CATN is a pan-European federation of firms, all of which are specialists in the manufacturing and engineering industries. It was founded in 1988 by Cambashi, Gepro (Aachen), MT Consulting (Paris), Databank Consulting (Milan), CVT Consultores (Madrid) and Stanek Consulting (Zurich). Today, with offices in most EC countries and the USA, and an associate company in Japan, CATN employs more than 100 consultants, including engineers, economists, scientists and managers, whose research and operations have been systematised to provide consistency and integrity across international boundaries.

All CATN member companies work to the same high standards, providing management and marketing consultancy that enable their clients to achieve sound business success. Each is a leader in its own right. As a combined force, the complementary services offered by its members make the CATN federation Europe's foremost group of experts on the markets IT.

CATN and its member companies aim to provide:

Innovation in sales and marketing for IT suppliers
Action oriented management/marketing consultancy to assist vendors in developing innovative sales and marketing programmes that provide meaningful answers to their customers' questions and take a realistic approach to their day-to-day IT requirements. We have undertaken work involving up to 20 European countries in a single project.

Ideas and solutions for manufacturing and engineering
Management consultancy to help manufacturers and engineers make real improvements in their procedures in order to achieve tangible business advantage. This work includes reviews of business structures and procedures, distribution and logistics management, and technology issues such as the introduction of a new corporate IT solution.

Information and analysis for government
Many CATN members provide expert advice to government agencies on the best and most appropriate applications of IT, and frequently manage projects for national and European government agencies. They also provide national contact points for European Commission projects such as Technologies for Business Processes (TBP) and Integration in Manufacturing (IiM).

Our Domains of Expertise
We research and maintain Europe's most advanced body of information on best practice in the production industries, discrete manufacturing, the process industries, the utilities and conservation. We also have special experience of leading edge technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS), integrated engineering systems (IES) and product modelling.

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