"ICM e.V. and its member firms are working on new strategies and methods for developing cooperative ventures between small and medium-sized firms, particularly in the following tasks:

• industrial-based product development

• shaping system-supplier structures to implement innovative product ideas in Saxony

• increasing the regional volume of orders and creating new jobs / safeguarding existing ones by setting up value-added chains in Saxony

• utilizing synergies in regional company alliances

• improving products through cooperation between end producers, system suppliers, and lower-ranking suppliers"