Advancing printed and hybrid electronics from concepts to pilot factory manufacturing

Printed and hybrid electronics technologies are currently being developed for elastic wearable smart patches for health and medical applications. Also thin flexible smart labels are highly interesting for several industries to improve transparency, efficiency and security of the logistics throughout their product life cycle. Today with printed and flexible electronics solutions for practically any function required can be developed, but the bottleneck is often in upscaling. In this presentation the speeding up the upscaling utilizing VTT’s Printocent Pilot Factory is discussed. Development of printing, component assembly, postprocessing and testing is described.