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Service / FPMS – Génie mécanique

Machine Design and Production Engineering Unit

A continuum of activities from CAD to Asset management 5.0 Mechanical manufacturing technologies and mechanical design. Reliability, industrial maintenance and 5.0

Machine Design and Production Engineering Unit provides a coherent set of training courses, ranging from geometry, the central discipline of mechanics, to the design and organisation of production lines and asset management 5.0. Training ranges from the 1st year of the Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and Architectural Engineering to the 2nd year of the Master’s degree in Engineering. The Unit also supervises doctoral theses and participates in continuing education activities in total quality management.

The supervision of design projects (manufacturing technology in the 3rd year of the Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering; machine design,  industrial projects, Shell Eco-marathon and Eurobot in Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering) is the major educational investment of the Unit. These project activities can be considered in an international interdisciplinary context.

Four coherent blocks can be identified:

  • Geometry, graphic methods, topography, dimensional metrology
  • Mechanical manufacturing technology
  • Machine construction
  • Design, organisation and maintenance of production units - Operational excellence - Asset management & 5.0

Our research activities are focused on modelling and experimentation in manufacturing technology (conventional and robotic machining, additive manufacturing; metals, composites, ceramics), mechanical design, maintenance and asset management 5.0. The Unit hosts the GMAKE prototyping laboratory, which is open to UMONS members and our partners.

Contact person

Pierre DEHOMBREUX
Pierre DEHOMBREUX
Bâtiment Joncquois - GMECA
53, Rue du Joncquois
7000 Mons
+32 (65) 374548
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Some numbers

  • 15
    Researchers
  • 10
    PhD students
  • 40
    Publications per year
  • 10
    Current projects
Service / FPMS - Génie mécanique

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