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Additive manufacturing
- Innovative physical, chemical and physicochemical processes
- Photonics-based materials processing technologies
- Shaping technology for difficult to shape materials
- Replication, Equipment for flexible scalable prod/Assembly , Coatings
- Methods for handling of parts, metrology and inspection
- Integration of non-conventional technologies and conventional technologies
- High productivity and “self assembly” technologies development of conventional (joining, forming, machining) and new micro/nano-manufacturing processes
- Flexible Sheet-to-Sheet (S2S) and Roll-to-Roll (R2R)
- Recycling processes
- From Product/Services Systems (product centric approach) to Services through Product (solution oriented approach)
- From delocalisation to Globalisation 2.0 (re-shoring)
- Innovation
- From User-centric design to user well-being design
- Virtualisation and digitalisation of the interrelation between manufacturing and new business models