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Recovering and preserving the European leadership in strategic and high value added products
General desciption of Recovering and preserving the European leadership in strategic and high value added products:
- Europe needs to increase the knowledge and manufacturing capabilities to design and produce sophisticated and high quality products that are essential for the European economy and society. This includes in particular products that are key for sustainable and renewable energy generation and storage, such as solar panels, batteries, hydrogen solutions, e-fuels solutions, sustainable mobility, wind energy solutions and critical machinery components that save energy consumption.
- While operating in synergy with initiatives that focus on the design and engineering of such (green-tech) key products and solutions, the Made in Europe Partnership will focus on key manufacturing technologies that Europe needs in order to be a manufacturing leader in strategic sectors.
- All levels needs to be addressed: process, machine, production line, plant and value network level, product design, covering material shaping and processing as well as advanced automation and digitalisation approaches, including re-manufacturing capabilities and digital product passport implementation.
Comment:
Europe (in general) is a higher cost economic region. In a time of turbulence and global rising inflationary pressures, our historic growth strategy is growing through exports. We cannot survive in a race to the bottom (based solely on price), but need to support our manufactured product proposition, via an increase in the innovation built into that manufactured product. When people talk about the need to digitize, they are generally referring to either the production process or the resultant product. The only reason you would wish to digitize a product (make it smarter) is to add value for the customer and/or sell an additional service. These are by definition ‘high value added products’. Its imperative to the future of manufacturing sector on this continent that we focus in that sector of the manufactured goods.