About
Pole Mecatech is the Walloon Pole of competitiveness dedicated to the industrial ecosystem and processes. We offer services to industries and solution/tech providers in Wallonia to improve performance, connections and innovation of manufacturing processes, materials and products. We focus our actions on 5 economic fields:
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Sustainable energy
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Defence and Secury
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Circular economy (materials, metal, batteries and transport)
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Industry of the future (technologies 4.0)
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MedTech (medical devices & digital health)
Pole Mecatech is involved in the regional strategy (S3 - WIN4C and MadeInWal) and several EU projects like Walhub (EDIH), GEMSTONE (Eurocluster programmes), and acts in strong collaboration with the Walloon Agency of Export and Investments (AWEX)
Other enabling technologies
Manufacturing and machine learning, e.g., to increase the flexibility of industrial processes, modular approaches, reduce use of materials, quality assurance and certification of products)Industry 4.0 technologies (IoT, big data analytics) for monitoring and managing circular value chains(Advanced/smart) Sensors, e.g., enabling materials, components and product flows measurementRobotic / handling - and assistance systems(Advanced) Materials and additive manufacturingLife cycle assessment / Product life cycle management – e.g., Digital Twin / Digital Product PassportReverse Manufacturing (e.g. adaptive automation for high variance, sorting, sophisticated logistic systems)
Data technologies, data ecosystems and cross-linking
(AI based) recognition systems (e.g. image recognition) to evaluate materials, components and products and determine the best use paths(AI based) process and system control technologies(AI based) Material and Product Design, Decomposition and SeparationSimulation models and predictive analytics to assess the scalability of circular processes across industriesAlgorithm that shows the (positive) impact of a Circular Economy process or Circular Economy productApproaches to support SME fully exploit the value of existing CVC-related dataDesign of an adaptable Digital Product Pass