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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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