Online engineering

Online engineering is a current trend in engineering and science, aiming to allow and organize a shared use of equipment and resources, but also specialized software.
Reasons for the growing importance of sharing engineering resources are:

the growing complexity of engineering tasks,
more and more specialized and expensive equipment as well as software tools and simulators,
the necessary use of expensive equipment and software tools/simulators in short-time projects,
the application of high-tech equipment also in Small and [medium enterprises|SMEs],
the need of high qualified staff to control recent equipment,
the demands of globalization and division of labor,

The International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) is an international non-profit organization with the objective of encouraging the wider development, distribution and application of online engineering. The main forum of online engineering community is the annual International Conference on [Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV)].