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Excellent productive and flexible Manufacturing automation for open strategic autonomy
General desciption of Excellent productive and flexible Manufacturing automation for open strategic autonomy:
- Manufacturing engineering and time-to-market of manufacturing products will be shortened by factory automation approaches, from order processing automation to the automation of difficult-to-automate-processes, in particular for low-volume production, supporting workers, technicians, engineers and developers.
- Productivity will be increased in high quality manufacturing, both on the shop floor and in engineering/business processes, addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 “Sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.
- ‘Zero-X’ smart manufacturing approaches and capabilities will be developed and deployed across value networks.
The OPTIMAL project will integrate for the first-time different laser lithography technologies, quality monitoring systems and processes in one platform for the development of structures with high depth, dimensions in the range from 100 nm to sub-mm, 2D&3D shape on flat surface, combining parallel & serial patterning, no need for external treatments on samples, increased speed and large area. The OPTIMAL consortium consists of three research institutes (JOR, ISE, ILC), one university (UPR), member of the Italian Photonics Association, three Small Medium Enterprises (MRT, DPX, HYP), two big industries, leaders in their corresponding market (SDA and BCD).