Manufacturing industries must face up to wide spreading competition, requirements, more stringent quality and traceability harsher economical and environmental constraints.

Today, new technologies can help fulfilling these requirements. They provide enhanced performances, which stand far beyond classical process control capabilities.

Advanced Automation has a direct positive impact on process optimisation, control, prediction, dectection and modeling ; it results ultimately in improved company profitability and competitiveness.

In such a context, the Advantic Forum aims at creating a synergy by sharing experiences and transferring know-hows between manufacturers, services providers, academic experts and training instructors.