Our ambition is to develop innovative assembly systems leading to real technological breakthroughs.
Due to this, we are actively involved in several collaborative industrial research projects.
The goal is to prepare the technical foundations for the solutions we will offer you tomorrow.
Our motivations :
→ to remain at the forefront of research to continue to provide a quick response to our customers’ technological challenges
→ to develop partnerships and collaborations with key players in fundamental research
→ to develop the skills of our researchers and engineers, who are constantly faced with new challenges
→ to promote high-potential research work at the industrial level.
Co-funded by BPI France.
As part of BPI France’s call for projects in Offer for robots and intelligent machines of excellence (“Offre de robots et machines intelligentes d’excellence”) financed by the “France 2030” investment plan.
Photonic systems (systems that use light rather than electricity to perform digital functions) are on the brink of a planetary revolution in the 21st century, just as electronics were in the 20th century. But where electronics found its Holy Grail with silicon technology, photonics is still looking for its own. To expand photonic technologies, strategic objectives need to be addressed first such as miniaturisation, standardisation and manufacturing cost minimisation.
PhotonScale aims to facilitate the assembly and packaging (90% of production costs) of ultra-miniaturised photonic systems using robotic platforms adapted to this technology, already verified at prototype scale.
This project will build these platforms for industrial manufacturing and equip these very platforms with cutting-edge modules and processes dedicated to current and incoming photonics challenges.
Optical fiber insertion.
Collimator manipulation and mounting.
Co-funded by BPI France.
As part of the 2018 Innovation Competition, funded by the Investment in the Future Program (“Programme investissement d’avenir (PIA)”).
The project aims to apply the concepts of the Industry of the Fut
ure to robotic micro-assembly machines, based on the very high precision assembly market.
As a leading company in the development of modular micro-assembly machines, we want to develop Industry 4.0 tools to make the machines communicative, predictive and adaptive. In particular, we wish to bring new ways of interaction between the operator and the machine in the micrometric range to improve the training of machine operators at the customer’s site and to facilitate maintenance operations by the customer himself.
The work on new human/machine interactions and predictive maintenance tools is done in close collaboration with university research teams that are internationally recognised and specialised in their domain.
Cofunded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency).
While many miniature products are still assembled by hand, our ambition was to provide new cobotic solutions to improve assembly performance at this scale, and to enable robotisation of SMEs in Europe.
In particular, this project has enabled to develop new technologies – including a new gripper with an integrated force sensor and a haptic interface offering force feedback to the operator – and new collaborative control modes. The operator’s intelligence (analysis, decision-making, flexibility) and the machine performance (repeatability, precision, reliability, access to micro-scale) are combined to carry out tasks that are difficult to automate, and with a tenfold increase in efficiency compared to manual assembly.
As an actor already strongly involved in the development of cobotic solutions, we bring our expertise in order to allow the operator to have an easier and more reliable access to micro-manipulation and micro-assembly.
Cofunded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union.
As part of the “Smart Specialization Strategy” Call for Expression of Interest (AMI S3).
The ambition of this project was to create a regional
industry for the design and manufacture of innovative products based on silicon/metal hybridisation, by bringing together actors from the Franche-Comté region who specialise in advanced microtechnology.
The various partners in the consortium have enabled the development of a new type of sensor that can be manufactured on an industrial scale, thanks to the development of new technologies for clean room manufacturing and new modular assembly machines that are compatible with mass production. Silicon/metal hybridization makes it possible to improve precision levels by a factor of 10 to 100 compared to the microtechniques that are usually used and to offer new, more efficient products in many fields (medical, space, transport, energy, microelectronics, etc.).
“Cellule Intégrée de mesure de microforce par Technologie HybriDe”.
Cofunded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union.
As part of the INTERREG France-Switzerland 2014-2020 program.
The ambition of the project was to develop a new assembly technique that would allow the production
of complex miniature components at low cost, even in small numbers. The aim was to optimise manufacturing processes and ensure reliable quality control of production. The design, manufacturing, testing and validation methodologies resulting from this project are generic and can be applied to many areas of complex miniature component assembly.
In particular, the project has made possible the design, fabrication and assembly of force measurement cells based on piezoresistive strain microgauges that are arranged on a test body which size can vary from centimeter to micrometer scale. The performance of this sensor allows force measurement in Newton scale, with a resolution in the micronewton range, in one to three directions.
Cofunded by BPI France.
As part of the Innovation Stratégique Industrielle (ISI) (“Strategic Industrial Innovation”) program.
The fundamental objective of this project was to initiate an industrial revival of the 
French watchmaking sector, as part of a rethought watchmaking process, thanks to the close collaboration with 4 university research partners and 6 SMEs, most of them located in Franche-Comté.
For this purpose, the consortium aimed at the design, production and assembly of blanks and components for the casing, generally using new materials, and designed with a rethought process thanks to innovative processes.
In particular, our company provided its expertise in the development of watch assembly machines, based on cobotics, in order to combine human intelligence and flexibility to the high precision and robustness of the assembly machine.
