Supporting companies, facilitating, innovating: faced with the challenges of digital and new technologies, Mines Saint-Étienne unveils its strategy focused on Industry 4.0. Discover its 2020-2023 development axes, its strengths, and its ambition to strengthen its leadership, particularly in three areas: metal additive manufacturing, the Internet of Things, and the health of the future.
With 200 years of excellence, our School is looking to the future with the ambition to play a leading role in the industry of the future, in line with the strategy of the IMT, Institut Mines-Télécom, the leading French group of engineering and management graduate schools
Our development strategy prioritizes two development axes for 2020-2023:
Strengthening technological innovation at national and international levels:
→ Consolidate its leadership in 3 key areas of Industry 4.0: metal additive manufacturing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the health of the future, with the development of already recognized technological platforms: IT’m Factory and #FutureMedicine.
→ Amplify partnership research via industrial and European contracts.
Supporting innovation and the economic development of the region:
→ Become a major player in the Campus Région du Numérique in Lyon with the establishment of the DIWII technological platform this autumn, led by the School and EM Lyon and involving other public and private partners.
→ Anchor the Georges Charpak Provence Campus in the economic dynamics of the Sud region, thanks to its high-performance microelectronics ecosystem.
→ Develop bridges between Lyon and Saint-Étienne in engineering, by boosting collaborations with INSA Lyon, École Centrale de Lyon, ENTPE, and the University of Lyon.
Focus on two flagship projects:
DIWII (opening in September 2020): “Digital Intelligence Way for Industry Institute” – Technological expertise platform in Lyon-Charbonnières on the Campus Région du Numérique.
- Supports companies in France’s leading industrial region in their digital, societal, and environmental transition toward the industry of the future (strategy, organization, human resources, technologies).
- Tests organizational choices in a secure environment
- Provides concrete answers to companies by capitalizing on synergies between training, research, and transfer in a multidisciplinary approach.
- Management: École des Mines de Saint-Étienne with nationally and internationally recognized partners, both public and private: EM Lyon, Sigma Clermont-Ferrand, Siemens…
TWIN (opening in 2022): Technological and digital platform in Saint-Étienne (industrial campus)
- Specializing notably in metal and ceramic additive manufacturing, it will also host the IT’m Factory platform.
- Industrial tool providing companies with skills in training, research, and innovation to solve organizational and production problems.
- Management: École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
