MER MEC S.p.A

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MER MEC S.p.A
Type Private
Founded 1960's, incorporated 1988
Headquarters Monopoli, Bari, Italy
Industry Railway Diagnostics & Signalling
Products Railway Diagnostic Systems & Vehicles
Railway Signalling Systems
RAMSYS: Asset Management System
Diagnostic Services
Professional Services
Employees 225 (2007)
Website www.mermec.com

MER MEC S.p.A is an Italian company focused on rail inspection and diagnostics (both systems and vehicles), railway signalling, asset management software, diagnostic and professional services for the railway industry. Today, MER MEC is part of the MER MEC Group, an international holding company with more than 400 employees worldwide whose subsidiaries include USA based ImageMap Inc., Italy based Tecnogamma S.p.A and France based Inno-Tech.

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[edit] History

Prior to becoming a joint-stock company in 1988, MER MEC was known as Meridional Meccanica [1], which began in the 1960's. Meridional Meccanica began making railway maintenance vehicles in the early 1980's and after incorporating focused all of its attention to the railway market.

In the early 1990's MER MEC, in cooperation with the main Italian research institutes, developed an opto-electronic system for the automatic inspection of railway infrastructure conditions. The 1990's also saw the prototype of the ROGER vehicle which is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control. In 1997 MER MEC produced the ROGER 1000, a self propelled vehicle for rail track and overhead line inspection.

Today, MER MEC exports its products worldwide, in particular to Australia, Brazil, China, France, Greece, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan.

[edit] Certifications

MER MEC has been awarded the following certifications: UNI EN ISO 9001[2]; UNI EN ISO 14001:2004; IRIS[3]:2006 (International Railway Industry Standards); SA8000[4]:2001

[edit] Memberships

MER MEC is an authorized research laboratory of the Italian Ministry of University and Research[5] and a member of the following organizations: UNIFE[6]; CEN - the European Committee for Standardization.

[edit] References

MER MEC S.p.A. company website
ImageMap, Inc. company website
Inno-Tech company website
Tecnogamma S.p.A. company website

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ MER MEC S.p.A. - Company Overview
  2. ^ http://extranet.rina.org/AziendeWeb/sheet.asp?CodiceCliente=464010&Regola=9001:2000&CertCode=19216&lingua=eng
  3. ^ IRIS Portal
  4. ^ http://extranet.rina.org/AziendeWeb/sheet.asp?CodiceCliente=464010&Regola=SA8000&CertCode=20213&lingua=eng
  5. ^ MIUR - Università, Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale
  6. ^ UNIFE