AUTOMOBILES

• Organisation of a network of 9 companies specialised in electronics to carry out a joint sales strategy for products in the European automobile sector. • Products developed: slowing-down warning device on motorways, fog detector, driver sleepiness warning device. • Setting up of technological partnerships between a speedometer manufacturer, insurance companies and car builders to draw up an agreement protocol for distance-based insurance. • Help with know-how transfer. • Market research in France for new paints for plastic bodywork for cars (SMB of 100 people). • European market research for a new anti-theft system for diesel cars, with simultaneous cutoff of the ignition, the brakes and the electronic command of the vehicle (SMB of 20 people). • Transfer of a technology using a new concept for paint quality control of motor-cars on production lines (National Research Centre). • Various studies into systems of safe driving accompaniment on roads and motorways (equipment manufacturers and public authorities). •Research into applications for a new concept in paint quality control using an optical and physical system. Help with technology transfer to the automobile sector. •Audit of a Mediterranean basin company-a manufacturer of flexible brake and hydraulic pipes. Directing medium-term strategy and quest for partners and with other manufacturers and sub-contractors. • Audit of a variety of technological projects for heavy goods vehicle safety. • Market research, technical solutions, studies of distribution networks, sales positioning for light vehicles using "clean" power units such as electric cars, electric mopeds and delivery vans.