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At the heart of the digital revolution, SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION Competitiveness Cluster aims at making the Paris-Region one of the leading regions in the field of complex systems. Complex systems play a key role in the management, supervision, regulation and control of today’s society, especially in the fields of trade, finance, health, security, energy, transport, environment, defence, etc. The main goal of the Cluster in these fields is to develop the economy, the competitiveness, the company’s business and the employment. How? By promoting innovation, training and partnerships.
Chaired by a representative from Thales Group, the Cluster gathers enterprises (SMEs and major industrial groups) specialized in the design and management of complex systems, e.g. Alcatel, Bull, Dassault Aviation, EADS, France Telecom, Motorola, Renault, SAFRAN, etc. Located mainly in the south-west of the Paris-Region, these companies work in partnerships with laboratories from the CEA, the CNRS and the INRIA, and with leading academic centers such as the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole Centrale Paris, Supélec, the University of Paris-Sud 11.
The Cluster also benefits from the support of public local authorities, of the French Government as well as economic development agencies (OSEO and the National Research Agency).
The Cluster’s target markets are : Automotive & Transportation, Telecoms, Security & Defence, System Design and Development Tools. 
 Commissariat Energie Atomique
The work on the methods and tools of conception and validation lead by the LIST teams have already been adopted in the industrial fields implicated in the development of embedded real time software. The LIST considers “Usine Logicielle” as a channel to disseminate its technologies near new partners, to verify the validity of developed solutions on new fields of application, to increase and broaden its scientific competences, and to stay like this thanks to innovating and efficient solutions, a privileged partner in the preponderant software system industry.  Communication et Systèmes
CS, conceiver, integrator and operator of critical systems is an SSII on the foreground of its markets (first on the French market of industrial and critical applications, PAC study) CS follows its customers on a long term basis while bringing them the best adapted solutions to their needs and their budgets. CS conceives, integrates and exploits applications, systems and critical infrastructures and provides to its clients the most innovating technologies to build global high performance solutions.
 Dassault Aviation
As a major aeronautical constructor in the business of aviation and of the European defence industry, Dassault Aviation manages numerous programs operated within an international collaboration. Assuring the interoperability of engineering procedures between partners of these programs makes the quick implementation of exchange, transformation and verification tools for design models a must. This issue is at the heart of the Usine Logicielle work program and also a permanent improvement effort for increasing the productivity of the Dassault Aviation procedures.  EADS CCR
The “corporate” EADS Centre of Research develops innovating technologies and methods for the subsidiary of the EADS group (such as Airbus, EADS ST, Eurocopter, MBDA). The engineering systems are an important axis of research to EADS: the processes for developing airspace vehicles are characterised by the complexity of its products/systems, the important number of partners cooperating in a program and the security and strong certification constraints. Thanks to new information technologies and particularly those developed in OpenDevFactory sub project, EADS CCR aims is to improve EADS engineering systems, in allowing the global mastering of the product/system throughout its life cycle.  EADS Space Transportation
EADS SPACE Transportation is a prime manager of the European Ariane 5 launcher, of the resupplying vehicle for the international ATV special station, of the European Colombus laboratory, of the manufacturing of missiles of the French dissuasion force and of other complex spatial systems. The definition of these complex systems is characterized by a large diversity of disciplines put into place in the engineering processes up to the factoring steps. Regarding the conception of embedded computer architectures, there exists a strong interdependence between Software and material engineering solutions and iterations are necessary during the refinement of the functional definition of the launching system or of the space vehicle, which can even happen during the construction of the products. EADS ST is expecting from IDM to allow the unification of different kinds of engineering activities which are used for the design of such systems in order to increase the productivity and decrease the mean time necessary for their development.
 Electricité de France
EDF SA the French historical operator operates on most of the electrical businesses, from production up to the marketing. In France, more than 85% of the electrical production depends on the 58 nuclear reactors. After 25 years of operation in the field, EDF’s objective is to extend the life of its installations to more than 40 years. This necessitates being able to master the costs of realisation and verification of the software components which will have to be renovated. The technological evolution of these software components requires to endowe ourselves with new tooling approaches in order to insure that they are able to fulfil their mission in a nuclear security context.
