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mitigation actions and mechanisms has been National Technical University of Athens – NTUA
implemented. On the other hand MODCOMP made the first set up of a continuous line for the
also presents the provisions taken by the con- growth of CNTs on CFs via CVD.
sortium to assure the delivery of quality results
in time and in budget. First set up of a continuous line for the growth of CNTs on CFs via CVD

Uncertainty is one of the major inherent difficul- Production of high performance fibre-based
ties in developing innovative products, due to structures will firstly focus on the de-positioning
their highly dynamic markets and technologies. of CNTs/CNFs on carbon fibre-based structures
The presence of a large degree of uncertainty using CVD method. The first set up is estab-
leads to high R&D risks, resulting in many R&D lished and the results will be presented in the
failures. Therefore, it is important to manage next Newsletter.
R&D risks through all R&D stages to improve
R&D project success rates. An important part of the project lays down to
the confirmation of the project concept accu-
The balanced scorecard is used to identify major racy. The works in this direction will be per-
performance measures of an R&D organization formed by Yuzhnoye design office - Yuzhnoye,
based on the firm vision and strategy. Quality
function deployment is adapted to transform
organizational performance measures into pro-
ject performance measures and a systematic
procedure is developed for risk identification,
assessment, response planning, and control.
Risk management framework enables an R&D
project to be focused on achieving the corpo-
rate goals and provides a more effective way to
identify, assess, analyse, and monitor R&D risks
along the project cycle.

Quality is clearly one of the key components of
the project success. The MODCOMP team aims
at acquiring the capability to improve project
implementation and assure quality end-prod-
ucts. In order to assure that quality is built into
the project, quality management is the answer,
which combines four individual steps: quality
planning, quality assurance, quality control and
quality improvement.

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