The "Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques” (Technical Centre for Mechanical Industries) was created in 1965 to provide the more than 7000 French mechanical companies with the technical support needed for increasing their competitivity and pooling their resources.
Over 50 % of the 760 persons of the Cetim are engineers and technicians. Cetim has 3 main sites (Senlis, Nantes et Saint-Étienne), 17 regional delegations and 3 affiliated centres (Cetim-Cermat, Cetim-Certec et Pôle Polymères Sud (South Polymer Division).
Joint interest works to accompany mechanics companies
The aim of the joint actions is to support the companies in their development:
cross-disciplinary or mechanics dedicated R&D and services, technological intelligence,normative works.
Cetim's site locations and field of expertise
- Design assistance
- Dimensioning, simulation, software
- Industrial organisation
- Mechanical products and processes
- Metallic materials and surfaces
- Fluid and flow techniques
- Tightness technology
- Sound and Vibration engineering
- Machines and controls
- Measurement and non-destructive control Engineering
- Metrology– Calibration
- Quality – safety – environment
- Default analysis
- Training and skills management
Technological R&D scientific partnerships
- Growth exceeding 235 % of the external study budgets over the last 6 years
- 9 new joint laboratories over the last 5 years (with engineering schools, Universities / CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique))
- Creation of a Cetim Foundation, at the end of 2003, dedicated to mechanical research
European and international expansion
- Current participation in 27 European projects (+ 3 projects outside Europe)
- 200 present partnerships
Industrial contracts and partnership research
- Towards the development of mechanics as well as energy and processes
- Nearly 50 % of sales turnover with SMEs of less than 200 persons
- Major industrial partners: Airbus, PSA, Delphi, Goodrich...
Our markets
- Transport,
- Energy,
- Metal transformation,
- Process industries,
- Manufacturers of mechanical components and precision components,
- Manufacturers of equipment goods,
- Defence and weapons industry,
- Logistics and handling,
- Companies dedicated services.
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