Participating in international consortia is the way to high level R&D, with benefits for all

Cetim has been in international scientific partnerships for a long time. Being involved in international consortia is necessary to remain at the state of the art of scientific and technological progress. And this has been true since origin, specifically in standardisation.

At the moment, we are even increasing our involvement with a dozen European projects in portfolio, while being able to leverage some projects through our subsidiaries abroad as well.

In Singapore for instance, through our South East Asia division, Cetim Matcor, the Descartes program aims at developing a disruptive AI to unable optimizing decision making in critical urban projects. This one program alone gathered 80 researchers from universities, reseaching institutes as well as industrial partners in France and Singapore. The objective is to build a drone demonstrator able of remotely collecting information data from structures and equipment from oil and gas plants, so as to predict maintenance needs. Our teams are working to define the sensor needed on the drone.

Such a project not only meant progress in those domains for all partners, it also paved the way for new opportunities and collaborations, as well as for new research activies related to AI or to monitoring technologies.

Listening to participants of European project Palace, an innovative pump achitecture for cooling electrical machine linked to aircraft expectation, is hearing that same story of huge benefits for each participant ! The Palace project was initiated with the aim of evaluating a new type of pump that would operate at 5 times the speed of previously existing pumps : a pump that can reach 30,000 rpm, a totally unprecedented speed for aircraft equipment. There, the partners were Serv, an sme bringing their strong technical expertise of pumps, as well as Thales, their client, and Cetim that possessed the R&D knowledge of pumps along with the necessary tools and the required capablity to model all phenomena and benches. (Results were unprecedented, watch in video. Link in 1st comment).

Same high level challenges and incredibly ambitious characteristics with Thor (for Thermoplastic Hydrogen tanks Optimized and Recyclable), where Air Liquide, Faurecia, Sirris, Rina, CNRS Prime and NTNU were members of the 3 year long consortium along with Cetim. It took those different partners to unravel so many complicated issues covering the complete value chain of the hydrogen system. And build thermoplastic tanks starting from nowhere, as there was no plastic material on the market at the beginning of the project, and achieving a lighter tank that complies with requirements and can be recycled ! (Watch what the role of each partner in video. Link in 1st comment).

All partners emphasize that those consortia are necessary to allow reaching new heights in terms of R&D and have the means, both financial provided by Europe, and technical coming from Cetim, to complete highly ambitious projects. In addition, it is the only way we can measure ourselves while learning from one another, as best national competitors do when they meet the best at the Olympics !