Plastic Omnium - 2018 Registration Document

L'innovation dans l'ADN du Groupe INTEGRATED REPORT Innovation in the group’s DNA Innovation, a shared historical state of mind The diesel crisis, environmental regulations, connectivity, autonomous vehicle: the automotive world is reinventing itself. For more than 70 years, the «PO Way» has brought together the 32,000 employees of Plastic Omnium, from its President to the operatives, from Europe to China, enabling the Group to innovate and adapt to the needs of the world’s largest manufacturers. As early as 1946, its founder Pierre Burelle had imagined the 47 parts of an automobile that could be made of plastic... Today, the diversity and complexity of the challenges are encouraging Plastic Omnium to mobilize, more than ever, all the ideas and initiatives internally and to continuously expand the expertise of its teams. «All innovators» is more than a slogan - it is a shared reality. The first « INNOVATION AWARDS » Many innovative projects are emerging within the Group. Plastic Omnium has set up a competition that in 2019 will reward the best innovations in three categories: products, operational excellence and open innovation for projects developed in partnership. All employees in all positions and all countries were encouraged to compete, alone or in teams. 168 projects have been submitted. The goal is to create a technological innovations accelerator. TO DEVELOP new businesses Data analysis, software and diagnostic engineering, digital manufacture, plastronics and electrochemistry call for new skills. Plastic Omnium is developing them internally and is recruiting s engineers trained in the latest technologies to develop new onboard smart systems or the fuel cell. Open team work with laboratories, universities and technology partners is accelerating discovery. At the confluence of mechanics, electronics and connected systems, mechatronics makes it possible to design industrial production systems, such as command and control to measure pressure. At the intersection of chemistry and electricity, electrochemistry studies the phenomena associated with the ex-change of electrical energy, which gives it a broad spectrum of applications, from biology to the behavior of materials and energy storage. Industry 4.0 is the combination of mature technologies: data, advanced robotics, augmented reality, the internet of industrial things, as well as vertical (suppliers, customers) and horizontal (partners) integration, through to the cloud and data management. Some ten concepts have been tested in all the Group’s factories to validate technologies and associated partners. Two pilot plants are in the vanguard. First is the Greer plant built in South Carolina in 2018 (United States) for «Intelligent Exterior Systems». The Group invested €150 million in this building to enable it to deploy the 4.0 factory in its entirety. Second is the Compiègne plant (France), for «Clean Energy Systems», which is changing its processes and tools to deploy 4.0 in an existing factory. For Plastic Omnium, Industry 4.0 heralds the implementation of predictive production. The other imperative is managing behavioral change for everyone, from the operative to the plant manager. The launch of the Greer 4.0 project is a challenge, watched from all four corners of the Group before a global deployment of the model in 3 to 4 years. THE NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION at Plastic Omnium Pour plus d’informations : http://innovationawards.plasticomnium.com byPlasticOmnium Premiers Soyez récompensés pour vos projets les plus novateurs : ExcellenceOpérationnelle Produits Open Innovation Soumissiondesprojets :avant le 31décembre Conceptionet réalisation :www.carrecommunication.com© illustration snyGGG.de www.plasticomnium.com PLASTIC OMNIUM 2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 12