ManuFUTURE Vision 2030 envisions Future Manufacturing as a key driver for growth and sustainability, by exploiting current trends, challenges and opportunities, influencing the development of all manufacturing sectors. This document is a contribution for political, economic, ecological and social orientation from a European perspective.

The manufacturing sector is of vital importance for Europe to foster economic growth and job creation and has a pivotal role to play in prompting investment and innovation, in particular as a vehicle for the introduction of radical innovations. The ongoing digitalisation of industry and the integration of new technologies are examples of the manufacturing enabling role and the European leading capabilities.

Check the document here:

Manufuture-Vision-2030_DIGITAL.pdf

Next AM-Platform meeting will be heldin Lübeck (Germany) at SLM Solutions. Please find a draft agenda below.

The meeting is free of charge and all of you that wourl like to join us there pelase send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . SPace is limited.

Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing Project (SAM) will tackle the current European need of developing an effective system to identify and anticipate the right skills for Additive Manufacturing

Technology is evolving at a much faster pace than the development of the workers` skills to use it. Most of the current initiatives and projects that focus on skills shortages are developing skills for existing needs and shortages, meaning that industry is already demanding personnel with those competences. Looking at a bigger picture, it means that there is no strategical approach to skills in Additive Manufacturing and that the current methodology to answer to skills needs is based on reaction instead of prediction and planning. Adding to this, the time between identification of the skills needs and shortages and the capability of deploying qualification/training modules to address them is not aligned with the industry requirements, since in most cases it takes about 1-2 years to create the required professional profile/qualification or competence unit/training module and to have it deployed.