Analysis of the Information Resources for the Furniture Industry in BIVEE

One of the most important objectives of the Business Innovation and Virtual Enterprise Environment (BIVEE) project is the management and fostering of innovation and production improvement in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This short paper presents a brief description of the key factors and the methodology followed during the analysis of the current situation of the companies selected as end-users for the BIVEE project. While BIVEE focuses on two spaces (innovation and production spaces), this short paper presents details on the production space. In this space, the furniture cluster of AIDIMA (Technology Institute of Furniture, Wood and Packaging) plays mainly the role of end-user. Due to the nature of the selected companies, the conclusions are also valid for a large number of companies from the furniture industry in Spain. Our objective is to analyse and detect problems on the current processes of the companies inside a Virtual Enterprise Environment.