Ireland

Simulation standards make additive manufacturing easier to adopt and more affordable for smaller companies. Clear guidelines reduce the learning curve, cut costly trial-and-error, and help SMEs achieve consistent part quality from the start. With access to reliable, standardised simulation tools, SMEs can optimise designs, prevent defects before production, and innovate without the heavy investment normally required. This levels the playing field and allows smaller firms to compete more effectively with larger industry players.

The development of ISO standards in simulation will help lower entry barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are critical to the European economy. Standardization simplifies the learning curve and reduces the cost of adopting AM technologies by providing clear guidelines and best practices for operating the machines. SMEs can leverage standardized simulation tools to optimize their designs and production processes, fostering innovation and enabling competition with larger players. In this sense, this work provides guidance to all companies on how to utilize modelling in the AM process chain.

My contribution provides SMEs with an illustrative example and accompanying requirements to detect and mitigate bias in AI systems using tabular data. This contribution will assist AI providers and deployers with the detection and mitigation of unwanted bias and thereby assist them in complying with the EU AI Act and protecting fundamental rights.

Contribution to the national body position through discussions with our members provides a voice to the concerns or challenges of our SMEs as well as to larger organisations.

It is critical to establish common European standards linking hardware and software particularly in new areas of technology and standardization. Example use cases include the improvement of reliability of edge and cloud computing where processing of personal data, or highly regulated data is concerned. This is even more important when considering the complexities of combining (even anonymized) data sets and processing that data in cloud hosted environments. With the impact of layered approaches to address these complexities the necessity to harmonize software and cloud-based techniques is essential.

This preliminary work item has been proposed so that we can separate out the concepts involved in observability. Observability can occur across cloud computing, mutli-cloud, distributed platforms and other areas. From early discussions with national bodies on the proposed preliminary work item was created to ensure a clear separation between the standards that are anticipated to come out of the work. Work on dataspaces with the CEN/CENELEC JTC 25 group have also indicated a need for greater quality management which can be enhanced through the application of observability. With these potential work items delineated more clearly we can aid growing organizations to improve their quality management in a scalable manner. This is essential for companies expanding across a European or wider market.

The formation of a new IEC working group on fibre optic quantum interconnect will align with the technologies of many European SMEs who would benefit from early engagement to develop standards, which help accelerate commercial adoption of their approaches. Therefore, I am strongly engaging with European quantum SMEs to secure support for the proposal and encourage participation. The successful formation of the WG would be followed by the establishment of liaisons to ISO/IEC JTC3 and CEN/CENELEC TC86

The formation of IEC TC86 WG11 aligns well with the technologies of many European SMEs who would benefit from early engagement to develop standards, which help accelerate commercial adoption of their approaches. I am strongly engaging with European quantum SMEs to encourage participation from Europe; at the moment, the membership of the group overwhelmingly European (85%).