SPOKE 6
Additive Manufacturing as disruptive
enabler of the Twin Transition
SPOKE 6
Additive Manufacturing as disruptive enabler of the Twin Transition
Ambition: Additive Manufacturing (AM) in principle represents the only viable solution to realize a new generation of green and circular products (lightweight, energy efficient, extended-lifetime products), adopting green and sustainable materials with a new generation of zero-waste processes. Spoke 6 ambition is to revolutionize AM as a disrupting enabling technology of the twin transition!
Objectives
- Highly customized, sustainable, and smart products to support the future of AM through the development of new design approaches that can design complexity for green.
- Low-impact products throughout their lifecycle through the development of innovative materials specifically designed for AM.
- Zero-waste smart AM through the development of innovative manufacturing platforms highly-sensorised and augmented with AI and big data mining to achieve in-situ, in-line monitoring, adaptive control, and self-healing capabilities for first-time-right manufacturing.

SPOKE 6
Main activities
01
ntegration of all stages in the AM process chain to speed up the scientific and industrial takeoff of Italy as a leading country in the international panorama of AM.
02
Development of novel solutions to design for AM.
03
Development of new alloys and novel materials with reduced environmental impact during lifecycle.
04
Introduction of a new generation of sustainable AM technologies, processes, and systems.