Thierry Gautreau, Project Manager

Profile: With 15 years of manufacturing advanced material in both production and innovation, Thierry’s skills are ideally suited to the integration of innovation technology into park machine, company organisation and business itself. Following 2 years successfully developing a new activity in Japan, he joined Cetim in 2012 as Head of innovation and modelling activities. He has been very active with SMEs to implement collaborative robotic solutions and Multiphysics simulation tools. Thiery has many contacts in the heartland of the bar-turning world to set-up a new pilot line dedicated to this specific market. He has interest in SMEs success and appreciates high quality innovative work.

Deja Djeapragache, Head of AM Activities

Profile: Djea has been working as International projects executive at CETIM in the Directorate for International Development. At CETIM he oversees European R&D activities. He has a Master Degree and a DESS (Diplôme d’Etude Supérieure Spécialisée) in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. He has gained more than twenty-five years’ experience in co-ordination and technical interventions in various R&D frameworks at National, European (FP, Leonardo, ERANET, INTERREG, Cleansky JU, FCH Ju) and International (Eurêka, IMS) levels. He is now responsible for global AM activities in CETIM.

Paul Calves, Pilot Line Project Manager

Profile: Paul had been very active for many years in metal powder process innovation. He was a pioneer with shock consolidation, a dynamic consolidation which is an experimental technic of consolidating powders using high pressure shock waves.

He is a key experienced engineer in powder process and very efficient to develop and industrialize additive manufacturing process. Paul currently coordinates MBJ pilot line project at Region level with a strong focus on accelerated innovation and industrialisation of advanced mechanical solutions. With Paul, SMEs are supported in development of demonstrated technology towards first industrial prototypes. Begin of 2018, 9 industrials have joined on our Metal Binder Jetting pilot line.

Benoit Verquin, Additive Manufacturing Chief Technologist

Profile: Beniot is a mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience in the field of advanced manufacturing technology, focusing on powder material research and innovative processes. Over the last 14 years Benoit has been mainly focused on of Laser beam melting but has worked on many AM technologies. He has worked with most of the mechanical French companies in various industrial sectors which had tested this technology from research program to exploitation. Beniot helped the first French medical company to produce medical polymer device in serial, 12 year ago. More recently he helped the first French orthopaedic implant manufacturer to go on serial production on metallic implants.

Driven by demand of French companies and SME’s, he has settled different pilot lines with Laser Beam technology and coordinated development activities in industrial conditions. He has recently taken over responsibility to buy and run a rising new technology, Metal Binder Jetting, cost efficient for extensive markets. Benoit Verquin has experience in managing multi partners research programs, including European as SASAM project, and French projects: Fadiperf, Orthopée, MI-3D.

Benoit is very active in standard development in the field of Additive including the UNM920, CEN238 and ISO/TC261. Benoit is recognized as one of the French’s leading experts in the field of additive manufacturing with over 50 conferences in this field.

Florence Doré, Powder Metallurgy Research Engineer

Profile: Florence has focussed her activity in powder processes: compaction, sintering and past years in additive manufacturing. She has supported numerous industrial companies with a large range of materials: steels, carbides, ceramics and polymers. Driven by SME’s and innovative companies, Florence Doré had developed a technological platform dedicated to powders with compaction, sintering and characterisation equipment.

She has been head of training program for many years. From working primarily on generic additive manufacturing sessions in the beginning, she has initiated specific programs on design, inspection and many other necessary capabilities in additive manufacturing implementation.

Patrick Ebadi, SMEs Innovation Support

Profile: Patrick has extensive experience working with SMEs. A Mechanical Engineer and Business graduate, he has made judgement in SMEs for more than 15 years. Implementing a new technology is a strategic decision coming from top management and organization throughout the organization. With his experience of consulting, he is now managing an AM commercialization project founded by and dedicated to the French Centre-Val-de-Loire region.

Fabien Lefebvre, Principal Research Engineer (Fatigue)

Profile: Fabien is the research and development Manager at CETIM, specifically in the department of Fatigue of Mechanical Components. He has developed different methods to measure and manage residual stresses in industrials applications. Fabien Lefebvre is recognised as one of the leading experts in the field of residual stresses and is very active in this field; he is co-chairman of Fatigue commission in SF2M association, Chairman of French Group of Residual Stress Analyses (GFAC) and Chairman of international conference of Fatigue Design having previously completed his PhD in the Micromechanical assessment of fatigue in airframe fusion welds.