CSM's technological offer to the mechanics and land based transportation industry (i.e. rail, automotive, ship) is provided by integrating more and more performing and cost-effective materials with reliable processes able to satisfy the needs of transportation industries, taking advantage of a through-the-process concurrent engineering approach putting together the knowledge on materials, forming and surface technologies, virtual and physical modelling, and cost analysis.
Centro Sviluppo Materiali integrates modern design methodologies for structural integrity, fatigue, damage tolerance and crash worthiness with a knowledge on materials, manufacturing technologies, mathematical calculus and modelling in order to offer customized technological services to the mechanic and transportation industries.
The possibility of attaining lighter, safer, low environment impact and competitive life-cycle-cost components, frames and mechanical systems, allows Centro Sviluppo Materiali to provide processes or product solutions able to match the semi-product manufacturer's and end-user's needs.
New concepts are turned into real and more performing prototypes and so the choice of the specific Material conditions both the design, the aspects related to the semi-product development and those concerning its transformation into a complex-shaped component endowed with particular functional features, so becoming central in the whole development cycle.
In fact the availability of medium-size foundry facilities gives CSM the complete autonomous home-chance to cover all the experimental needs.
A rich set of standard instruments for microstructural & microanalitical analysis and mechanical testing, complemented by a strong elaborative power and physical and metallurgical modelling capabilities, allows CSM to define the best manufacturing practices for high quality flat, long and tubular semiproducts.