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The official creation of the association "Alliance Industry of the Future" was announced on Monday, July 20, in Bercy, in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital.
On this occasion, Philippe Darmayan, a member of the executive committee of the UIMM, was elected operational president of the association at the first general meeting following the signing of the statutes. Pascal Daloz and Frédéric Sanchez become honorary presidents of this alliance with a role of orientation, impulse and representation.
The industry alliance of the future brings together professional organizations of industry and digital as well as academic and technological partners around a common ambition: to make France a leader in global industrial renewal and propel the entire national economic fabric at the heart of new industrial systems.
It will ensure the deployment of the industry of the future project launched on 14 April 2015 by the President of the Republic and specified by the Minister on 18 May. "The Alliance's role is to organize and coordinate at the national level initiatives, projects and work for the modernization and transformation of the industry in France. Its action will be implemented in collaboration with the regions. It will be relayed in the territories by specific platforms that will draw on the networks of Alliance members, communities and competitiveness clusters to support industrial SMEs as close as possibleto the ground," said Philippe Darmayan.
Various working groups, bringing together all the Alliance's stakeholders, have already been set up to implement this ambitious project through concrete initiatives.
The Alliance's priority actions are to:
- to promote the French vision of the industry of the future and accelerate transformations,
- notably through showcase projects with a target of 15 pilot lines launched before 2016;
- support companies, by making available a repository, the proposal of personalized diagnostics up to the financing of modernization and in-depth support actions: 160 million euros of budget have already been allocated to this mission. 2,000 SMEs and ETIs will eventually be guided on this path. To date, 18 regions have been engaged, 300 expert stakeholders have been identified and referenced. The process is now being started with 400 companies;
- reference the French technological offer carrying industrial transformation, and develop the technological offer of the future, mobilizing all the players in innovation;
- anticipating professional developments to put man at the heart of the success of the industry of the future, and to lead forward-looking actions on human-machine co-evolution, company transformations and the development of new products and markets;
- enable the formation of new value chains, particularly through standardisation actions, particularly internationally;
- Valuing French technology and know-how internationally;
- attract foreign investors to The French territory through a differentiated industrial offer.
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