Elisabetta Ceretti - Selected Topics in Manufacturing: AITeM Young Researcher Award 2019

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Manufacturing can be easily considered the backbone of the European economy with a total of 2.1 million enterprises employing near 30 millions of people (14.2% of the total European workforce) and generating EUR 1710 billions of value added in 2014 (26 % of the European value added).

The competitivity and resilience of the European manufacturing sector strongly ground on the technical leadership and ability to handle complexity. Manufacturing is today a complex and highly interconnected value creation process ecosystem pursuing high-value-added products to compete globally.

Manufacturing is evolving continuously, taking advantage of emergent technologies and establishing interrelations with many scientific and technological areas, e.g., computer science, materials research, microelectronics, and biosciences, moving its scope beyond simple product fabrication.

Italy is one of the main actors in the European manufacturing sector, being the second largest manufacturing economy in Europe. Moreover, Italy has also a prominent role as a technology provider for manufacturing, with the machinery and equipment sector having the largest share of the Italian exported goods in the last years. Research and innovation also constitute a very relevant area for both Italian universities and companies, covering different and heterogeneous sectors, ranging from manufacturing technologies, processes, equipment, systems, as well as strategical and economical aspects. Italian partners, in fact, reached the second position in terms of research efforts in European H2020 projects in manufacturing.

AITeM, the Italian Association of Manufacturing, funded in 1992, is an organization involving academics, researchers, and industrialists whose main interest is in manufacturing. Since the foundation, AITeM is the cultural and technological reference for manufacturing and production systems in Italy, whose aim is promoting research in manufacturing through events, collaborations, research and industrial projects, as well as disseminating the research and innovation culture to the general public. AITeM counts today about 300 associates coming from all the universities in Italy, as well as 30 industrial groups. AITeM is also the largest network of research laboratories in Italy in the area of manufacturing.