SERVICES


Towards “Design for Manufacture” Service Clusters

The PATENT-DfMM project has further developed its concept of offering services to industry. Specific “Service Clusters” will be established in discrete areas of “Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture”, where a clear need can be identified, especially from small companies. PATENT-DfMM will bring added value to the Industrial community through synergies and distributed critical mass in focused areas formed by these collaborative clusters. These teams can define an offer to the industrial community that may be in the form of training, access to equipment & operating support, design, test, packaging or reliability services, consultancy or prototyping.

It is planned to collaborate closely with other projects and existing industrial service providers.
Service clusters may –depending on market needs and business opportunities- develop into commercial service organisations or keep the format of a collaborative network that works on a project basis.

The distinct “service offers” of the clusters are in the definition process currently and will still have to be validated through a market test process. PATENT-DfMM partners that are closely working with industry are involved in this activity.
Preliminary Service Cluster announcements:

Contact: Andrew Richardson, Patric Salomon
E-mail: services@patent-dfmm.org