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ACOME INSIDE “ACOME steps up innovation efforts.” Editorial by Jacques de HEERE, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the ACOME Group. “Combining innovation and co-development.” We hope that this magazine will give you the opportunity to see for yourself the commitment of our teams to meet the challenges of your markets and to recognise the value of the innovative solutions that they work on, most often in co-development with their customers. Interview with Aurélien BERGONZO, CONNECTION MAKERS Director of Group Research, Innovation and Technology. This first issue is focused on innovation...

A new generation of connected and scalable buildings The mobility of tomorrow will be increasingly electric and connected, and in the near future, autonomous. Digital and energy transitions in the building sector and the workstations of the future: an array of connectivity challenges. Mobility through innovation ACOME is charting its course in two key areas: power and on-board superfast broadband. Innovation-centric buildings Understanding future changing needs and preparing for the arrival of 5G in buildings. A close-up of our research centre Visit to the Group’s centre for research and expertise...

Contributors From acquiring technological building blocks to defining new products alongside our customers, innovation at ACOME is centred on the implementation of multidisciplinary working groups which involve functions such as forecasting, marketing, business development, research and technology, the design office and development. Christophe Canepa CONNECTION MAKERS Standardisation Manager /////////// Aurélia Gré Uses & industrial studies engineer – Research, innovation, technology & outlook department /////////// Mickaël Lecointre ACOME INSIDE Data Science Project Manager /////////// Philippe...

ACOME steps up innovation efforts /////////////////////////// Our ambition is to make ACOME an innovative Group that focuses its performance on new inventions, offering sustainable network development solutions, all while creating value for our customers. In a technology company, product commoditisation or Chairman and Chief Executive Officer trivialisation is a major risk. Through our ability to innoof the ACOME Group vate, we can reassure our customers that when they come to ACOME they will find cables suited to their needs today and solutions for the future, a future which, during this period...

Combining innovation and co-development Aurélien BERGONZO CONNECTION MAKERS Director of Group Research, Innovation and Technology (DRIT). His role: to improve the technological maturity of the various components involved in the manufacture of cables and systems, and provide business units with the technological building bricks. ACOME INSIDE into the conversation as we move forward with experimentation. We organise Tech Days. These are day events focused on ACOME innovations during which we present to our customers and partners the ideas – sometimes patented but often confidential – that we are...

The Group’s research, innovation and development policy is a long-term endeavour Are IoT, Data, and Artificial Intelligence part of the language at ACOME? A. B. : Traditionally, ACOME has expertise in two key processes in the cable industry: extrusion and cross-linking, driven by materials science. The forecasting work we have performed at DRIT has suggested stepping up our work in data science. Data science based on AI should become a new core technology at ACOME. We have improved our skills in this area by creating a process, product and system simulation unit. Data simulation and analysis...

Providing our customers with value through innovation The Research, Innovation and Development policy is aimed at supporting the ACOME Group in meeting the challenges of connected mobility from a technological and sustainability perspective, in keeping with the Group’s CSR policy and market conditions. 8

pecialising in products with high technological added value, ACOME has made innovation one of the drivers in how it creates value and expands. To address the challenges faced every day in the fiercely contested sectors of telecoms infrastructure networks, communications networks in smart buildings, automotive and rail, the Group commits 10% of its French workforce to research and development. The Group’s teams and expertise in materials and compounds science, technologies, simulation, test and qualification laboratories, industrial property and forecasting are mainly concentrated in France at...

Expertise CONNECTION MAKERS #1 Innovations ACOME INSIDE ticular in the areas of rheology and the study of the behavioural laws of plastic materials, the extrusion process and the multiphysical simulation of cables in the environment in which they will be used. The aim of exploring new areas in the data economy and artificial intelligence, for example, is good reason to develop skills in data science. Goal: to meet market demands by providing better quality solutions and reducing time to market. A TRADITION OF INNOVATION Innovation has been an integral part of ACOME’s history since it began. The...

Test laboratories Data Science Thousands of tests performed each year Models to predict fire behaviour Whatever its intended purpose, each new wire or cable requires no less than thirty mechanical, electrical or optical tests before receiving approval from the customer, operator or manufacturer. Thousands of tests are carried out each year in the test and qualification laboratory. Around a dozen people work to guarantee the performance expected by our customers and consolidate the image of ACOME as a high-quality industry leader. ACOME also has its own integrated fire test laboratory, accredited...