Update on EURAMET’s European Metrology Network for Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing has been identified by the European Commission as one of six so-called Key Enabling Technologies (KET). This is one of the reasons why EURAMET, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes and Regional Metrology Organization of Europe, has established one of its twelve European Metrology Networks (EMN) on the topic of Advanced Manufacturing in September 2021. The EMNs were initiated in areas of high strategic relevance for the further development of Europe in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The EMN for Advanced Manufacturing is structured in three sections along a generic manufacturing chain: 1) Advanced Materials, 2) Smart Manufacturing Systems, 3) Manufactured Components and Products. One of the key objectives was to develop a Strategic Research Area (SRA) of metrology needs, which is to be regularly updated to take into account current and future needs of the various stakeholders. Following the draft publication of the SRA of the EMN for Advanced Manufacturing in October 2024 we introduce here the first formal release of the SRA and provide an update on the recent, ongoing, and planned activities of the EMN.