On January 31st, 2007, the European Centre for Soft Computing (ECSC) organized the first Technological Forum, where a large group of businessmen from automotive industry and experts from R+D centres met. The forum confirmed that the application of soft computing techniques in the automotive sector is being very active, in view of the large number and variety of solutions already implemented by many companies worldwide and the promising field of application still open. More locally, the forum helped to bring together different research centres and the companies of the sector in Asturias, showing the real possibility of interaction in order to solve problems of interest for the latter, such as optimization of production systems based on assembly lines, or control and diagnosis of failures and components reliability.

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