The goal of the conference is to demonstrate that the development of enterprises, acceptation of new technologies, new strategies of organizations and the protection of intellectual property have the key influence on the growth of the productivity and improvement of the competitiveness of economy.

The topics of the conference include the wide range of issues related to the complex investment and restructuring projects, design and manufacturing process planning systems, and design and usage of manufacturing equipment.

These include:

• project management in the phase of the preparation and start-up of the production for highly innovative products;
• integration of knowledge in the computer systems for process planningand management, models of knowledge representations, databases;
• use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Knowledge Based System (KBS);
• organization of business processes in manufacturing environment – clusters and technological platforms;
• methods and tools for the product quality supervision;
• methods for the development of innovative solutions;
• the protection of intellectual properties (especially of industrial type) during technology transfer.