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The Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Laboratories (AnTs) are an organizational unit of CZM. The AnTs have the following tasks:

1. the operation of scientific and technical equipment at CZM in the fields of manufacturing technology, metrology and materials testing;
2. the central and uniform presentation of the technical equipment at CZM in the above-mentioned areas;
3. supporting the equipment operators in acquisition, equipment maintenance and billing.

The CZM Executive Board decides on the location (by members), organizational integration, procurement and use of equipment in the AnTs. Equipment managers and contact persons are appointed to ensure the operational use of equipment.

• Equipment and devices belonging to members on CZM premises
  Equipment or devices set up by members on CZM premises remain the property of the respective member. As the person responsible for the equipment, the owner alone decides on the use of the equipment located at CZM. He retains full access rights. Any costs arising from the operation of the equipment or devices shall be borne by the owner. The use of the equipment and devices by third parties (e.g. other members) is also regulated by the owner.
  
• Systems and equipment procured via the CZM or organizationally integrated systems and equipment
  In the case of equipment financing from the Center's material and operating resources, the CZM Executive Board shall appoint a person responsible for the equipment. In the case of financing via third-party and special funds or the TUC research pool, the main applicant acts as the person responsible for the equipment. The technical and scientific staff of the CZM are available to operate the equipment. The basic operation of the equipment is ensured by the center's teaching and operating resources.

Access to the device is regulated by the person responsible for the device, especially when capacities are tight. A digital form system exists for the display and management of production and test/measurement orders.

• TUC members / sovereign use: consumables
• TUC members / commercial use: hourly machine rate for system wear parts + hourly rates for separation calculation + consumables
• External use: according to project-related offer preparation

The hourly machine rates are provided by the CZM office. Hourly rates for separation calculation are available on the TUC intranet. Individual offers are prepared centrally by the CZM office in cooperation with the equipment managers. For the internal and external use of equipment that was originally procured in programs or from third-party funds (e.g. DFG large-scale equipment, ERDF research infrastructures, ...), the respective usage guidelines of the funding bodies must be taken into account. In a case-by-case assessment, appropriate usage fees and usage options may be determined, taking into account the earmarking period specified by the funding provider.

Costs shall be invoiced via the CZM office. Consumables can be provided by the system user after checking the specifications.

Self-use is possible or necessary for larger volumes of use within the TUC, depending on the system and agreement. For this purpose, the person responsible for the equipment must be contacted and equipment training must be provided by a qualified equipment operator. Safety instruction is required for work groups outside the CZM. In addition, users undertake to use the equipment provided properly and to comply with the existing technical center rules. In the case of economic use, the separate hourly rates for CZM operating personnel do not apply.

All experiments must be documented in a lab book. Depending on the working group, measurement data is made available via the standard transfer servers in combination with elabFTW. In the field of metallography, the Imagic IMS program also exists as an exchange and evaluation platform. When using a device in publicly funded projects, the FDM specifications of the funding body relevant to the grant are taken into account in accordance with the research data guidelines of Clausthal University of Technology(https://www.fdm.tu-clausthal.de/erste-schritte/forschungsdaten-leitlinie).

The technical equipment of the AnTs is uniformly presented on the CZM homepage. Equipment managers and contact persons/operators are named. The latter can be contacted in particular to arrange specific production trials or test setups. The scientific management of the AnTs is responsible for central marketing in cooperation with the CZM managing director.