MACHINES AND INSTRUMENTATION

• Establishing and coordinating a European plan (called EUREKA) between French, Italian and Finnish partners for the use of a new, rapid prototyping technology for all types of materials. Setting up of partnership contracts, help with transfers. • Market survey of an instrument-driven system to validate the mechanical hardness and surface states of machined or coated materials (instruments for micro-indentation). • Market research, definition export strategy, finding partners in the USA and setting up a business plan for a machine to automatically measure-with no physical contact-the sizes of mechanical parts. • Finding applications for a thickness treatment validation procedure and surface quality by electric stylus (CNRS associate laboratory). • Market survey of a moiré fringes optical system to study the deformation of mechanical parts after machining or on site, etc. • Market research, finding partners and setting up partnership agreements, for a concept of poignet compliant appliqué à l'assemblage. • Aid in the international development of a non-destructive eddy-current control technology for applications in various sectors (marine, boilermaking, civil engineering, etc.).