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28 October 2020
Industry of the Future: The Ramp-up in Technological Competencies of SMEs. The Case of Industrial Companies
The report of the National Academy of Technologies of France on the industry of the future, as well as a number of economic studies, show that large French industrial companies are progressing well, and that on the whole the major industrial customers and their first-level suppliers have had positive operating results. ISEs, of which there are still not enough, and most SMEs, which have been able to adapt their strategic positioning and upgrade their industrial facilities, are performing well. However, a considerable number of SMEs and VSEs (or MICs) are not in this enviable position and this subject is at […]
21 September 2018
The rise in technological skills of SMEs: the case of industrial companies
On 20 September at Dassault Systèmes Prime Minister Édouard Philippe presented the government’s plan to transform French industry through digital technology, stating that “this new industrial revolution must not remain the prerogative of a few groups”. At approximately the same time, the National Academy of Technologies of France, in a report adopted in plenary session on 12 September, calls for a general and immediate mobilisation to boost the technological skills of industrial SMEs. After the publication of the report “Industry of the future: from the technical system 4.0 to the social system” (2017), the National Academy of Technologies of France […]
10 July 2017
A robot-intensive strategy to re-industrialize France – Advice note
Advice Note adopted by vote by the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF)in Plenary session, July 5, 2017 In the framework of the Programme “A new industrial France” and with the perspective of seeing French robotics playing a key role in the re-industrialization of our economy with a restoral of national competitivity on the global market-place, the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) has analysed and presents herein a status report on French robotics. The Academy underscores the challenges the country must face and issues recommendations to reposition the French robotics sector in terms of international competition. Current […]
21 April 2016
Technology and climate change: several solutions to mitigate the effects and to adapt
The fight against the adverse effects of climate change has become a civilization issue, as much as is the objective to seek ‘peace on Earth’. Thus, measures to ensure reduced GHG emissions and to allow for preventive adaptations are necessary as of now. The areas concerned are numerous: agriculture and forests, energy, urbanism and transportation, industrial sectors, coast-line preservation, qualitative and quantitative supplies of drinking water, new manufacturing modes and shared economies, lean and adaptive management of Earth’s resources and their utilizations … It is primordial, henceforward, to shift to a more intense level the actions engaged to date and […]
08 December 2015
Big data: a change of paradigm
The National Academy of technologies of France (NATF) invites French public authorities to intensively develop training schemes in Big Data techniques Big Data represents a change in paradigm such that public authorities would be advised to accompany the movement, notably in terms of education/training schemes and the major companies should be made more aware of what is at stake. In essence, this is the conclusion to the investigations and debates carried out at the Academy, embodied in an Academic Report* published recently, offering a full analysis of the “Opportunities vs. threats” of Big Data on French enterprises. Big Data represents […]
10 June 2015
Strategic challenges for additive fabrication
ADVICE NOTE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGIES OF FRANCE (NATF), approved by vote at the June 10, 2015 plenary session Additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) is defined by the French Standards Agency (AFNOR) as “the set of processes that lead to fabrication of a physical object, layer by layer, starting from a digital model”. It is defined in opposition to subtractive manufacturing (removing matter by machine processes). 3-D printing raises lots of hopes today and is often described in the media and in numerous publications as the key to industrial relocalisation in the developed nations. This […]
08 April 2015
Military robotics and consciousness
Military robots exist and are more and more used, on various operation theatres and in the different media: air (drones), sea, ground and even, maybe soon, space. Their market is strongly expanding. Used for observation, reconnaissance, demining and even firing (e.g. armed drones), they offer the advantage of positioning the servant away from the battlefield, thus reducing the friendly losses, and to be usually recoverable. Furthermore, cost reduction of equipment can be expected owing to the fact that the constraints linked to human presence on board are suppressed. Drones allow permanence on site that a piloted aircraft could not provide. […]
17 October 2012
“Metallurgy, science and engineering”, a joint report by the French Academy of Sciences, and the National Aacademy of Technologies of France. ED. EDP Sciences, Jan. 2011
Metallurgy, science and engineering, a joint Report by the French Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Technologies of France Ed. EDP Sciences, January 2011 Jan.14, 2011 Moderators: Prof. Yves QUERE, Member of the Academy of Sciences and Prof. André PINEAU, NATF Fellow. Abstract: If we can readily agree that the metallurgical industries are inevitably being reorganised into ‘world class’ sized entities, we must also do everything in our power to prevent this global trend weakening France’s position in this key sector. If the major French actors in the metallurgical sector cannot continue as they were able to […]
10 October 2012
Synthetic biology and (white) industrial biotechnologies
ADVICE NOTE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGIES OF FRANCE (NATF), approved by vote at the October 10, 2012 plenary session The National Academy of technologies of France (NATF) in this Advice Note throws light on issues that have accompanied the emergence of synthetic biology (SB) into the field of industrial biotechnological applications. The aim of the advice note is, on one hand, to identify the potential of this historic changeover from ‘naturalist’ biology to technology-intensive biology, in the contemporary context of industrial and societal challenges and, on the other, to propose various measures which if taken would favour […]