How we work
Our strength lies in going beyond conventional engineering: we do not only analyse and design, we also develop, integrate and put into practice technologies with real potential for industrial application.
Solutions for a more sustainable and competitive industry
After more than 20 years working on industrial projects, we hear from our clients, now more than ever, how industry is being challenged by competitiveness and sustainability.
We respond from three technology fields. Cleantech and decarbonization translate into renewable energy, new renewable molecules, thermal energy storage and zero-emission industries. Smart Industry integrates robotics, automation, simulation, digital twins, artificial intelligence and advanced control to achieve more agile, connected and sustainable processes.
These are not separate paths but complementary formulas that reinforce the efficiency, resilience and value of the industry of the future. That is why every CADE solution pursues both at once: a more competitive and a more sustainable industry.
From engineering to industrial reality
Four steps repeated in every project, whether it is an engineering study or a technology that has to be taken to the plant.
The client’s challenge
We identify the needs and challenges of industry, or anticipate them, by listening to our clients.
Solutions Factory
The method: listen to industry, generate ideas, assess them and develop the ones that prove valid.
Innovation Factory
A space where every technology can be tested, evolved and integrated into real projects.
Industrial reality
More than 2,500 projects delivered for more than 300 clients since 2003.
Solutions Factory
The Solutions Factory is the method CADE uses to turn the challenges of industry into real solutions.
We bring together people and teams from digital industry, clean technologies and decarbonization to listen to industry: what worries it, what it needs and what nobody has solved for it yet. Ideas are born from that listening.
Each idea is assessed with technical rigour, and those that prove valid are developed. From there we work with business development to size the market, shape them and take them to execution. In this way, what begins as a conversation with a client ends as a solution that works in the plant.
Innovation Factory
The Innovation Factory was created for the conception, development and materialisation of advanced industrial solutions.
We connect people and technologies, clients, partners and solutions in an ecosystem designed to create, show and demonstrate our vision of industrial transformation.
From proprietary technology to business area
Since 2009, CADE has carried out research, development and innovation activities around new technologies and industrial applications. The ideas that pass validation are worked on with business development to assess the market and execute them; several now give their name to a business area.
Supercritical water gasification to transform wet organic matter into renewable energy carriers.
Energy storage from electrical or thermal sources to supply industrial heat.
Robotic welding with machine vision and collaborative robotics to industrialise processes.
The bridge between R&D and its real implementation in industry: scale-up and industrialisation of processes.
A digital twin based on real-time simulation for the management of critical equipment.
Active monitoring and IoT to anticipate failures and protect photovoltaic installations.
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