Diving in the ultra modern factory of PSA in China

What is the compacit of the place. It is almost a human-sized plant. With its 10 000 m2, the new plant of Capsa, the joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citro n and ChangAn, walks and Saturday, September 28, in the suburbs of Shenzhen, in southern China, brings the characteristics of high-tech automotive sites: Compact, point and a versatile line that can assemble vehicles diff annuities v, capable of agr platforms the and multiplying the tricks to reduce the consumption of water and energy.

"Prior to this project, in 2010, I was including charg in PSA to collect the best practices of the group, in order to apply a day in a new site... The Bible that we have build and helps me every day! ", said Christophe Pineau, Director of engineering of ing's site". In fact, this gives a compact ultra factory, which allows to go no matter what workshop, with the final assembly line, passing through the paint shop, in a few minutes.

Sochaux, Mulhouse or Aulnay, to track the overall progress of a vehicle, is better to take a car or a "v", both workshops are large and distant from one another. In Shenzhen, Marcos, is installed in an office in the heart of the complex, it was five - foot - minutes on any point or have a problem myself. "This allows us to save a lot time to solve certain is difficult", r add Mr. Pineau. Best to ensure a quick return of defects d s observation, snowshoeing and final assembly line endings are very matching is. As assembly-line, was built the "L" to integrate the logistics of the int pi in the heart of the device and shorten the journey from drivers who bring the pi to these mountain better.

'VISUAL MANAGEMENT'

"Again we have learned it in Europe, it is the Visual management of the factory, resumed Mr. Pineau."The workshop is very pure. The walls or floor are either white or grey. "All mobile components l maximum 1.5 m high are to avoid any accident to tre and step ob rer personal vision", as the production process is "lean" (which covers I'm improving the performance of the company seeking the ales of identification of operating conditions). "Is very showy, yellow on gray background, r e serv mobile and potentially dangerous, as the parties s article arms carrying the bodies of vehicles v", pr clarifies it.

D volume to only high-end, PSA has no point its lines of wood on the floor, as it had done on one of their lines of production Rennes, or as a premium German manufacturers. "Wood certainly helps to cushion the shocks for the operation of the operators, but d now, there are other ways of op rer." Current safety footwear is very comfortable... ', slips a framework to judge d now a small wooden "gadget". "

M, unlike some plants of high range, automation of branding, this tape or l components of the Fund are s Assembly, is relatively reasonable, and rest. If done by robots, Shenzhen, Hyundai or Audi, more than 90% of the blend is around 40%. "Us pr f rons limiting to a minimum", says Nicolas Guibert, Director of production of Capsa. However, the group does not have h sit equip their racquets of the latest technologies of res workshop of the group, such as welding or welding laser (solder type).

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To ensure the quality of your mod them, the factory of Shenzhen 55 points of control account the production line, or, on average, 15 more than the PSA sites in Europe. Both objective never retouch v vehicles in order to save time and space.

Finally, to reduce and occupation and square and the e of energy used, an installation of the Group her last ration n g of the paint shop for instant r e serv Sochaux, which uses less ovens. M I, led lighting helped to reduce the power consumption of this position by 50% for the enti factory, while air conditioning in room, China two expos and heat waves, is e assur by a syst me hydraulic point of two water cooling towers.

Of a theoretical minimum 200,000 v th vehicle, factory capacity has Mauritius from March - launch of the industrial operations of date op - 1 thousand people. "But it is difficult to keep our staff better form s, provides a framework for easy fran". There is a large volume of business in China, because the bulk of the population working in Shenzhen come from other countries. When they have sufficient powers, they seek the means to return to their province of origin, to be closer to their families and pay better." Term, up to 6,000 employees s are expected at the site.

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