SFA-AM - Strategic Focus Area Advanced Manufacturing
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Functionality Integration

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Photo: 4mm steel cube 3D-printed with varying process parameters to create magnetic and non-magnetic areas; Source: Empa
Today, not only expensive specialty products, but also consumer products, need to provide several different functionalities to be competitive. A key question is how to add or integrate functionalities in a product? This question is not only relevant for the development and design of the product, but also for its manufacturing, commercialization, maintenance, and recycling. 
Adding a functionality to a product can be realized by combining different materials (multi-materials or hybrid materials), by adding structure to the product, often at different scales (multi-scale structures or metamaterials), or to integrate components, e.g. electronic devices or biological structures into the product. This Technical Focus Area (TFA) calls for research proposals in the area of new fabrication technologies for multi-functional products using multi-materials, multi-scale structures or metamaterials or technologies that enable an efficient integration of functional components into products. 
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  • Home
  • Focus Areas
    • Focus Areas 2017-2020 >
      • Precision Free-Form Manufacturing
      • Printed Electronics
      • Sustainable Digital Manufacturing and Design
      • Sensing Technologies
      • Intelligent Systems and Advanced Automation
    • Focus Areas 2021-2024 >
      • Manufacturing Technologies
      • Functionality Integration
      • Sensing Technologies
      • Intelligent Systems and Advanced Automation
  • Calls & Selection
    • Initial Program
    • Expansion Program
    • Period 2021-2024
  • Projects
    • Projects Initial Program >
      • Ceramic X.0
      • FUORCLAM
      • Powder Focusing
      • PREAMPA
      • FOXIP
      • CFRP-AM
      • SD4D
    • Projects Expansion Program >
      • D-SENSE
      • MOCONT
      • Nano Assembly
      • X-Ray Diagnostics
  • Events
    • Annual Review Meeting 2020
    • Workshop 13 July 2020
    • Annual Review Meeting 2019
    • Annual Review Meeting 2018
    • Launch Event 13 Nov 2017
    • Workshop 6 July 2017
    • Workshop 17 Oct 2016
  • About
    • Steering Committee
    • Participating ETH Institutions
  • Contact