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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.
The OPTIMAL platform will be validated through the manufacturing of master tools for four different use cases: a) full-polymer micro lenses for industrial optics, b) hierarchical multifunctional drag reduction riblet structures for aviation, c) free-form lens arrays for high-end virtual reality displays and d) microfluidic hierarchical structures for lab on chip medical devices.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).