Automatic translation - The CIRP General Assembly will return to Pisa 22 to 28 August 2010, after 40 years from when it took place partly in Pisa and partly in Turin in 1970. In Pisa was managed by Prof. Giuseppe Carro Cao and ended with an acclaimed concert at the Cemetery. What is this? Because the event is particularly important? CIRP is the French acronym College International pour la Recherche en Productique recently and more appropriately dubbed the International Academy for Production Engineering. This is a world leader in research organization in the field of production. Founded in 1950, has a limited number of members (fellows), selected based on a demonstrated excellence in research, the CIRP currently has 550 members from academic and industrial members in 40 countries, including 140 industrial partners. In Italy there are 13 fellows, including 2 in Pisa, Professors. Santochi Marco and Gino Dini. CIRP's mission is to promote collaborative research in engineering production, contributing to growth and overall development and welfare of society through a high level of networking between eminent scientists and advanced industries. Each year in August, the CIRP holds its general assembly in a different country. Some localities in recent years were: 2004 Krakow (Poland), 2005 Antalya (Turkey), 2006 Kobe (Japan), 2007 Dresden (Germany), 2008 Manchester (United Kingdom), 2009 Boston (USA). In 2010 Italy will host the headquarters of Pisa. The entire event is one week, with a program divided into general and specific sessions for the presentation of scientific results in round tables and meetings of working groups. The organizing committee, with the roles of Chairman and Vice Chairman in the person of Profs. Santochi and Dini, has been working for about a year for a successful event, particularly organizational complexity and in need, as happened in other countries, sponsors industriali.La event will begin with a plenary session during which the leading international experts exhibit major scientific results and trends of each field of mechanical production. Ideal environment and a strong impact for participants will be the Teatro Verdi in Pisa. The rest of the event will be held at the Educational Centre of the Porta Nuova our university, with modern classrooms with excellent audiovisual services. The expected participants are numerous and come from both the academic-industrial world: the young researchers up to the high-level executives, members of the most prestigious academic and industrial Italian and international. Regarding the industrial sector and to demonstrate the interest of this area of research, just to mention a few names: Pratt & Whitney, PSA, Renault, Snecma, BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Robert Bosch Siemens, Comau, MCM, Fanuc , Hitachi, Ricoh, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Philips, SKF, Kistler, Rolls Royce, Caterpillar, General Motors, Saint Gobain, Boeing.
Ingegneria a pisa [number 12, December 2009, page 10] is the official paper and electronic newsletter of the School of Engineering of Pisa University (in Italian only, sorry).
