Arts et Métiers research Arts et Métiers reorganized around three themes to better integrate societal and environmental constraints. The aim is also to improve synergies with training.
"Students, manufacturers, and society at large are not prepared to wait five or ten years for us to train engineers and technicians capable of meeting societal and environmental challenges," explains Ivan Iordanoff, Director of Research and Innovation . "Our goal is to establish an organization that will provide the skills and solutions needed today."
Three interacting themes
This organization consists of prioritizing research and training synergies around three themes:
- "Digitalization of the life cycle,"
- "Sustainable, low-carbon engineering,"
- "Smart materials, structures, and systems."
"This three-pronged approach will encourage interaction," continues Ivan Iordanoff. " The three themes combined will help to develop products and services that have a maximum lifespan, with the lowest possible ecological and economic cost. Today, for example, we can no longer work on smart systems without considering their carbon cost. And while digital and smart systems have an environmental cost, environmental solutions need digital and smart systems. We therefore need to take a holistic approach to these three areas."
An example of a project that takes all these dimensions into account Arts et Métiers "Inédit," Arts et Métiers . This project includes a digital platform where anyone can design their own furniture, as well as a local manufacturing process. It is therefore a unique ecosystem of open innovation and open manufacturing (more information).
Promoting Learning Factory projects
"Bringing activities together around these three themes will also lead to greater synergy between the school's various experts, as they require a high degree of interdisciplinarity to overcome technological barriers: measuring carbon costs, using "clean" hydrogen, reducing obsolescence, etc. This synergy will also fuel the Learning Factories projects that the school wants to set up, as digital technology, smart systems, and the environment will be the common threads running through them."
Already numerous projects
The Arts et Métiers laboratories Arts et Métiers incorporating environmental constraints for several years now. This is evidenced by the eco-design and eco-innovation projects carried out at the LCPI, upstream research on bio-based materials at the MSMP (more information), life cycle analysis and electronic waste recycling in Chambéry (more information), predictive maintenance at the PIMM (more information), and energy efficiency, which are being worked on by the Lifse (more information) and L2EP (more information).
Better transfer to training courses
Another objective of this reorganization is to accelerate the transfer of sustainable technologies into training programs and to integrate environmental and societal aspects into all teaching. This involves providing all teachers with tools and methodologies on life cycle techniques and environmental impact.
