Industrial partners are associate non-academic partners of EMSE hosting students for internship or thesis’ work. They are members of the EMSE Task Force and take part in the development and evaluation of EMSE’s curriculum and its learning outcome against the market needs. Industrial partners are periodically invited to participate in EMSE lectures or summers schools. The Task Force meets annually.
Atos Societas Europaea is an international information technology services company with 2013 annual revenue of € 8.6 billion and 76,300 employees in 52 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers IT services through Consulting & Systems Integration, Managed Operations, and transactional services through Worldline, the European leader and a global player in the payments services industry. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, it works with clients across different business sectors: Manufacturing, Retail & Transportation; Public Sector & Health; Financial Services; Telcos, Media & Utilities. Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.
John Deere GmbH & Co is the biggest developer of agricultural and forestry technologies and the largest producer of machinery for agricultural production in Europe. In addition to machines and equipment, John Deere product lines comprise agricultural system solutions and services as well as sensor systems. In Europe the factory in Mannheim (John Deere Werke Mannheim, JDWM) is the most important site being the largest factory for agricultural machinery in Europe. Production and product development are characterized by an extremely high vertical range of manufacturing. The development center in Mannheim consists of about 500 engineers and provides a well equipped testing center with various test stands. Today, 60000 employees (6000 in Germany) are located at 65 factories and development center in 18 countries. John Deere products are delivered to more than 160 countries. The worldwide turnover is 24 billion euro. Within John Deere, its newly founded division European Technology Innovation Center (JD ETIC, Kaiserslautern) coordinates all RTD projects of JD European units. Its activities help John Deere make a quantum leap in sustainable technologies, ICT for automation, robotics, and worksite solutions as well as sensor technologies and machine knowledge systems.