With "Sochaux 2022", a project that has mobilised a dedicated multi-skilled team on the Sochaux site for the last 36 months, the PSA Group shows its ambition to turn the Sochaux site into a benchmark plant.
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This strategic project aims to simplify flows, inherited from over 100 years of industrial history, that do not allow Sochaux to reach its full potential compared to the other PSA Group industrial sites.
Restoring coherence to building locations will reduce loading and unloading: Sochaux currently is a complex production site, extending over 200 hectares, including 24 kilometres of conveyor belts, and mobilising dozens of trucks to move vehicles sub-assemblies in production.
At the end of this transformation project, Sochaux will be able to meet changing customer expectations thanks to a highly-flexible multi-silhouette line able to produce six different silhouettes, with a production capacity of 400,000 vehicles per year, exceeding the average of the last 10 years.
This new large transfer press line is the first acquired in France in the last two decades. This new line will be high speed and cutting edge technology, able to build multiple parts and to produce both steel and aluminium parts.
Sochaux's modernisation will also include the setting-up of a versatile, extremely flexible body-assembly workshop, capable of processing the whole diversity of the site's production, and the installation of an assembly workshop, meeting the highest world standards, closer to the other production buildings.
This assembly workshop will be built to the highest standards.
Designed according to the principles of the plant of the future, Sochaux will take advantage of the latest developments in terms of digital tools, full kitting logistics, and mobile operator platforms for better ergonomics and optimum levels of quality.
The workshops, designed for the 21st century, will be better organized, to meet the highest standards in ergonomics for the men and women that work there. ■