CIMES is a French "competitiveness cluster" located in both regions Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle-Aquitaine and dedicated to mechanical engineering, manufacturing and production performance. Our mission is to coordinate the highly-innovative ecosystem gathering the stakeholders from industry, academic and research communities in order to think, develop and industrialize processes, products and services in the framework of Industry 4.0. We gather companies (SMEs and big groups), research centers (private and public) and education stakeholders with the aim of accelerating innovation and enabling the emergence of innovative collaborative projects. Our large ecosystem is composed of more than 500 members.

We defend what we call the “culture of integration” meaning that we support the idea that digital technologies are useful tools for companies but not a stake in itself. Digitization must serve manufacturing companies' needs and challenges before all. This idea is fully integrated in our thematic roadmap built around three main topics: Engineering for Manufacturing, Materials and Surfaces, Integrated Robotics and Production Efficiency, Optimized engineering for sustainable systems. This roadmap enables us to develop our cross-sectoral dimension giving us the opportunity to deal with the traditional industrial sectors like aeronautics and automotive and to diversify our activity with sectors like health, agriculture, agrifood, energy…