Name: Scientific Day : Digital Factory
Start: 2025-12-09T08:30:00+01:00
Location: Besançon

09 December 2025

Besançon

FEMTO, 15B Av. des Montboucons, 25000 BESANCON

The Digital Factory: Technological Innovations for Polymer and Composite Materials

Tags : Bourgogne-Franche-Comté - Industry of the future - Technical Days

Polymeris is organizing its annual Polymeris Science Day on December 9, 2025, in Besançon. This event is organized as part of the Polytronics project.

Part of the European program “Digitizing European Industry,” an EDIH is a group of stakeholders whose purpose is to create a single point of contact, either physical or virtual, to connect companies in their regions to the resources and ecosystems they need to successfully complete their digital transformation. Polytronics' goal is to support companies in the plastics, composites, and polymer materials industries in their digital transformation through artificial intelligence (AI).

It will focus on the “Digital Factory” section of our technology roadmap, with the aim of highlighting R&D projects relating to process monitoring, the integration of AI into processes, research into new materials, digitization, the use of digital technology for prediction purposes, etc.

This event is organized in collaboration with two of our members : Université Louis & Marie Pasteur and FEMTO-ST.

Program:

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.: Welcome coffee
9:00 – 9:05 a.m.: Presentation of the day – POLYMERIS
9:05 – 9:25 a.m.: Introductory remarks and presentation of UMLP – FEMTO ST – Michaël GAUTHIER and Philippe TRUCHOT, UMLP – FEMTO ST
9:25 – 10:10 a.m.: Round table: challenges and issues of digital transition in the polymer industry (under construction) - Léo CACCIARI, Amiltone | Gerold SCHRÖPFER, CEA-List | Philippe Lucien PRANDINI, VASI
10:10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.: Innovative Materials Session, Behavioral Prediction
- 10:10 – 10:30 a.m.: Innovative platform for studying the (bio)degradability of micropollutants through molecular simulation and AI - Nicolas FROLOFF, MS4ALL
- 10:30 – 10:50 a.m.: AI and formulation: towards an augmented formulator with access to AI-assisted knowledge and decision-making - Jabier MARTINEZ, TECNALIA
- 10:50 – 11:20 a.m.: Networking break
- 11:20 – 11:40 a.m.: AI-accelerated polymer discovery - Mathieu PUCHEAULT, SYNBOLI
- 11:40 – 12:00 p.m.: A compact model for the micro- to macro-scopic deformation behavior of natural short-fiber reinforced semi-crystalline polymer composites - Ndeye Fatim NIANG, UMLP - FEMTO ST
12:00 – 12:05 p.m.: Pitch: “Boost your ERP productivity with AI” - Emmanuel ESTEVES, EUREKA SOLUTIONS
12:05 – 1:40 p.m.: Lunch
1:40 – 2:20 p.m.: Europe Session
- 1:40 – 2:00 p.m.: Presentation of recent developments in process monitoring and the European IN CIRCULAR project - Philippe MONNET – Nicolas CUMIN, SISE
- 2:00 – 2:20 p.m.: General presentation of the European CIRCPLASTX project - Tjerk TIMAN, IPC
2:20 – 4:00 p.m.: Process Monitoring Session
- 2:20 – 2:40 p.m.: Two AI applications at BMW - Raphaël COUTURIER, UMLP - FEMTO ST
- 2:40 – 3:00 p.m.: Networking break
- 3:00 – 3:20 p.m.: Smart3, a collaborative AI platform that predicts, measures, and improves the reliability of advanced materials processes - Johann FOUCHER, POLLEN METROLOGY
- 3:20 – 3:40 p.m.: Laser marking: new solutions for online specialization of polymer products - Florent THIBAULT, QIOVA
- 3:40– 4:00 p.m.: Energy savings in rubber processing (instruments and data) - Stéphane DELAUNAY, ELANOVA LAB
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.: Tour session (optional and registration on the day) / 1 to 2 groups alternating
- MIFHySTO platform: micro-machining, development, and shaping of filled polymers
- Gérard MICHEL and Thierry BARRIERE