OBJECTIVE / MISSION


The NoE Patent-DfMM aims to establish a collaborative team to provide European industry with support in the field of "Design for Micro and Nano Manufacture (DfMM)" to ensure that problems affecting the manufacture and reliability of products based on micro nano technologies (MNT) can be addressed before prototype and pre-production.

EC Project Duration:
1st January 2004 - 31st December 2007

Mission
    - Re-structure the European DfMM Community by creating new collaborative virtual laboratories providing industrial services in :
      - Design-for-test engineering
      - Reliability and characterisation engineering
      - Packaging engineering
      - Modelling and simulation technology
    - Create a commercial industrial support service in DfMM technology
    - Accelerate the output of trained professionals in DfMM engineering
    - Network key equipment facilities and improve academic and commercial access to core capabilities