The excellence of Gefran’s products for the measurement and control of thermal processes stems from a continuous development of the Company’s distinctive technologies. Technological integration along the entire production chain – from the primary elements of the sensors to the application firmware – accelerates and provides depths to product innovation.

High-performance sensors and automation components, combined with Gefran’s deep application expertise, open up new horizons for the optimisation of customers’ production processes. Gefran’s Research & Development translates decades of experience alongside machine builders into algorithms and features specific to each market segment.

Gefran’s innovation goes beyond the physical boundaries of products: an increasing number of products come with algorithms and applications that expand their functional features and can be implemented both on local computing resources, such as PLCs and Edge controllers, and in the Cloud.

Gefran’s product and system architectures are open and scalable, as they rely on the most modern and widespread communication and development standards on the market. This approach accelerates product evolution and simplifies the introduction of Gefran products into customers’ machines and plants.

Gefran’s approach to open innovation goes much further: the use of standard protocols and languages enables collaboration with a very wide ecosystem of partners, in order to generate new ideas and solutions.

Gefran has drawn from the best academic skills since it was established, through joint research projects with leading Italian universities. Gefran’s innovation ecosystem extends beyond national borders, thanks to collaboration with research institutes, start-ups and business partners in Europe and around the world. In particular, “co-innovation” together with world-leading market builders is Gefran’s privileged way of creating solutions that redefine the boundaries of what is possible in our target sectors.

Gefran’s Research & Development is nourished by a constantly evolving portfolio of skills: in addition to roles requiring deep knowledge of the transduction of physical measurements and power electronics, there are professionals such as software developers and additive manufacturing experts. The skills horizon has recently expanded with professionals specialised in the creation of product and process “digital twins”, experts in data architectures, data scientists capable of uniting AI techniques and process competence.

Attracting the best professionals is only the first part of the competence portfolio development process for Gefran. It is with internal growth and continuous training that Gefran employees reach the level of expertise that allows them to make a difference in the market and in our customers’ factories.