Flexible chains

Flexible chains

The Renault plant in Cléon employs 4,600 people. They manufacture more than half of the engines and gearboxes produced by the auto giant. This Renault site is investing CHF 1.5 billion over five years to set up new "flexible lines" chains. These chains produce all types of engines or gearboxes to react day by day to the vagaries of the market. In the factory, the level of employment is stabilized but the posts are in full change, the workers after training become technicians in their own right. The prototype laboratory should also be transferred to the Cléon site, it would bring 135 additional jobs. Images of workers on assembly lines and automated tools in action are commented on by the journalist. Jacques PROST, director of Cléon’s Renault plant and Ameur YAHIA, a manufacturing technician, are interviewed about this modernization.

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File : Renault: factories and cars

Publication date : 4 February 2000