This paper describes a case study of the results extracted from the research done in recent EU-projects on current and best practices for maintaining and optimizing Virtual Enterprises (VE). It is based on the example of a VirtualEnterprise practiced by German small and medium enterprises (SME) operating in the field of rapid prototyping (RP) and modelling within the automotive sector.
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