The size of the companies, the main barrier in the digital transformation

Under the title "Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Additive Manufacture", the Second Digital Expert Forum, held at the Official College of Industrial Engineers as an office accelerates SME (OAP) online, addressed the incidence that these technologies have in the transformationdigital and in the competitiveness of companies.

The offices accelerates SMEs put in place throughout Spain by Red.It is public entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, they have a global budget of 8 million euros, of which Red.is contributes 6.3 and the beneficiary entities the rest.The actions are co-financed with Feder funds of the European Union, within the framework of the Plurirregional Operational Program of Spain Feder 2014-2020 (Pope), under the slogan "a way of making Europe".

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El tamaño de las empresas, principal barrera en la transformación digital

During the debate, moderated by Julio Monreal, director of Institutional Relations of Levante-EMV, Pablo Martínez, CEO of Applied Global Engineering (IGA), explained that “the digital transformation is being applied very notably in large companies, but sometimesThe price of data and processes acquisition systems is being an entry barrier for the small SME ».

For his part, the Director of Technology of Mesbook, Pablo Rodríguez, stressed that in the Community the digital transformation is being addressed «with some caution, due to ignorance, and for its large percentage of companies of family origin, with a lower weight of executivesprofessionalized than in other areas ».

This second debate forum is part of the accelerates SME project that, with a duration of 24 months since June 2021, has marked the objective of promoting, for free and in all types of companies, the digital transformation of SMEs, autonomous and entrepreneurs.

For the Dean of the COIICV, Salvador Puigdengolas, "with this project we want to help any company, regardless of its size to have the information, advice and tools necessary to address the digital transformation process".

Therefore, "to achieve this we have the best experts in digital transformation, the best tools and open a wide range of personalized advice in which to address the particular cases of each company in order to accompany them at all times in the digitalization process", highlighted the president of the Coiicv-Valencia, Nieves Romero.

Finally, this debate also served to explain what is the impact of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing in digital transformation."Additive manufacturing is a technology with an increasing impact that allows you to position itself on two large fronts, such as product customization or mass customization and is also beginning to compete with other industrial processes for short runs," said the head of the groupof Aimplas Engineering, Susana Otero.