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MECHANICAL VIRTUAL CLUSTER<a href="/htdocs/Sharing/Mechanic/The-mechanics-supply-chain.txt_cvt.htm">Click here to view the model</a>&lt;img hspace="10" src="/files/02005200516.14.46-meccanica2.7dvd" align="right" border="0" />Mechanics plays a central role within the wide range of all the manufacturing activities. This is due because both of the relevance of its own productions and the linkages that the mechanic sector itself has with a variety of other economic activities. In 2000, the Italian mechanic sector produced more than 27% of the turnover of all the manufacturing productions. On the other hand, mechanics enters several other productive sectors both by providing other Industries with machineries and tools for their productions, and by making available for these sectors high-tech solutions and devices that increase the competitiveness and rend more innovative the whole industrial productive process. Because of the wide variety of its productions, it is complicated to give a unique and precise definition of the mechanics sector. (Read the <a href="/htdocs/Sharing/Mechanic/The-mechanics-supply-chain.txt_cvt.htm">complete article</a>) </PRE>