The research program includes 4 sub-programs:
3D printing meets microsystems
- Heterogeneous integration, i.e. integration of classical and advanced manufacturing
- Assemblyless micromechanism
- Tailoring local material properties
- Precision 3D printing
Computer-assisted manufacturing
- Desing for advanced manufacturing
- Bionic design, i.e. topology optimization
- Virtual prototyping
- Multiscale, multiphysics modeling
Socioeconomics impacts of advanced manufacturing
- Business model
- Intellectual property management
- Sustainability manufacturing
- Circular economy
Smart factory
- Supply chain
- Collaborative robotic
- Predictive maintenance
- Control, automation
- Cyber-physical systems
- Big data, process analysis
- Micro-factory