High-Mix High-Volume manufacturing, the green transition toward a circular economy, and a shrinking workforce paired with reshoring are driving the three primary parallel transformations in European production.

Simultaneously, factories must adapt to complex new product categories: next-generation processor and memory architectures (including PICs and 3D chips), autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics, modern energy solutions, and nano-engineered biomedical devices.

To scale, solutions like Physical AI, IoT, and Digital Twins require new dimensional data from both product and process. Photonics delivers this necessary metrology, inspection, and sensing capability, unlocking new manufacturing paradigms.

This session brings together leading industrial end-users to expose their manufacturing quality control challenges, alongside innovative suppliers deploying next-generation photonic-based instruments to solve them.