Annual Review Meeting 2021

17/18 March 2022, Online Meeting

Advanced Manufacturing is one of the Strategic Focus Areas (SFA) in the strategic planning of the ETH Board. The SFA Advanced Manufacturing aims to enable fundamental research in engineering science in areas where missing knowledge or technical problems are hindering Swiss companies to use advanced manufacturing technologies.

About 100 participants from academia and industry attended the Annual Review Meeting 2021, which had to be held online due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. One of the goals was to bring together research and industry experts from different disciplines and fields, and, thus, contribute to building a strong and well connected scientific and technical community in advanced manufacturing. Although this networking is not easy in an online setting, the project breakout rooms at the end of each block nevertheless allowed for a lively exchange and discussions among the participants.

Goal of the Meeting

At the Annual Review Meetings, the Steering Committee of the Strategic Focus Area Advanced Manufacturing (SFA-AM) reviewed the progress and results of the research projects as well as the measures taken by the participating institutions of the ETH Domain to build up capacity and to establish new technology platforms in the field of advanced manufacturing.

In addition, the event gave the scientific and technical community in advanced manufacturing insight into the projects and activities funded by the SFA-AM. Interested representatives from academia and industry were invited to attend the meeting to learn more about the research activities of the SFA-AM and to foster the exchange and collaboration inside the advanced manufacturing community.

Program

The program of the Annual Review Meeting 2021 was divided into six blocks which were covered during two half-days. In the first five blocks the leaders of the research projects presented the results that had been achieved since the project start in 2017, 2018 and 2021, respectively. In the sixth block, the representatives of the participating ETH institutions presented the planned or already realized measures to build up capacities and to establish new technology platforms in advanced manufacturing.

Day 1 - 17 March 2022

07:45	Opening of the Zoom Meeting and the access for participants
08:00	Welcome, introduction and presentation of the program
08:15	Block 1: Research Projects in the period 2017-2020 (Initial Program) Ceramic X.0 – High-precision micro-manufacturing of ceramics FUORCLAM – Fundamental Understanding of Oxide Refractory Ceramics and Laser Additive Manufacturing Powder Focusing – Powder Focusing for Beam Induced Laser 3D printing PREAMPA – Precision Additive Manufacturing of Precious Metals Alloys
09:15	Discussions in Speakers Corners / Project Breakout-Rooms
09:30	Block 2: Research Projects in the period 2021-2024 (Continuation Program) Multi-Mat – Multi-material laser powder-bed fusion ClosedLoop-LM – Ultrafast Laser Closed-loop Manufacturing using mid-IR Spectroscopy SCALAR – Highly Scaled Gravure Printing DiPrintProtect – Digitally Printed Temporary Protective Films for Application in the Watch Industry
10:30	Discussions in Speakers Corners / Project Breakout-Rooms
10:45	Block 3: Research Projects in the period 2017-2020 (Initial Program) FOXIP – Functional Oxides Printed on Polymers and Paper CFRP-AM – Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers and Additive Manufacturing SD4D – Sustainable Design of 4D Printed Active Systems
11:30	Discussions in Speakers Corners / Project Breakout-Rooms
11:45	End of the public part of the annual review meeting / Start of the Steering Committee meeting

Day 2 - 18 March 2022

07:45	Opening of the Zoom Meeting and the access for participants
08:00	Welcome, introduction and presentation of the program
08:15	Block 4: Research Projects in the period 2021-2024 (Continuation Program) AMYS – Advancing Manufacturability of Hybrid Organic-inorganic Semiconductors for Large Area Optoelectronics MANUFHAPTICS – Manufacturing of Actuators Integrated in Active Exoskeletons Microfluidics – Functional Integration for Rapid Realization of Microreactors and Bio-assays SMARTAM – Fast Optimization of Additively Manufactured Metallic Parts with a Combination of Adaptive Feedforward Control and Numerical Simulation
09:15	Discussions in Speakers Corners / Project Breakout-Rooms
09:30	Block 5: Research Projects in the period 2018-2020 (Expansion Program) D-SENSE – Digital Manufacturing of 3D-Printed Wearable Sensors MOCONT – Monitoring and Control of Additive Manufacturing Metal Process Nano Assembly – Automated Process Flow for High-speed Additive Nanostructure Assembly with Integrated Process Control SOL4BAT – Fabrication and diagnostics of stable solid-solid interfaces for next-generation Li-ion batteries
10:30	Discussions in Speakers Corners / Project Breakout-Rooms
10:45	Block 6: Capacity Build-up & Technologies Platforms (CB&TP) ETH Zurich EPFL PSI Empa
11:45	End of the public part of the annual review meeting / Start of the Steering Committee meeting

Invitation and Program

Invitation & Program
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