Support for a European Metrology Network on advanced manufacturing

Short Name: AdvManuNet, Project Number: 19NET01
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Various digitalisation concepts propose transformative improvements to production quality and efficiency, thereby boosting the competitiveness of Europe’s manufacturing industries. While overall production quality has improved in recent decades, the cost of quality issues still equates to between 5 and 40 % of total sales. Concepts like Industry 4.0, that combine automation and data exchange within manufacturing technologies and processes, offer new opportunities for innovation, including for emerging sectors such as additive manufacturing and nanotechnology. Here, production decisions would become reliant on measurement data that will need to be traceable and comparable for these decisions to be fully capable of trust. However, input from the metrology community has so far been insufficient to ensure certainty, prompting the formation of the Advanced European Metrology Network (AdvManuNet) to enhance interactions between metrology and stakeholder communities.

 

The project will help develop the future network, promote dialogue between stakeholders, and plan for its sustained operation. In the lifetime of the project, a dialogue with important stakeholders will be nurtured, a Strategic Research Agenda and roadmaps published, knowledge-sharing developed, and plans made for a European metrology infrastructure in advanced manufacturing. By its conclusion, these measures will have accelerated the potential for uptake of innovative metrology serving the needs of advanced manufacturing, will have supported employment opportunities and skills, and opened up new ways for European manufacturers to compete globally.

 

Project website
Publications
Progress of the European Metrology Network for Advanced Manufacturing
2022

Proceedings 22nd euspen International Conference and Exhibition

AdvManuNet: Support for a European Metrology Network for Advanced Manufacturing
2021

Proceedings 21st euspen International Conference and Exhibition

New European Metrology Network for Advanced Manufacturing
2021

Measurement Science and Technology

AdvManuNet: a networking project on metrology for advanced manufacturing
2020

Proceedings 20th euspen International Conference and Exhibition

Other Participants
EUSPEN - EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (United Kingdom)
Politecnico di Torino (Italy)