About Us

PATRON consists of 9 Beneficiaries and 6 Associated partners, bringing together academic and industrial expertise in the fields of experimental and numerical Tribology, Signal Processing, Condition Monitoring, Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Prognosis, System Modelling and Machine Learning, which are all important components in the world of Prognostics and Health Management of new generation drivetrains, involving representatives from various industry stakeholder groups and research organizations, including a leading international high-technology supplier of systems and equipment for aerospace (SAFRAN group), a test & simulation solution provider (SISW), a global leader in agricultural and construction equipment, trucks, commercial vehicles, buses and specialty vehicles (CNHI) and a global leader in gearmotors, drive systems, planetary gearboxes and inverters for the industrial automation, mobile machinery and renewable energy sector (Bonfiglioli), a research centre (IKERLAN) and top level universities (KU Leuven, INSA, LTU, UNIFE, MGEP, UJM).