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MOVEOTRONICS Centre

Versailles-Satory skills centre

The research and development projects undertaken at the MOV’EO mechatronics strategic business unit (SBU) have made clear the necessity to share and bring together a certain number of skills and key resources. This is to ensure the projects are well run on one hand and also that the resulting information is communicated to all current and potential involved parties.

To complete the existing network of establishments, research centres and technology centres already situated in the Ile de France area, research and higher education establishments along with manufacturers from the automotive, aeronautics and aerospace sectors have decided to create a resource and skills centre which will be established on the Versailles-Satory site.

Photo : M. Panerai - OIN

Photo : M. Panerai - OIN

This site is a key element in the Grand Paris urban renewal plan and Saclay is an area the French government has recently earmarked for development as part of its ‘national interest’ scheme (OIN). Installation of the centre will initially be carried out under the MOV’EO labelled AUDACE scheme. Although a regional project, the MOVEOTRONICS Centre is intending to have an impact on a national and international level. It will be linked to the French Institute for Research on Transport and its Safety (INRETS) which will include it within its infrastructure and confirm its status as a Regional Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (CRITT).

Naturally, the centre will cater for businesses, laboratories and higher education establishments which work in the automotive and land-based public transport sectors but it will also work with the aviation and aerospace sectors. It is supported by the MOV’EO competitiveness cluster and directly relates to their SBU mechatronics R&D projects. The resource and skills centre will promote innovation in the field of mechatronics and will allow expensive activities associated with developing these technologies to be profited from. Its ambition will be to provide support for state of the art research and development projects and become a world leader in this field. It should also enable SMEs/SMIs to get through the initial stages of their development by providing the resources and support necessary for their progress. Academic research teams as well as a group of associated manufacturers will use the centre and will be able to profit from its scientific and technical expertise.

General objectives of the resource and skills centre

MOV’EO’s partners have decided to intensify their efforts in the field of mechatronics by creating a hub of excellence which promotes innovation. It has some ambitious objectives:

  • To share resources which are expensive and complex to implement
  • To assemble unique skills in mechatronics in one place and promote synergies
  • To share reliable and exhaustive technology databases which are impossible to document alone
  • To create a durable field of technology with significant added value, influential for a wide range of businesses and to define testing protocols
  • To develop an associated field of training
  • To become a attractive and renowned European centre

To achieve these objectives, parties from different backgrounds have come together to create this centre. The main partners are :

  • Large industrial manufacturers such as VALEO, THALES AIR SYSTEMS, NXP, Sonovision, and smaller companies such as MB Electronique and NMR
  • Higher education and research establishments such as ESTACA, l’UVSQ (University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), ENSICAEN, ESIGELEC-IRSEEM, LGEP, SPEE labs, SUPELEC, INSA and the University of Rouen
  • Public laboratories and industrial technology centres such as LNE, INRETS, the CETIM.
  • Technology transfer centres such as the CEVAA

IRSEEM activity

Within this context, IRSEEM provides its skills in particular in the field of EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) and component reliability. By locating some of its activity in Satory, it will be closer to its partners as well as industrial manufacturers that carry out research activity and academics located in the Ile de France region. It will also be able to act as an intermediary between the mechatronic business sectors of the Normandy and greater Parisian regions.

Contacts :

Xavier Savatier
Manager of the Instrumentation, IT and Systems Center
xavier.savatier@esigelec.fr

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