Manufacturing
Advanced production & process technologies, factories of the future
Background
The Manufacturing Helix was amongst the first tranche of Helix communities launched by Crowdhelix in early 2013. The Helix is led by the world-leading research organisation Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology (Fraunhofer IWU).
Scope
Closely intertwined with the activities of several other Helixes; including Materials, Digital, Energy, & Circular Plastics, the Manufacturing Helix provides an Open Innovation platform for experts seeking international collaborators to carry out manufacturing-related research and innovation in the following areas:
- Smart manufacturing & processing
- Factories of the Future
- Sustainable Process Industries (“SPIRE”)
- Additive manufacturing
- Industrial robotics
- Nano-Fabrication
- Resource-efficient production
- Materials processing
- Digitalization in manufacturing
- AI-application in manufacturing
At the EU level, several of these topics are aggregated within the overarching “Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing” (“NMBP”) Work Programmes, and many are considered Key Enabling Technologies, which play a particularly decisive role in determining Europe’s global competitiveness.
Policy
One of the European Union’s strategic aims for the industrial sector includes the application of Open Innovation and Open Science principles to manufacturing research & innovation, including for upscaling, characterisation, modelling, and safety. Crowdhelix intends to align its own activities in support of this endeavour by helping to provide the widest possible access to collaborators across the many sectors involved in the global manufacturing innovation ecosystem.
Andreea Petrea
“The key challenge for Manufacturing is to produce customizable products in a 100 % fair and sustainable way. I am excited to lead the Manufacturing Helix towards making this vision reality.”
Mario Lorenz
Organisations
Fraunhofer IWU
Resources
Latest Opportunities
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CUCrowdhelix UserNovember 27, 2020 16:59 in Climate, Materials, Manufacturing
Looking for wind turbine manufacturer to invite to a consortium looking at recycling of composites for the Green Deal
Can act as:- Work Package Leader
- Consortium Partner
- Wind energy
- Wind turbines
- Composites
- Waste recycling
LC-GD-3-2-2020Demonstration of systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy
DeadlineJanuary 26, 2021
Project Type- IA Innovation action
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NRNick Rousseau for Unconventional ConnectionsNovember 18, 2020 12:46 in Energy, Climate, Manufacturing
Seeking UK based partners with technologies to support GHG reduction in industry/businesses in India
Can act as:- Coordinator
- Energy efficiency in industry
- Green chemistry
- Solar energy
- Green and integrated transport
- Energy efficiency buildings
- Cloud computing
- Wind energy
- Carbon capture
- Big data in energy
- Assisting energy management
- Green & integrated transport
- Energy storage systems
- Clean & secure energy
- Carbon footprint
- Carbon capture and utilisation
- Carbon capture and storage ccs
- Green building
- Carbon neutrality
- Energy reduction
Unconventional Connections and Finovista are scoping out for FCDO/DIT/Science and Innovation Network India the potential for UK companies and researchers...
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