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Do you remember the 34 planes of “industrial reconquest” launched by Arnaud Montebourg September 2013? You can forget. After being screened, Emmanuel Macron, the successor of Mr. Montebourg at Bercy, chose to fundamentally review the whole of this flagship program. The result of this overhaul was unveiled by the Minister of Economy, Monday, May 18 in Nantes.
No more 34 separate shots, like the autopilot vehicle or green chemistry. Place a “matrix” based on five “pillars” and nine “Industrial Solutions” . Words selected confirm: whether Mr. Montebourg is a pure political animal, his successor has more to large technocratic tradition. But the differences between the two versions of the program designed to give a boost to the blue-white-red industry go beyond vocabulary.
Of the 34 initial projects, three were dismissed those on civil UAVs, e-education and renewable energy. They were considered redundant with other government programs, where they will normally be melted.
The other 31 plans have not disappeared. “We are no deleted” provides Bercy. Mr. Macron has indeed a rather positive assessment of the first year of its predecessor program. More than 330 concrete projects were launched. They represent term investments of 3.7 billion euros, including 1.5 billion from state subsidies. Airbus, for example, chose to implement its future Pau factory electric aircraft.
But, judging the old plans too numerous to be readable, the new minister preferred group them under ten new topics. Nine of them – “Industrial Solutions” in the official lexicon – correspond to large markets. All plans relating to transport have been gathered under the label “Transport of tomorrow”: the electric aircraft, new airships, ecological ship … Groupings of the same type have been performed around the health, “sustainable city “etc.
Each time, it is, according Bercy, ” out of the silo logic, “ for all companies in the same field can talk. Incidentally, the government intends to bring in projects of foreign investors.
The tenth section, “Future Industry” is the most important. Mr. Macron wanted by the muscles 34 th and the background of Mr. Montebourg, most of all cross, that intended to accelerate the modernization of plants. “This is the matrix of our industrial strategy,” says Bercy.
Worried aging of production facilities, and the government aims to help 2,000 PMI to go digital and to robotise, making them receive personalized diagnostics by the end of 2016. At least 15 showcases projects should be launched at the same time as the robot cell of the plant visited by Mr. Daher Monday to Macron Nantes. Added to this are the actions to develop innovation (eg in the field of 3D printers), train employees to digital, and strengthen international cooperation on standards.
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And to educate the greatest possible benefits to SMEs of the “Factory 4.0,” Mr. Macron has chosen to rely on trade unions employers. The program will no longer be driven by large industrial chosen by Mr. Montebourg, but by a committee comprising government, labor unions and six employers’ organizations gathered in a new association law 1901 with two research centers and two schools . The risk that the whole is very heavy to maneuver …
“It’s true, we pass a small club very reactive to a more complex device that can become mired, Siegfried admits Laurent, the Group of electrical equipment industries (Gimelec), one of the linchpins of the program. But that’s the price to pay for the project changes dimension. “ A first assessment can be made end of 2016.
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