Cloud Management Tools for Sustainable SMEs

The purpose of this present work is to share the new developments of manufacturing support services. They are based on a set of tools available and accessible through Internet, and mainly oriented to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This set of manufacturing and business tools is comprised of three main streams: Computer-aided engineering (CAE) software packages, a Product Life Cycle (PLM) tool, and an Open Innovation (OI) platform. These services are the output of the CloudPyme2 project (CPP2). It has the main goal of providing innovation tools for product development and manufacturing processes to SMEs in a sustainable and affordable way. This project provides these tools as an infrastructure using Cloud Services, including High Performance Computing (HPC), hosting platforms, support services and training. This new platform allows SMEs to improve their products and processes, or create new ones, in an affordable and efficient way.