2023-05-02 09:30:34
During the Global Industrie 2023 trade show, the leaders of these three leading entities in the French mechanical engineering world announced the birth of Mecallians, a common banner that will accelerate the transformation of the mechanical industries.
This gathering of a federation (the FIM), its technical center (the CETIM) and its standardization office (the UNM) is unprecedented in France.
When historical players want to breathe new life into the mechanical industry
Mecallians is the union of three major entities, which have contributed to the history of the French mechanical sector and still contribute to it.
The Fédération des Industries Mécaniques (FIM) is an industrial federation that brings together 19 professional mechanics unions and whose origins date back to 1840. A true voice for the companies it represents, it is a lever of influence, power, notoriety and attractiveness.
At the end of the Second World War, French industry had to be rebuilt and to a large extent developed. It is in this context that the law of July 22, 1948 acts the creation of the legal status of technical center. In 1961, the FIM then decided to provide all its professions with technical centres, technological research structures playing a major role in the process of technological transfer and innovation.
This will lead, in 1965, to the creation of the Center Technique des Industries Mécaniques (CETIM), the French center of mechanical expertise.
Finally, in 1977, in order to meet the growing needs of mechanics in terms of standards, the FIM and the CETIM created the Union de Normalization de la Mécanique (UNM).[1]the sectoral standardization office working by delegation from AFNOR.
By announcing the creation of Mecallians in March 2023, the FIM, the CETIM and the UNM reaffirm a historical fact, which is the belonging to the same family, with the desire to project themselves into the future.
A common banner to promote the French mechanical industry
In a recent interview, Christophe Garnier, CETIM’s communications director, told us that Mecallians’ raison d’être is to “Show politicians and professionals alike that there is a real structure in France capable of defending the profession and projecting it into the future. »
This common banner has the following objectives in particular:
- carry the fights of the mechanical industry in France as elsewhere;
- protect our industry;
- strengthen innovation;
- provide education, in order to strengthen the attractiveness of the sector vis-à-vis the youngest;
- design a positive future that reconciles industry and ecology.
Mechanical actors are indeed at the heart of energy and environmental issues, because a large part of the current challenges are mechanical challenges.
According to Christophe Garnier, “the technological and support strategy for CETIM SMEs is set by performance contracts co-signed by CETIM, the FIM and the State. If the current contract ends at the end of 2023, we already know that, unsurprisingly, the environmental and energy transition will be one of the main axes of the next contract. This theme will obviously be carried by Mecallians”.
Mecallians looks to the future and to young people
Like many industrial sectors, the world of mechanics also needs to attract new talent. If mechanics suffer from a lack of visibility, they are nevertheless essential, because they serve all sectors of the industry.
In the press release announcing the creation of Mecallians, Henri Morel, President of the FIM, explains that “In the development of our societies, in the march of human progress, mechanics has always played a decisive role. Like the engine, which has forever transformed mobility, it is what sets the world in motion. At the heart of all the industrial revolutions, from the steam engine, to digital and interconnectivity, via robotics, it has enabled the development of industry and shaped our way of life. This common banner must enable us to create new conditions, solutions and standards for a positive future.”.
During the industrial revolution, mechanics was then a high technology and we spoke of the mechanization of society. Over time, mechanics has become a basic technology and it has been integrated so well that we no longer see it.
Christophe Garnier specifies: “It is up to us to prove that mechanics is part of the solution to the challenges of tomorrow. Hence the slogan of Mecallians: mechanics move the world, it’s up to us to move the mechanics. »
To put forward mechanics, Mecallians will therefore have to teach and show the younger generations that it is as attractive as digital technologies, which are the current cutting-edge technologies. This will be done in particular through industry 4.0.
Finally, if Mecallians is only at the beginning of its history, the alliance is called upon to strengthen and evolve, because according to Christophe Garnier, Mecallians was created with a desire for openness.
“The alliance should be further strengthened soon, with the arrival of other partners. The idea is that all players in the mechanics ecosystem who so wish can cling to this common banner. »
[1] L’UNM
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