The Network of Excellence for Design in Micro & Nano Manufacture has been recently installed and will be funded by the EU’s Information Society Technologies program. The project aims to address the underlying engineering science to ensure that problems affecting the manufacture and reliability of products based on micro and nano technologies can be addressed before prototype and pre-production. According to industry experience, “most microsystems are designed without proper considerations for final testing, reliability and manufacturability, and these issues are tackled on a contingency basis only once a problem arises”. Communication among different teams is important to implement a methodology increasing the rate of success and shorten time-to-market. The project should integrate what are currently isolated and dispersed groups with valuable skills, create critical mass in for the design of micro and nano manufacturing in Europe, and provide researchers with access to latest equipment and technology. The initiative will build on industrial needs which have been defined by key players, and its aim is to work closely with other European projects and with initiatives worldwide like the MEMS industry group in the US.
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