今天的现代产品是在世界上不同的地方生产的，这取决于经济、劳动力的可用性和市场准入。这种国际化生产需要具有坚实文化底蕴的制造工程师，以及对不同文化的宽容。通过来自不同国家的大学研究中心之间的合作，促进对这些人的培训。本文回顾了一个这样的例子，斯图加特大学的金属成形研究所，密歇根理工大学和俄亥俄州立大学的净形状制造工程研究中心之间的合作。

Today's modern products are manufactured at different locations in the world as determined by economics, availability of labor, and access to markets. Such international production requires manufacturing engineers with a solid cultural, and tolerance for different cultures. Training such individuals is facilitated through cooperation between university research centers from different countries. This paper reviews one such example, cooperation between the Metal Forming Institute of the University of Stuttgart, the Michigan Technological University and the Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing of the Ohio State University.