Masmicro Mass-Manufacture of Miniature/Micro Products

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Overview

MASMICRO Project is an EU FP6 Integrated Project, Starting from 1st July 2004. Project duration is four years.

The overall objective of the project is to develop an integrated solution for European miniature/micro-manufacturing industries - an integrated manufacturing facility for mass-manufacture of miniature/micro-products, and a technology transfer/training package for transferring the knowledge to and developing skills in industries. A multi-discipline (horizontally) and integration (vertically) approach is used for the implementation of the project. Research is being conducted to resolve individual fundamental and technological issues concerning the mass-manufacture of miniature/micro-products, with view to achieving several breakthroughs; demonstration of the mass-manufacturing facility to be developed will be subjected to validation trials and production applications; knowledge and technologies generated will directly be transferred to the targeted groups, through demonstration, training and SME take-ups programmes.

The proposed development will have impact on European economy, reflected by the reduction of manufacturing costs, increase of employment, and improved sustainable competitiveness. The development will also impact on quality of life, health, environment, safety, training and education.

MASMICRO consortium is comprised of 36 partners who provide expertise respectively in ten disciplines - Design, Materials, Mechanics, Processing Technologies, Tool/Machine Fabrication, Manufacturing Automation, Metrology, Software Development, Dissemination/Exploitation, and Project Management.

The project is managed by an experienced team with several boards being involved in decision-making - Project Co-ordination Board, Project Technical Board, Project Exploitation Board, Project Training Board and Project Advisory Board.

The project was proposed with reference to the call "FP62002-NMP-1" - "Nano-technologies and nano-sciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials, and new production processes and devices". The primary objective of this thematic area is to promote real breakthroughs, based on scientific and technical excellence. In the area "New Production Processes and Devices", the call gives emphasis on the following:

New production concepts, supporting new products, processes and services;
Industrial systems of the future (cost-effective, high quality, fault-tolerant, eco-friendly and more flexible manufacturing systems);
Transformation of the European industry towards a more knowledge-based and added value industry;
Improved competitiveness and sustainability.

MASMICRO addresses all four aspects of the objectives.

Project Structure and Components

The overall structure of the project is shown in the following diagram. The project contains components of Research and Technology Development, Innovation, Demonstration, Training and Management, which are planned as various activities. Each RTD activity is, technically, treated as a subproject which is co-ordinated by a Subproject Co-ordinator.

European Dimension / Participant List / Type of Organisation

The MASMICRO Consortium is comprised of the partners from 13 EU countries, which shows the European dimension of the project. The proposed research and development will significant impact on, not only those participating in the project, but also those who are engaged with the members of the consortium, in various business, across all these countries.

	Partner Distribution
Representing Country	IT	DE	UK	IRL	ES	GR	FR	DK	AT	SE	BE	CH	CZ
Number of Partners	2	7	8	3	4	2	1	3	2	1	1	1	1

The partners are listed in the following :

Participant Role	Participant Number	Participant Name	Participant Short Name	Country
CO	1	University of Strathclyde	STR	UK
CR	2	Abbott Vascular Devices	ABV	IRL
CR	3	Asociacion de la industria navarra	AIN	ES
CR	4	BPE International	BPE	DE
CR	5	Contour Fine Tooling Ltd	CFT	UK
CR	6	CEDRAT Technologies S.A.	CED	FR
CR	7	Gammastamp SpA	GAM	IT
CR	8	Latronics GmbH	LAT	DE
CR	9	Leister Technologies GmbH	LEI	DE
CR	10	Loadpoint Ltd.	LOA	UK
CR	11	MASMEC s.r.l.	MAS	IT
CR	12	Noliac A/S	NOL	DK
CR	13	Pinol A/S	PIN	DK
CR	14	Robotnik Automation, SLL	ROB	ES
CR	15	Camsol Ltd	SOL	IRL
CR	16	Specification Through Component	SPE	BE
CR	17	Pascoe Engineering Limited	PAS	UK
CR	18	Comtes FHT s.r.o.	COM	CZ
CR	19	Carinthian Tech Research AG	CTR	AT
CR	20	Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research	EMP	CH
CR	21	IFP Research AB	IFP	SE
CR	22 - 23 - 24	Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (ILT, IPA and IPK)	ILT, IPA and IPK	DE
CR	25	Institute for Product Development	IPU	DK
CR	26	University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork.	NMR	IRL
CR	27	Fundacion Tekniker TEK ES	TEK	ES
CR	28	Upper Austrian Research GmbH	UAR	AT
CR	29	Fachhochschule Koeln	ASC	DE
CR	30	University of Birmingham	BIM	UK
CR	31	Leeds Metropolitan University	LMU	UK
CR	32	University of Patras	PAT	GR
CR	33	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia	UPV	ES
CR	34	Tecan Limited	TEC	UK
CR	35	ANTER Ltd.	ANT	GR
CR	36	National Metal Technology Centre	NMT	UK

The type of the organisation is shown the following table:

	Type of the Organisation of the Consortium
Total Number of Partners	Industry	Research Institution	High Education	Others	Number of SME's	Number of Represented Countries
36	17	11	6	2	17	13

Contact

Please obtain the contact of each partner from the section "Partners" of this site.

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