Charles Mille, a doctoral student at the Arts et Métiers Institute Arts et Métiers Laval, within the LAMPA, defended his thesis on February 8 on the impact of digital tools and immersive technologies in supporting innovation and creativity. Focus onhis research, which offers several recommendations to boost creativity!
The Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers received the innovation award from the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) for the quality of its work on biocomposites in the space industry.
Florence Danglade, Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences and Doctor of Mechanical Design atLISPEN, conducts studies on manufacturers' expectations regarding CAD tools, 3D models, and the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) techniques from design to maintenance.
The European PERSEUS project aims to increase the efficiency of pulse jet actuators in order to reduce aircraft pollution. DynFluid is responsible for the numerical and theoretical work.
In 2020, Arts et Métiers research teams Arts et Métiers around ten applications to the French National Research Agency's (ANR) 2020 Generic Call for Projects (AAPG 2020). The success rate was high, with six applications accepted, including four from young researchers. Fabien Viprey, from LaboMaP, is one of the teacher-researchers.
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In 2020, Arts et Métiers research teams Arts et Métiers around ten applications to the French National Research Agency's (ANR) 2020 Generic Call for Projects (AAPG 2020). The success rate was high, with six applications accepted, including the Regal ORC collaborative research project!
Find out what equipment is available at the FabLab on the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny.
Laser power: 30 watts
Laser type: CO2 and fiber
Working area: 1000mm x 600mm
Workable materials:
Technology: Wire deposition
Print volume: 200 mm diameter by 200 mm high
Minimum print tolerance: 0.1 mm
Dual nozzle head for printing ABS material and HIPS support material
Nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm
Technology: Stereolithography (laser-cured resin)
Print volume: 150 x 150 x 200 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Machine resolution:
Manufacturing materials: clear resin, draft resin, and standard black resin
Technology: Stereolithography (laser-cured resin)
Print volume: 150 x 150 x 200 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Machine resolution:
Manufacturing materials: "clear," "draft," and standard black resin
Technology: Wire deposition
Print volume: 200 x 295 x 300 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm
Manufacturing materials: ABS and PLA only
Technology: Filament deposition
Print volume: 200 x 250 x 300 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Dual nozzle head for printing two materials/colors on the same print
Nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm
Manufacturing materials: ABS, PLA, PETG, PVA, etc.
Technology: Wire deposition
Print volume: 330 x 240 x 300 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm
Manufacturing materials: ABS, PLA, PETG, PVA, 316L, etc.
Technology: Wire deposition
Print volume: 150 x 150 x 200 mm
Minimum print tolerance: 0.025 mm
Nozzle diameter: 0.4 mm
Manufacturing materials: ABS only
Technology: selective laser sintering
Print volume: 130 x 180 x 330 mm
Minimum Z-axis printing tolerance: 0.025 mm
Manufacturing materials: PA12 polymer only
Structured light 3D scanner.
New York 329 sewing machine
Symphonie 500 sewing machine
Workspace: 600 x 420 x 250 mm
Workspace: 310 x 220 x 160 mm
Working area: Max stroke of 200 mm
Low-tech CNC lathe
Working area: R150 x 500 mm
Accepted media width: 50mm to 700mm
Maximum cutting speed: 500mm/s
Materials: vinyl, paper, thin cardboard, vinyls, transfer materials, window adhesives
Applications: transfers for clothing, packaging prototypes, signage, and stickers.
Velleman VTSSC40N Digital Soldering Station
Maximum power of the heating element: 48W
Power supply: 230 VAC 50 Hz
Temperature range: 150 - 450 °C 
Multimeter 
DC voltage generator 
History/What is a fablab?
Excerpt fromWikipedia: (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The concept of the fab lab was created by Neil Gershenfeld, a professor at MIT, in the late 1990s and launched at the university's Media Lab, in collaboration with the Grassroots Invention Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), also at MIT.
He began by exploring how information content relates to its physical representation, and how a community can be made more creative and productive if it has access to technology at the local level.
While the Grassroots Invention Group is no longer part of the Media Lab, the Center for Bits and Atoms consortium is still actively involved in pursuing research in areas related to description and fabrication, but it does not operate or maintain any of the fab labs around the world, except for the mobile fab lab.
The Fab Lab concept also stems from two very popular courses at MIT: MAS.863, entitled "How To Make (Almost) Anything," and MAS.S62, entitled "How To Make Something That Makes (Almost) Anything." These highly sought-after courses are still open to students during the fall semester.
In France, the first initiatives were launched in 2009:Artilect FabLab Toulouse in 2009, thenPing,Nybi.cc, andNet-ikiin 2011, theFabLab at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, and theLabFabs in Rennes5,Lannion, andMontpellierin 2012.
Fab labs are based on the principles of openness and collaboration. They rely on digital manufacturing machines and networks that enable files to be exchanged worldwide. An object can therefore be designed in one fab lab, manufactured in another, and improved in a third.
Thanks to simplified, user-friendly, and increasingly interoperable computer interfaces, it is becoming easier for non-specialist users to take control of technical tools (for example, writing, illustrating, designing, and printing their own book online, using commercial or free software such as Wikibook).
The appropriation that free software has facilitated now extends to free hardware (or Open Hardware), and for example to the methods of digital prototyping enabled by platforms such as Arduino, or to physical prototyping enabled by fab labs.
Image credit CC-BY free license
Fab labs are a global network of local laboratories that enable invention by giving individuals access to digital manufacturing tools.
Access: you can use the fab lab to make just about anything (as long as it doesn't harm anyone); you must learn how to make it yourself, and you must share the use of the lab with other users.
Training in the fab lab is based on projects and peer learning; you must participate in knowledge sharing and instructing other users.
you are responsible for:
Concepts and processes developed in fab labs must remain available for individual use, even if intellectual property can be protected.
Commercial activities may be initiated in fab labs, but they must not impede open access. They must develop outside the lab rather than within it, and in turn benefit the inventors, labs, and networks that contributed to their success.
TheARTS Carnot Institute Partnership Research Awards, comprising 23 laboratories, were presented to three researchers for their work on issues related to the industry of the future.
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.