Focus Topics

ManuFuture-CH currently focuses on the following topics

• Sustainable Manufacturing and Logistics Networks
  Efficient handling of goods and services to optimize earnings and to develop unique selling propositions
  
  Contact: Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis
  EPFL, STI IGM LICP, ME A1 396, Station 9, 1015 Lausanne,
  phone number +41 21 693 5163
  
  
  

• Automation
  Automated production to reduce costs and to improve throughput in a high wage country
  
  Contact: Prof. Hans Wernher van de Venn
  Head of the Institute of Mechatronic Systems IMS, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Technikumstrasse 5, Postfach, 8401 Winterthur
  phone number +41 58 934.77.89
  fax +41 58 935.77.89
  
  
  

• Medical
  Goods and services at the boundary between lifescience and machine tools to strengthen this industry strong in Switzerland
  
  Contact: Peter Biedermann
  Cluster-Manager, Medical Cluster c/o innoBE AG, Wankdorffeldstrasse 102, Postfach 261, 3000 Bern 22
  phone number +41 31 335.62.23
  fax +41 31 335.62.24
  
  
  

• Materials
  New materials as enabler of new products and manufacturing technologies
  
  Contact: Dr. Niklaus Bühler
  ETH Zürich
  
  
  
  

• Microfactory
  Small and flexible production concepts for small parts in many different variants
  
  Contact: Prof. Jacques Giovanola
  EPFL, STI IGM LCSM, ME A1 400, Station 9, 1015 Lausanne
  phone number +41 21 693.29.22
  fax +41 21 693.35.53