Abstract
Advanced manufacturing has been identified as one of the key enabling technologies with applications in multiple industries. The growing importance of advanced manufacturing is reflected by an increased number of publications on this topic in recent years. Advanced manufacturing requires new and enhanced metrology methods to assure the quality of manufacturing processes and the resulting products. However, a high-level coordination of the metrology community is currently absent in this field and consequently this limits the impact of metrology developments on advanced manufacturing. In this article we introduce the new European Metrology Network (EMN) for Advanced Manufacturing within EURAMET, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (NMIs). The EMN is intended to be operated sustainably by NMIs and Designated Institutes in close cooperation with stakeholders interested in advanced manufacturing. The objectives of the EMN are to set up a permanent stakeholder dialogue, to develop a Strategic Research Agenda for the metrology input required for advanced manufacturing technologies, to create and maintain a knowledge sharing programme and to implement a web-based service desk for stakeholders. The EMN development is supported by a Joint Network Project within the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research.
Highlights
In this article we introduce the new European Metrology Network (EMN) for Advanced Manufacturing within EURAMET, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (NMIs)
The objectives of the EMN are to set up a permanent stakeholder dialogue, to develop a Strategic Research Agenda for the metrology input required for advanced manufacturing technologies, to create and maintain a knowledge sharing programme and to implement a web-based service desk for stakeholders
This paper presented the first approaches of the Joint Network Project (JNP) to support the EMN for Advanced Manufacturing
Summary
The importance of measurements has been highlighted by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in his famous statement ‘I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be [1]’. EURAMET, the European Association of NMIs, states ‘Our mission is to develop and disseminate an integrated, cost effective and internationally competitive measurement infrastructure for Europe. This mission always considers the needs of industry, business and governments. We focus on the key enabling technologies (KETs), definitions of advanced manufacturing, an analysis of recently published relevant research results with a focus on the identified needs of metrology and existing coordination. The European Commission (EC) has identified KETs as the basis for innovation in 2009 [9]: ‘KETs are a group of six technologies: micro and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, advanced materials, photonics, and advanced manufacturing technologies. This will be achieved by accelerating the development of innovative metrology methods focused on the needs of advanced manufacturing and optimising stakeholder interaction with the metrology community
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