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Plastiasite S.A.
C/Ceramistes 2
Parc tecnològic del Vallès
08290 – Cerdanyola del Vallès
Barcelona (SPAIN)

Phone: +34 935 944 739
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Research and Development Lines

Research & Development is a risky activity. We like risk!

Currently we are tracking four basic R&D lines. This categorization responds to a first level of specialization from which many limbs and branches emerge. Most of the times, research involves crossed efforts and synergies between them. Plastia often relays on other research centers (universities and technology centers) for ensuring the provision of cutting edge results and technologies. One of our science-based principles is “not reinvent the wheel” but “make it rounder”.

  1. Knowledge Engineering
  2. Collavorative Environments
  3. Web Enabling of Services
  4. WiFi for Industrial Processes

Knowledge Engineering

  • Knowledge acquisition from the workflow. Particularly in those complex processes involving high doses of decision making. Explicit knowledge will lead to rule-based reasoning and tacit knowledge will be captured with case-based reasoning. We pay special attention to expert knowledge acquired by long trial-error history. This R&D line is a first step towards process automatization in sectors with high dependence on workmanship.
  • Sectorial knowledge mapping. Specially interested in objective detection of reputed expertise and gaps of knowledge. Social knowledge networks have arisen as an interesting and useful analysis to this end.
  • Knowledge management. Far from philosophy, we bet on a practical approach specially oriented to SMEs contour conditions.

Collaborative Environments

  • Computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). Supply chain is made of collaborative workflow. Applications must match this strong and obvious requirement and web allows a natural medium to solve it. Yesterday, CSCW was an opportunity; today it’s a necessity.
  • Collaborative knowledge. CSCW is an extremely useful tool for extracting and enriching knowledge. Unlike consumer goods, knowledge improve with usage and transferring.
  • Knowledge engineering in collaborative environments. Managers can obtain worthy knowledge when analyzing the behavior of their resources in CSCW. Social networks and case-based reasoning provide a useful tool for support decision in project oriented CSCW.

Web Enabling of Services

  • Server-based computing. Performance requirements of applications increase as bandwidth of the Internet does. There exists always a window where bandwidth is enough to ensure all the needed functionalities and the advantages (accessibility...) compensate the disadvantages (response time...).
  • Application service providing (ASPing). Once in a while classical software licenses fail (buying expensive soft to be used in a short time project). Internet provide a really good solution in these cases (rental vs. buying). But the business model supporting this new trends sometimes are not easy to define, specially when several independent software providers coexists in the same platform.
  • Sectorial ASPing. As a particular case of previous point, when a great number of SMEs share the same software needs, ASPing could be the most cost-efficient manner possible.

WiFi for Industrial Processes


Wireless Fidelity allows PDA integration in the supply chain workflow:
  • production planning
  • CAD visualization
  • logistics
  • product validation
  • admin intranets