has production sites in 34 countries. In EUCAM, production sites in Germany, France, Spain, Turkey and the U.S. are participating. The Mannheim site is the largest production site in DaimlerChrysler´s utility vehicle division and therefore will take the lead within EUCAM. DaimlerChrysler is the coordinator of the EUCAM project and content provider / partner for manufacturing issues. The company will test project results and contribute to the implementation of process oriented learning and continuing education in Europe.

European Metalworker’s Federation

Location: Belgium
Homepage: http://www.emf-fem.org
www.emf-fem.org/projects/other_projects

The European Metalworkers Federation is the umbrella organisation representing 65 metalworkers' unions from 30 countries with a combined total of 6.5 Million affiliates. The EMF acts on behalf of representative metalworkers' unions from all the Member States of the European Union as well as from European countries, which have not yet joined the EU, and also those from the candidate countries. The EMF is therefore the representative body defending the interests of workers in the European metal industry. The EMF advocates a social Europe characterised by democracy, freedom, social justice and solidarity. The EMF contributes to EUCAM as a vocational education expert. Furthermore the EMF will deliver and support the production of content by reflecting ergonomical as well as structural questions.

Infoman Infomationsmanagement GmbH

Location: Germany
Homepage: http://www.infoman-systeme.de

Infoman Group is a software and consulting group. It provides "customer care solutions" to its customers. The company was founded in 1992. The customer base comprises top 50 corporations as well as medium sized companies in Germany. Most of the income is generated by industrial project contracts. However, there is an increasing share generated through services and product licensing. As a software company Infoman engages in tool development. This includes prototyping and finalising products based on highly interactive systems by applying Web and CTI technologies. Infoman will contribute to the EUCAM project with a focus upon implementation and integration work and technical localisation. Assist in the process of designing of the tools in cooperation with the users. As technical coordinator infoman coordinates work in implementation and integration of the learning backbone system.

Language Technology Centre Ltd.

Location: United Kingdom
Homepage: http://www.langtech.co.uk

LTC was formed in 1992 in London and specialises as language technology product and multilingual service provider. LTC is one of the very few highly specialised organisations that operate both as software house and and translation service provider. This means that LTC offers total solutions for a wide variety of multilingual requirements. The company pioneered implementations of the commercial use of translation memory technology as early as 1994, and trained corporate users and translators in this technology. LTC then designed the first business information management system for the language industry - well known today as LTC Organiser across the world. LTC's new generation multilingual business information system - LTC Worx - will be released in October 2006. A new version of LTC's linguistic processing system LTC Communicator is currently being designed. LTC receives EU funds for research and development projects, market studies and trials. Due to a growing customer base in the USA, LTC established an office in Washington DC in 2005. Within the EUCAM project, LTC provides and adapts multilingual technology and trasnlation / software localisation services.

Interview with Dr. Adriane Rinsche (English)
Interview mit Dr. Adriane Rinsche (Deutsch)

Dekra Akademie GmbH

Location: Germany
Homepage: http://www.dekra-akademie.de

DEKRA is Europe's largest technical service organization and Number 3 worldwide. Headquartered in Stuttgart, we are active in about 30 countries in Europe, North and South America and Africa. We are organized into 4 Business Units comprising a total of 55 consolidated companies. The DEKRA Akademie GmbH – a wholly-owned subsidiary of DEKRA AG – has been one of Germany's largest private providers of continuing professional and vocational training for over 25 years, with more than 75 training centers nationwide. Our intensive interaction with industry, participants and the Federal Labor Agency ensures a deep insight into training and market needs and the optimization of our training offerings. We are the primary author of the Market Study but also contributes to skills requirements identification, infrastructure and field testing and implementation.

EDAG Hungary Kft.

Location: Hungary
Homepage: http://www.edag.com

EDAG Engineering + Design AG establishment Hungary is supplier and service provider for automotive industry in the Eastern European culture area. Special contributions of EDAG:

• Input for academic and vocational education, as well as for learning behaviors of industrial workers in Hungary.
• EDAG as supplier for automotive industry develops the scope of information which can be provided by suppliers for application in production learning systems, main focus is on design and engineering data from the early product development process and on technical documentation. EDAG regards the process of information preparation and transfer and localizes it for the Hungarian industrial environment.

UAB LKSoft Baltic

Location: Lithuania
Homepage: http://www.lksoft.lt

LKSoft Baltic is the software development resource branch for the LKSoft organization (www.lksoft.com). The focus is on tools and applications around the international STEP standard (ISO 10303) on industrial product data. LKSoft chooses the Java programming language to implement STEP and is worldwide leading in this segment. To be able to offer top implementations LKSoft is for meanwhile 10 years actively participating in the STEP standardization within the ISO TC4/SC184 team and a member of the industry consortium PDES Inc./USA. Within the EUCAM project LKSoft is mapping Training Data requirements to STEP and develop a powerful editor for this. The goal is neutral exchange of Training Data between suppliers and OEMs.

Industriegewerkschaft Metall

Location: Germany
Homepage: http://www.igmetall.de

IG Metall is a democratic organisation of metalworkers in Germany. Membership is voluntary. The local organisations are the basic units of the overall structure. Workers are often faced with difficult situations, in which they need effective expert advice. A strong trade union protects them against arbitrary decisions taken by employers and from the vicissitudes of working life. IG Metall can help its members by offering various benefits. Collective bargaining is one of the trade unions most important tasks. It is a means of ensuring that workers receive an equitable share of the national product. IG Metall contributes to EUCAM as a vocational education expert. Furthermore, IG Metall delivers and supports the production of content by reflecting ergonomical as well as structural questions.

Interview mit Dr. Michael Ehrke (Deutsch)