MEGGITT SA

Their core work

Meggitt SA, operating under the Vibro-Meter brand (vibro-meter.com), is a Swiss aerospace sensing and monitoring company that develops onboard sensor systems and health monitoring solutions for aircraft and aviation maintenance programmes. Their H2020 work centres on structural health monitoring, prognostics, and maintenance optimisation — contributing the kind of embedded sensing hardware and data systems that allow airlines and MRO operators to predict component failures before they occur. They participated in two Clean Sky 2 projects, Europe's flagship aerospace R&D programme, covering both end-to-end airline maintenance architecture and specialised landing gear condition monitoring. As part of the wider Meggitt group, they bring production-grade aerospace sensor technology rather than early-stage research capability.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects started within a year of each other (2015–2016), so there is no meaningful keyword shift to analyse — all documented keywords belong to the early participation window, and the second-half period contains no recorded keywords. Across both projects, the thematic focus is consistent: embedded sensing, health monitoring, prognostics, and maintenance optimisation for aviation. The absence of later H2020 activity suggests that Meggitt SA's EU-funded R&D is selective and targeted rather than sustained across multiple funding cycles.

Both projects sit squarely within Clean Sky 2 aerospace, indicating that Meggitt SA's EU research engagement is narrowly focused on aviation sensing — future collaborations are most plausible in MRO digitalisation, PHM (Prognostics and Health Management), and next-generation aircraft systems monitoring.

How they like to work

Meggitt SA participates exclusively as a consortium partner and has never acted as project coordinator in H2020 — a pattern typical of industrial companies that contribute proven technology to research programmes rather than driving the research agenda. With 15 unique partners across 5 countries in just 2 projects, their consortium footprint is relatively broad, reflecting the large multi-partner structures characteristic of Clean Sky 2 Joint Technology Initiatives. This indicates they are comfortable operating within complex industrial consortia and delivering a well-defined technical module alongside system integrators and OEMs.

Meggitt SA has collaborated with 15 unique partners across 5 countries, entirely within the Clean Sky 2 ecosystem. Their network is aviation-industry concentrated rather than geographically broad, consistent with the sectoral focus of the JTI programme.

What sets them apart

Meggitt SA brings production-ready aerospace sensor hardware and health-monitoring systems to EU research consortia — a combination of industrial scale and sensing specialisation that is relatively rare within the Swiss aerospace supply chain. Their simultaneous involvement in both end-to-end maintenance architecture (AIRMES) and component-level landing gear sensing (ALGeSMo) demonstrates breadth across the MRO technology stack, from system-level integration to specific subsystem hardware. For consortium builders, they represent a credible industrial partner with deployable products rather than prototype-stage research output.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AIRMES
  A Clean Sky 2 RIA project targeting full end-to-end airline maintenance service architecture — one of the more ambitious MRO digitalisation efforts in H2020 — where Meggitt contributed systems health monitoring and prognostics capability across real operational environments.
• ALGeSMo
  A dedicated Clean Sky 2 Innovative Action focused entirely on advanced landing gear sensing and monitoring, reflecting Meggitt SA's specific hardware competence in a safety-critical aircraft subsystem.