The University of Nottingham is a research-led UK university with over 27,000 registered students, around 1,830 academic and research staff and an annual income of over 280 million pounds, including research awards of around 90 million pounds. In 2006 the University was the winner of The Times Higher Education Institution of the Year Award.  The School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (M3) has a long history of successful research collaboration with industry, and was recently awarded the status of Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). The Precision Manufacturing Group has a significant experience in different aspects of precision machining and assembly, with a number of current research projects including FP6 EUPASS, VERDI and AFFIX, and the EPSRC-funded 3D-Mintegration.  Members of the group have also been instrumental in setting up the new Centre of Excellence in Customised Assembly (CECA), a joint project with the universities of Loughborough and Sheffield.

 

Contact Persons:
• Svetan Ratchev (svetan.ratchev at nottingham.ac.uk)

• Joel Segal (joel.segal at nottingham.ac.uk)

• Ruth Strickland (ruth.strickland at nottingham.ac.uk)

Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, Cardiff University is one of Britain’s major teaching and research universities, with 25,000 students and 5,500 staff. It is located in capital city of Wales and encompasses the humanities; the natural, physical, health, life and social sciences; engineering and technology. The 90-strong Manufacturing Engineering Centre forms part of Cardiff University and includes major research activities in micro and nano-manufacturing.

 

 

Contact Person:
• Mauro Onori (onori at iip.kth.se)

• Pieter Bolt (pieter_jan.bolt at tno.nl)

• Markus Dickerhof (markus.dickerhof at iai.fzk.de)

• Jean-Pierre Dan (jean-pierre.dan at csem.ch)

• Reijo Tuokko (reijo.tuokko at .tut.fi)

The CEA (Atomic Energy Commission) is a French Governmental Research Organisation with 15,000 employees devoted to both fundamental and industrial R&D. The CEA is active in three main fields : Energy, information and health technologies, and defense and national security. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. Within its Division for Technological Research one of the main targets is to develop new nano-structured materials for renewable energies and new technologies for information and communication with the µ-fabrication processes.

 

Contact persons:

• Bertrand FILLON (bertrand.fillon at cea.fr)
• Etienne BOUYER (etienne.bouyer at cea.fr)

• Yves Hussenot (yves.hussenot at cea.fr )

• Markus Keller (markus.keller at ipa.fraunhofer.de)

TEKNIKER specialises in manufacturing technologies, i.e. all areas concerned with products, processes, production machinery, handling and all-round management of product life-cycle and its optimization. Micro-manufacturing and precision engineering are some of our most oustanding capabilities. The Microtechnologies Department has the finest set of ultra-precision and micro-manufacturing equipment in Spain and it is staffed by people trained at the most renowned European centres of excellence

 

• Sabino Azcarate (sazcarate at tekniker.es)

• Aitor Alzaga (aalzaga at tekniker.es)

• Steffen Behnke (steffen.behnke at de.bosch.com)

Festo is a leading global manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for industrial automation, with more than 11,500 employees in
56 national headquarters serving more than 180 countries.
For more than 80 years, Festo has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performance, more profitable automated manufacturing equipment.
Our dedication to the advancement of automation extends beyond technology to the education of current and future automation and robotics designers with simulation tools, teaching programs, and on-site services.

 

• Christoph Hanisch (dha at festo.com)

• Metin Giousouf (gio at festo.com)

• Paul Kirby (p.b.kirby at cranfield.ac.uk)

The University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) is involved  in   the Microsapient via its Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management.

The Department has assembled  excellent experts who have achieved international status in research in those three areas and have excellent track records in attracting EU, National and industrial funds. The Precision Engineering and Micro-Manufacturing Research Group researches and develops processes, tools, machinery and numerical modelling techniques for improving the economic and technical performance of metal conversion technologies (Precision manufacture at macro-, meso- and micro-scales).  It is currently also co-ordinating the EU fp6 Integrated Project in MASMICRO ("Integration of Manufacturing Systems for the Mass-Manufacture of Miniature/Micro-Products", http://www.masmicro.net/).  

 

Contact person:

• Yi Qin (qin.yi at strath.ac.uk)

• Hans Loeschner (hans.loeschner at ims.co.at)

ITIA-CNR, as a promoter of industrial innovation, performs strategic activities of Scientific Research and Technological Development for the Competitiveness and Sustainability of Italian and European Manufacturing Industries.
The institute is part of the Department for Production Systems of the Italian National Research Council.
ITIA-CNR acts in tight collaboration with Enterprises, Universities, Research Centers and Institutions within National, European and International Programmes, Projects and Industrial Contracts.
In particular, METIS Laboratory focuses on the strategic domain of mecatronics and micro-systems, with particular attention to the micro-mechanical sector (micro-machining, micro-assembly, development of micro-systems by means of technologies not deriving from micro-electronics).

 

Contact person:
• Marco Sacco (marco.sacco at itia.cnr.it)