The Extreme Manufacturing Research Center (EMRC) is oriented toward addressing China’s urgent need to develop high-end, smart and digitalized manufacturing. By targeting the various limits in current advanced manufacturing technologies, the Center leads cutting-edge scientific and technological research, and seeks to make breakthroughs in key and core technologies involving the process, materials, design and equipment for extreme manufacturing, thereby aiming to foster innovation and applications of core technologies and equipment.

The key research directions at the Center encompass extreme manufacturing at multiple scales and with various types of material, including additive and subtractive manufacturing of extremely large high-performance structures, fabrication with ultra-high resolution of three-dimensional functional material devices, additive manufacturing of extremely complex biological systems, smart manufacturing under extreme working conditions, etc. Supported by the outstanding and open research facilities, the Center carries out both cutting-edge and applied basic research on the process fundamentals, material development, optimization and design, digital twin, application and verification in extreme manufacturing. Ultimately, the Center endeavors to develop material-structure integrated technologies, break through the bottlenecks limiting the overall performance of fabricated parts, resolve challenges in the self-dependent development of major manufacturing equipment and of essential algorithms in industrial software, establish an innovation platform for in-depth industry–university-research collaboration, and make contributions to nurturing top talents in smart manufacturing and upgrading industrial technologies and equipment.