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Jérôme Frantz, President of the Federation of Mechanical Industries (FIM) and Alain Rousset, President of the Association of The Regions of France (ARF) signed a cooperation agreement on 31 March to consolidate the Factory of the Future project and deploy it in the region. "We are pleased to sign this agreement with the ARF, which has a dual objective: to increase the visibility of the industrial supply of mechanics, to cross all industrial sectors and to do this, to ensure support to the Regions for the implementation around the Future Factory project," explains Jérôme Frantz. This Future Factory project, of which FIM is one of the national pilots, is carried out in close collaboration with privileged partners such as Cetim and Symop. "For the entire SME fabric, the Factory of the Future plan is a formidable vehicle for competitiveness, improved working conditions and energy transition. But to do this we have to act as closely as possible to the companies and the Region-SME couple is essential,says Alain Rousset. We are very pleased with this enhanced cooperation with FIM and its partners, to accelerate and consolidate the deployment of the regional plant programmes of the future that we are conducting. »
In order to consolidate the project, the FIM is developing a repository entitled "Factory of the Future 2020" available in June 2015. A true operational support tool for business leaders and regions, this document lays the groundwork for the concept for mechanical industries and outlines major issues in market developments, productivity and competitiveness, technologies, organisation, environment, working conditions, skills and societal aspects. A first medium that will be supplemented by thematic sheets, descriptive of the different components of the Factory of the Future. Resolutely practical, these sheets will be geared towards enterprise implementation (including SMEs or SMEs). As part of this cooperation, FIM and ARF have defined several areas of work, including the sharing and promotion of the FIM repository in the region. Stakeholders are also in charge of identifying the successes of exemplary mechanical companies, in order to encourage SMEs to engage in the modernisation of their production tool on the one hand, and to feed national work on the production tools of the future on the other. "This action is essential,"says Jean-Camille Uring, president of Symop, "to both catch up with our companies in terms of investments and also to include them in the industrial performance of tomorrow necessary to address all markets." A reflection is carried out on the support given to collective projects and on the possibility of a labeling or creation of a brand "Factory of the Future". A valuation offered to innovative companies, growing profitablely and developing in export. In order to promote international development, Regional Councils and Mechanical Committees are implementing a monitoring system that allows mechanical companies to respond to international competition. In addition, they offer companies an evaluation of their product development projects.
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