Assystem - 2015 Registration Document

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2015 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT (CSR)

THE ENVIRONMENT: CONSERVING RESOURCES

and help ensure that the whole sector makes progress on CSR issues. CSR Club members meet every quarter to examine how to get to grips with and implement CSR principles in the engineering sector. The CSR Club puts together qualitative and quantitative indicators for the engineering sector aimed at meeting all of the challenges of sustainable development. Other studies are being carried out with other professional federations and clients with a view to collectively contributing to thoughts on these subjects. ● Assystem participates in dialogues with the stakeholders and its main competitors, organised within SYNTEC, in order to unify practices in the engineering world by sharing industry-wide benchmarks. The purpose of these dialogues is to meet the expectations of stakeholders and make the sector more dynamic. Imagining tomorrow’s cities today The engineering sector is currently experiencing the merging of two worlds that previously co-existed in parallel civil engineering and embedded intelligence. Capitalising on the fact it belongs to the worlds of infrastructures and products, in 2014 Assystem published a white paper “Urbanisation, mobility and the environment: the viewpoints of an engineering firm” concerning the major challenges inherent in tomorrow’s smart cities, and the role of an engineering firm in bringing about these changes. To open the debate on these challenges, the Group also launched a series of workshops on smart cities, organised in partnership with La Villa Numeris (a think tank specialising in digital matters) on Assystem’s new premises in Issy-les-Moulineaux, the first municipality in France to have created a district smart grid. The first workshop, which took place on 24 September 2014, dealt with the topic of smart mobility. Several other workshops were held in 2015 on the theme of tomorrow’s smart cities, exploring the challenges of cybersecurity and data protection, energy transition and the contribution of the digital model. 2015 NEWS

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● In June 2015, Assystem took over leadership of a European consortium for the development of “Scissor”, the first European cybersecurity project relating to industrial systems. This project is part and parcel of the European Union Horizon 2020 programme and has been allocated €4 million of funding by the Commission. Scissor comprises nine partners and will undergo full scale testing on a smart grid on the Italian island of Favignana. ● Among other innovations, at the Paris Air Show Assystem presented a new process for manufacturing composite materials that reduces aircraft weight and optimises the manufacturing costs of airframes. Assytem’s engineers have applied this technology to drones, developing a central section of a drone wing that reduced its weight by 40% and afforded a 20% cost saving. This Cellular Core Technology makes it possible to design and fabricate airframe components in a single operation, that sometimes require 24 passes, thanks to an internal and external mould produced by means of 3D printing. At present it is used on airframe components but it is also applicable to any other industry. ● Assystem was awarded the 2015 National Engineering Prize for Energine, a new generation engine developed by its own engineers in partnership with the FEMTO-ST institute. This innovative engine can be integrated into an industrial process that gives off heat in order to convert it into electricity. It makes it possible to recover the heat from a vehicle’s exhaust in order to reduce its fuel consumption or to achieve high efficiency levels in housing, service sector buildings, etc.

Encouraging the entire engineering sector to support sustainable development

Assystem is actively involved in initiatives launched by the engineering sector with a view to promoting its activities and sharing best practices related to safety and security. In France, Assystem’s membership of the CSR Club set up by the SYNTEC Ingénierie professional federation demonstrates its determination to put in place a continuous improvement process for sustainable development

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