Recent milestones for mechatronics in Trentino

[...] Fati Engineering is a consulting company established within the Padua-based Fati group, which for sixty years has operated in the following sectors: industrial, HVAC, household appliance, motorcycle, automotive, sportcar and transmission. Decisive in the decision to move to Rovereto was the need to be even closer to its customers. In fact, many of them, including Dana, are based within the mechatronics incubator.The startup's team consists of 12 engineers with an average age between 30 and 32 and different study backgrounds, from mechanics to aerospace via industrial chemistry.

The company focuses on designing customized solutions in automotive and sportscars, motorcycles, home appliances, heating and cooling systems, industrial automation, and transmissions, with a focus on the green transition. CEO Federico Segalina explains, "Our primary goal is sustainability declined in all three of its connotations: environmental, i.e., the use of environmentally friendly materials transformed through lower-emission processes; economic, understood as the reduction of costs; and social, i.e., developing automation to reduce repetitive work.To this end, we are concerned, for example, with reducing the presence of carbon in mechanical systems or reducing weights through the use of polymers or other innovative and intelligent materials still little explored in the relevant markets."

The projects are carried out in close collaboration with the University of Padua, the Polytechnic University of Milan, DTU-Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen, and the Higher Institute for Educational Research in Venice. "Now," Segalina concludes, "we would also like to open a dialogue with the University of Trento to include new figures, particularly designers, in the working group and bring part of the prototype production to Rovereto. To this end, we have also already made contact with the Marconi Technological Technical Institute in Rovereto to start up school-to-work alternation and specific training courses for their students and new graduates."