 Esterel
Esterel Technologies is a software editor which develops and markets development tools for critical embedded software in the airspace, automobile, transportation and energy domains. SCADE Suite is a modelling tool which contains a code generator qualified at the level A of the DO- 178B standard for the aeronautical applications and which is IEC 61508 certified for the transportation and energy applications. SCADE Drive supplies the same functionalities for the automobile domain. The Esterel technologies participation with Usine Logicielle allows the integration of theses tools in specific engineering suite, for example with UML/SysML link.  Hispano Suiza
At the heart of the aeronautical equipments branch of the SAFRAN Group, Hispano-Suiza has a highly visible place in mechanical transmission of power, electrical and hydraulic systems and equipments, electronic power and actioners, for civil and military aircrafts motors. With FADEC International (Joint Venture, 50/50 Hispano-Suiza / BAE Systems) Hispano-Suiza is a privileged partner of the world wide biggest motorists since several decades and a world wide leader of the numeric regulation of more than 100 places civil aircrafts motors. Hispano-Suiza participates in the Usine Logicielle project for its R&T activities applied to the analysis and test generation which are able to bring substantial gains in terms of reliability as well as in cost. Hispano-Suiza targets in this project critical embedded systems and software.  Institut Français du Pétrole
IFP is a research and industrial development, training and information services centre active in the fields of oil and gas, their use (in particular by vehicles), and the new energy and environmental technologies (pro-duction of fuels from biomass, synfuels, hydrogen, the capture and storage of CO2, etc.). In an international energy context marked by major challenges - renewing petroleum reserves, broadening the energy mix and combating climate change -, IFP's vocation is to innovate, developing and transferring the technologies that will make it possible to supply enough energy to meet growing world needs, especially in the transport and petrochemical sectors, lastingly and without harm to the environment, for the rest of the 21st century.
 Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
INRIA, which stands for “institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique” is operating under the control of both ministry of research and ministry of industry and has for mission to carry on the fundamental and applied research programs in the science and information technology domains. The institute handles technology transfer programs paying much attention to training through research, to scientific and technical information dissemination, to valuation, to expertise and to the participation to international programs. The INRIA’s participation in Usine Logicielle allows integrating prototypes issued from research activities of its different teams as for example the ATL model transformation environment and its associated tools coming from the AMMA model engineering platform.  Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris VI
LIP6 stands for “laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie ». It has a population of more than 400 research workers. The LIP6 brings to Usine Logicielle its expertise in the domain of systems on chips modelling (SoCs). Within MoDriVal, the LIP6 provides to System@tic pôle the SoCLib virtual prototyping platform, and implements several simulation assistance tools as well as tuning and debugging utilities for software applications which have to be deployed on chips.  Laboratoire de Recherche Informatique
The software development and software engineering team of the LRI has obtained these last years, significant results on the software testing discipline from using formal models. These results have been applied to the Lustre language by the CEA (GATeL tool). In MoDriVal, the objective is to extend the GATeL system with random test generation which distribution is modulated depending on the model and of a coverage criteria. The advantage of this approach is that it automates the intensive tests of critical systems.  Research & Technology Applied
MBDA is the first fully integrated European defence company. MBDA was the leader in Europe and now is the worldwide leader since 2005. MBDA is managing most of the most advanced missiles programs in the world. Aster, Storm Shadows/Scalp EG and Meteor are examples of international programs that MBDA manages. MBDA participates to Usine Logicielle as it matches its R&T activities for disruptive technologies which are able to bring significant gains in term of reliability and development costs. MBDA targets in that project the architecture tool chains and the digital systems with large algorithmic content which have to be both reliable and run in real time.  Ecole Polytechnique
The Polytechnique school participates to the Usine Logicielle project through the chair of “Engineering of complex systems”. This chair is a transversal structure of the school which is dedicated to the development and coordination of the whole teaching and research activities related to the modelling of industrial systems and their engineering processes. Polytechnique focuses within Usine Logicielle in one hand on an exhaustive state of the art study of systemic modelling practices and in another hand on the modelling of the physical environments of control and commands systems.  Softeam
Softeam is a french leader on the UML modelling tool market and a leader in consulting and training in the new technologies domain. Softeam participates to Usine Logicielle on the aspect of modelling software engineering processes. Reusing the PRO3 tooling environment issued from a previous Eureka project and soon available on the market, Softeam integrates that toll in the OpenDevFactory environment and extends the features in order to provide a more comprehensive guidance of projects by process enactment.  Supélec
Supelec is a high school well known in the domain of sciences of energy and sciences of information. Every year 440 engineers are graduated from Supelec. One part of its software research team focuses to different aspects of model driven engineering. In Usine Logicielle, its works are directed toward formalizing and combining heterogeneous models for system design and on the use of relationships between design models for validation of system properties.  Thales Group
Operating in France for more than one century, Thales is a global electronic operator in aerospace, defence and services. Making business in more than 30 countries the company’s weights more that 60000 people and creates more that 10 billions Euros of revenue a year (2004 numbers). Building systems containing much technology, it is vital for Thales to anticipate technological breakthrough and to provide a clear and homogeneous vision to the divisions of the company in all the technological critical domains. The model driven engineering technologies fall obviously in that breakthrough context. The efforts for specifying the technology foundations used to build future software engineering tools and real time embedded system engineering tool sets are spent within Usine Logicielle.  Trialog
Trialog’ mission is to help its customers to integrate innovative technologies in their products and to man-age the evolution of their design process in order for them to master the increasing complexity of products. Trialog’s business is characterised by the combination of complementary software development approaches like model driven engineering and component based engineering which targets to build complex systems by assembly of reusable elements. Trialog focuses in Usine Logicielle in the transition from model to components , which means more precisely on the deployment of software code corresponding to models on a component based software architecture.
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