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Individual Chapters of the 2nd Edition of International Micro-Nano Roadmap Are Now Available The 2004 edition roadmap is a "living document" that has been 6 years in the making. With the introduction of the hugely successful First Edition in September 2002, the Second Edition builds on what the leadership team learned and our customers told us what they needed to know to succeed in the MST marketplace. We've almost sold out of the 2nd Edition copies, so order yours soon. While a good value as a complete roadmap, some customers have requested to purchase individual chapters. We have made printed individual chapters are now available for the following chapters. Order individual chapters here:
The CD-ROM version of the International Micro-Nano Roadmap contains both 1st and 2nd Editions. The 2nd edition CD of the Roadmap has an accompanying printed version. Members, Partners, and 1st Edition customers receive significant discounts. We encourage becoming a member of MANCEF in order to receive member price of $350 for the roadmap. Individual MANCEF membership costs $150 for two years. The non-member price is $650 for each copy of the Roadmap.
Download the Roadmap sales brochure (.pdf) Executive Summaries
The Second edition of the Micro / Nano Roadmap will assist in the commercial development of products and systems based on the Micro and Nano enabling technology base. The roadmap is designed to assist governments, organizations and individuals in the Micro or Nano value chain to develop their own strategic roadmap to improve their own chances for competitive advantage. The roadmap in particular aims:
The International Microsystems Roadmap Leaders Dr. Steven T. Walsh, UNM, MANCEF Acknowledgements
The efforts of the chapter leaders and the contributors over the past six years have been enormous. The 21 chapters were completed with the assistance of well over 500 contributors from four continents (Asia, Australia, Europe, North & South America). MANCEF thanks them all. Through their efforts, we were able to present the completed roadmap at the COMS 2002 conference in September, 2002. Special thanks to the nearly seventy (70) chapter leaders from four continents which worked so hard to make this possible. Introduction The fast growing "Small Tech" industry is an industry holding both promises and pitfalls for those firms supplying, manufacturing, funding, and using products made using the Small Tech technology base. This industry is in an early stage of rapid technological development, thereby characterizing the industry as chaotic -- offering both opportunities for great profits and threats of failure for new and existing firms. Typical of a chaotic industry, there are dozens of new entrants every year. There are also numerous competing front-end and back-end technologies for every one of the many MEMS based products commercially available. Our roadmap separates front-end technologies into silicon-based IC like MEMS and non-IC like MEMS production. Manufacturers, however, almost always focus on a limited subset of the front-end manufacturing technologies available. The industry's growth is unmistakable; and where there is growth driven by new, early-stage technologies, there is opportunity. There is also a tendency to either "Hype" the value of the underlying technology or to radically understate the nature of its value. This roadmap seeks to dispel some of the ambiguity centered on this emergent industry. The International Microsystems Roadmap (IMR) provides directions to firms for the commercialization of products and systems produced utilizing micron scale devices and structures for industrial, automotive, information technology, defense, life sciences, consumer applications and many others. Who is this Document for? Microsystems based technology is the second micro-manufacturing revolution and is poised to be every bit as universal as its cousin technology, semiconductors. The purpose of the International Microsystems Roadmap (IMR) is to assist in the understanding of an industry based on this revolutionary technology known alternatively as: Microsystems Technology (MST), MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), Micro-Machining, or even Top-Down MicroNanotech. This document is designed for those seeking to understand the industry and where future growth and profit opportunities lie, as well as for those intending to develop their own commercialization roadmaps for their products in specific industry segments. To that end, the roadmap provides general trends in 15 specific areas essential to the commercialization process of MST/MEMS/Micromachining-based products. This roadmap in particular aims: To "Speed-up" the process of commercialization of products based on Microsystems technologies through the pre-competitive sharing of information between the firms and contributors involved in this road mapping process.
Some Users and Customers of the IMNR, First and Second Editions
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