Arthur Andersen manufacturing venture Arthur Anderson Consulting and Spanish technical and financial co-ordination company Centunion SA have set up a new group, Accent SA to offer a comprehensive assessment and development service for industrial companies starting out or updating their production systems. Formation of the group was prompted by the fact that many industrial modernisation programmes fail due to a lack of efficient integration of management and technology. At present Spain is relatively undeveloped in production process automation in Europe, but plans for the future indicate that investments in computer-integrated manufacturing will grow 30% annually over the next few years, taking it to $4,300m by 1992.
