Manufacturing and Additive Manufacturing

Manufacturing is an engineering discipline dealing with various manufacturing sciences and practices, ranging from design to development of systems, processes, machines, tools and equipment. Additive manufacturing refers to mainly computer-assisted processes whereby material is added layer-by-layer.

Three factors confirm Centrale Nantes’ position a major player in this field: 20 years of expertise, major testing facilities and 9 research groups focused on this topic.

Research groups

    

• MEO - Materials-Environment-Structures
• PMM - Processes and Mechanics of Materials
• ICI - Institute of High Performance Computing
• REV - Robotics And Living Organisms
• IS3P - Systems Engineering: Products, Performance, Perceptions
• PACCE - Perception, Action, Cognition for Design and Ergonomics
• STR - Real Time System
• RoMAS - Robots and Machines for Manufacturing, Society and Services
  
• SIMS - Signal, Image and Sound