The Joining industry is a challenging scientific and technological area on a global scale. The Joining Sub-Platform vision and its strategy will therefore, ensure that Europe continues to play a leading role in manufacturing, based on the enabling technologies of Joining. The vision will also look to accelerate the exploitation of Joining within Europe to a global level, and assist in addressing the European Grand Challenges, such as societal issues and the environment
- Competitive Joining techniques that demonstrate their importance within manufacturing
- Business models that support higher value and more flexible production methods
- Joining processes that are knowledge based through scientific understanding High performance Joining for new materials maintaining structural properties
- Joining technology distinguished as a sustainable, resource and energy efficient process that also serves the social agenda
- Improved productivity and efficiency of Joining processes
- Accelerated exploitation of Joining on a global level
- Joining integrated and recognised as a core element of manufacturing processes
- The development of Joining to support localised manufacturing through the expertise, and knowledge of skilled workers in Europe
- Joining contributing to wealth creation in industry, particularly SMEs
