Research & Development
Paving the way for the next future
Constantly support and invest in new thinking. Turn ideas in new processes, products, services. MER MEC research takes care of making the transition from the mind to the market with a customer centric approach.
Investments in Research and Development have an important role for the company growth. They have continuously increased during the time and actually MER MEC R&D investment reaches 20% of the total revenue.
MER MEC tendency towards applied research activities and the will to invest in this field promotes the creation process of innovative products. Its competitive advantage comes from the integration of different technologies and from research multidisciplinarity. The results of the research activities are immediately brought to testing in the real operating environment with continuous monitoring of performances and reliability in order to get immediate feedback for system improvements and upgrade.
These distinctive aspects favour company participation to research programmes at regional, national and European level, close cooperations with Research Institutes and Universities for the acquisition of technological know-how, creation of partnerships and attraction of human resources.
R&D ACTIVITIES
- Monitoring and control systems of the permanent way
- Monitoring and control systems of railway catenary
- Railway Signalling systems
- Innovative materials for railway applications
- Demonstrators for railway industry
- Inspection and control systems for industrial applications
- Electronic systems for aerospace industry
Technological innovation, researchers recruitment, close relationships with the universities, and vocational training of our personnel represent our great challenges. We invest deeply in the industrial research to prepare our future aiming at a sustainable growth of the company
Patrizia Sforza
R&D Manager