- The excellence of customer relations
- The quality and commitment of the people who work in the group
- The ability we have to develop an innovative offer
A key factor in our development over the last 100 years, our ability to innovate enables us to adapt to changes in the energy sector in order to be a leading player in the energy transition. Innovation is at the heart of our differentiation and creates the value our customers expect.
Every year we reinvest over 8% of our turnover in R&D, because for a company like Socomec, R&D is a major issue!
As a specialist, Socomec must differentiate itself from the competition thanks to successful products and services at the cutting edge of innovation. This ability to innovate technologically enables it to position itself sustainably in the face of competitors who are often generalist and larger.
This differentiation is the result of a deep understanding of markets and customer needs, as well as effective R&D. This effectiveness is manifested both by technological skill and innovation, and by a well-managed ability to execute new offers. Judicious technological anticipation, coupled with successful execution of developments, is essential to ensure the success of effective R&D.
Our responsibilities
- Propose new innovative building blocks that can be integrated into future development projects.
- Know how to combine the right technologies at the right cost and with the right level of quality, while complying with well-managed deadlines to launch new product and service offers onto the market.
Our challenges
- Master the cost, quality and deadlines of new products while managing over 20 projects simultaneously!
- Identify the relevant topics to be explored upstream (sometimes several years before the launch of product development) and bring these technologies to maturity. It is also a question of achieving a high level of differentiation from the competition, which requires constant technology watch.
Bring out new ideas by bringing teams closer together, promoting sharing and communication. Marketing, Research, Development, Engineering, Design, Digital, our Innovation division, based in Benfeld, brings together over 350 people who design and develop the products, services and solutions of tomorrow in close proximity to our other centres of excellence in Italy, China and North America.
Our teams are mainly made up of engineers and technicians with a solid academic background, capable of making concrete and realistic transformations. Their level of technical competence is high and enables them to understand state-of-the-art technologies.