Prioritisation of critical machinery components against renewable energy and storage that are covered in other clusters (and partnerships) in HE.

Optimisation of industrial advanced processes for new raw materials and products is a major driver for innovation in EU industries that it is not well reflected in this priorities list.

Bigger focuss on innovative business models, servitisation business approaches and multi-stakeholder trust-building solutions would be desirable to differentiate from HE 2021-2024 topics.

Complementarity with CL4 topics needs to be clarified (Resilience, mainly).

Bigger attenttion not only on critical but on strategic raw materials would be desirable.

Energy efficiency is already being tackled through almost every topic related with process optimisation, i.e. it does not justified a specific and isolated topic. This ambition is critical in continuous production (PP4P partnership) while in discrete manufacturing is not that strategic, in contrast with resources consumption efficiency, yield and productivity.

We see some redundancies with already presented priorities (e.g. “sustainable value networks..” , “circular, connected manufacturing ecosystems”) while the priority approach is relevant.

Cloud/edge integration of solutions in the manufacturing environment could provide a huge impact in manufacturing digitisation.

We recomend to explicitily mention emboddied robotics as well as human-centric AI solutions.

Partially overlap with CL4 HUMAN destination. Possible merging with "Physical augmentation…" would be desirable.

Collision with CBE, CL6 & CL1. Expansion of bio-intelligent manufacturing towards bio-inspired products (emboddied robotics, bio-inpired product design, bio-based materials processing…) would be desirable to gain industry ecosystem traction.