CEFRIEL SOCIETA CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA

Cefriel is a no-profit center, based in Milan, with offices in New York, and London.CEFRIEL shareholders include Universities (Politecnico di Milano, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università Degli Studi dell’ Insubria), Public Administration (Lombardy Region), and leading multinational companies in ICT, Media sectors, and Energy.

Since its inception in 1988, Cefriel mission has been to help SMEs and companies grow by exploiting digital technologies to create or reinvent their processes, products, and services, strengthen existing ties between the academic and business worlds through a multidisciplinary approach that innovates products and services with ICT and Design. Thanks to its distinctive operative model, CEFRIEL creates innovative solutions based on customer requirements and integrating the most recent scientific research results, the best technologies available on the market, the emerging standards, and the reality of business processes.

As a Center of Excellence, CEFRIEL is able to merge technical and design skills with business and process expertise, thus supporting companies throughout the entire innovation cycle, from idea generation to product/service development. Thanks to its distinctive operative model, CEFRIEL creates innovative solutions based on customer requirements and integrating the most recent scientific research results, the best technologies available on the market, the emerging standards and the reality of business processes.

Multidisciplinary skills, from creativity to the execution of complex innovation projects, recommend CEFRIEL as a unique partner able to develop a wide range of forefront solutions that integrate hardware, software and the most advanced multimedia communication technologies, often mixing the expertise of its many “vertical” practices and leveraging its proprietary methodologies to speed-up value delivery, such as Agile Project Management, Visual “Mock-upping” and Fast Prototyping.

CEFRIEL competencies span all areas of ICT expertise, from microelectronics to the most advanced user experience models. Moreover, CEFRIEL know-how covers the development of innovative services and solutions, particularly for Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Mobile & Wearable & AR/VR, AI, ML, Big Data & Analytics, Cloud Computing, API Economy & Distributed Architecture, Information Security, addressing both technical and project management issues.

With a human capital of around 140 highly qualified professionals and the contribution of academic professors and researchers, CEFRIEL is a reference body of knowledge in Europe. CEFRIEL experts are highly qualified people with different levels of seniority and multiple academic degrees (post-degree master, MBA, Ph.D.).

Project activities are carried out using instrumental labs equipped with state-of-the-art tools. In this proactive environment, creative concepts and ideas rapidly lead to mock-ups and prototypes. In the smart manufacturing context, Cefriel activities focus on bringing digital innovation to companies and manufacturing plants.Cefriel does more than 100 projects every year,totally paid by companies, in Italy and worldwide, to support companies and SMEsin their digitalisation path.

 Cefriel is a member of POLIHUB, the start-up ACCELERATOR OF Politecnico DI Milano (https://www.polihub.it/);

 Cefriel is a member of EIT Digital, and it hosts the Milan Node, with a co-working space;

 From December 2018, Cefriel is the Italian national hub of IDSA (Industrial Data Space Association, https://www.internationaldataspaces.org), supporting the creation of secure exchange and easy linking of data in business ecosystems based on standards and joint governance models;

 From 2016, Cefriel is also SUPPORTING MEMBER of The Italian Technology Cluster “Intelligent Factories” http://www.fabbricaintelligente.it/;

 Cefriel is a member of MADE (Italian Competence Center led by Politecnico di Milano);

 Cefriel is a member of MEDITECH (Italian Competence Center led by Università Federico II di Napoli e Salerno);

Cefrielis a national certified "Center for industry 4,0 Technology Transfer Center" by MISE. As Technology Transfer Center 4.0 (CTT 4.0), Cefriel carries out training and consultancy activities, as well as the provision of technology transfer services to companies in the areas of operation identified by the Ministry of Economic Development