European Metrology Network for Advanced Manufacturing

Over the past decade, the European Commission has identified six key enabling technologies as fundamental for achieving success in innovation. One of these is advanced manufacturing – a new branch of manufacturing that exploits emerging knowledge and technologies to produce advanced materials and class-leading goods with minimal environmental impact.

From its potential to revolutionise the efficiency of production lines, to its ability to ensure environmental and societal sustainability; advanced manufacturing is quickly becoming an integral part of the European economy.

Advanced manufacturing requires new and enhanced metrology methods to assure the quality of manufacturing processes and the resulting products.

The objectives of the EMN are to set up a permanent stakeholder dialogue, to develop a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) on the metrology input required for advanced manufacturing technologies, to create and maintain a knowledge sharing programme and to implement a web-based service desk for stakeholders. These developments were supported by a joint network project 19NET01 Support for a European Metrology Network on advanced manufacturing within the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research.

In order to cover the variety of metrological applications along the whole manufacturing chain in advanced manufacturing, the EMN operates in three sections: (1) Advanced Materials, (2) Smart Manufacturing Systems and (3) Manufactured Components & Products.