Design, experience, and transform tomorrow's critical systems with an edge in creativity and innovation.
Design, Experiment, and Transform Tomorrow's Critical Systems
At Aktan, we support players in the aerospace, space, and defense sectors in designing and implementing innovations that sustainably transform their organizations, products, and services.
Our conviction: in a sector where precision, safety, and performance are vital, innovation can only succeed by combining technological mastery, human cooperation, and systemic vision.
Our missions: from strategy to execution
Explore operational uses and constraints
Observe real work, understand business contexts, security issues, compliance, and performance.
Design integrated and operational solutions
Combine service design, technological innovation, and complexity management to develop viable, safe, and team-adopted solutions.
Support implementation and scaling
Co-create organizational models, equip stakeholders, ensure pilot reliability, and transfer skills for sustainable adoption.
Our approach enables us to link engineering, design, and organizational transformation, ensuring continuity between innovation and execution.
Our Key Expertise
Design of complex systems and organizational transformation
Rethink decision and cooperation chains in multi-actor environments (manufacturers, equipment suppliers, agencies, public partners).
Examples: CNES, Safran, AirFrance
Product and service innovation in aerospace
Integrate user-centered design in the creation of products, cockpits, interfaces, and associated services to enhance performance and safety.
Digital and industrial transformation
Support the transition to digital, data, and artificial intelligence while preserving the robustness of existing systems.
Inter-organization collaboration and innovation ecosystems
Facilitate collaborative approaches between industrial, institutional, and academic stakeholders to accelerate responsible research and innovation.
Why Aktan?
A recognized expertise in critical environments
Our teams have been involved for over 15 years in highly technological and sensitive environments, where each project involves major human, industrial, and strategic challenges.
A systemic and interdisciplinary approach
We leverage strategic design, organizational modeling, and systemic thinking to connect technological innovations to actual uses, security constraints, and value chains.
Hybrid teams, close to the field
Designers, engineers, sociologists, transformation facilitators: our varied profiles share the same commitment, to design concrete, tested, documented, and adopted solutions.
Our References
Way4Space, CNES, Safran, Safran Aircraft Engines, Groupe ADP, Dassault Aviation
Our Typical Deliverables
Usage studies and operational context analyses
Design and prototyping of services, products, or interfaces
Co-construction and collective intelligence approaches
Transformation plans and innovation strategies
Support for adoption and skills transfer
Comprehensive Expertise, from Concept to Deployment
We support organizations from vision definition to concrete implementation:
from strategy to design,
from prototype to proof of effectiveness,
from pilot to industrial deployment.
Result: an innovation that is efficient, secure, and human-centered, serving the industrial and strategic challenges of tomorrow.
Our Associated Projects
Discover some of our accomplishments related to your industry.
Contact us if you'd like to learn more.
Remote engine maintenance service design
Design and testing of a remote engine endoscopy service aimed at airlines. Field explorations and testing with several airlines have enabled us to model the service and reduce the risk for delivery to maintenance technicians.
Service Design for Predictive Maintenance
For an aerospace company, several projects were undertaken to explore performance opportunities in maintenance, supported by engine data analysis and the use of predictive algorithms.
Prospective Study on the Sustainability of the Space Sector
For a major player in research within the French and European space sector, Aktan conducted a prospective study on the impacts of environmental and climate crises on the evolution of the European space sector.
Unleashing breakthrough projects for the new space sector
Facilitation of a forward-thinking center on new space, aimed at exploring major themes and highlighting potential projects to accelerate. Design of prospective scenarios and prototypes around three axes: medicine in space, mega space infrastructures, and solar energy from space.
New Space Ecosystem
Engineering a structure aimed at facilitating collaborative breakthrough innovation among major aerospace players, startups, and research laboratories.
