Global automotive giant Stellantis is optimizing its operations with help from a long-running manufacturing innovation showcase.
Stellantis Factory Booster Day
The owner of the Jeep, Fiat, and Peugeot brands recently held its ninth “Factory Booster Day” at the Mirafiori manufacturing campus in Turin, Italy. The event featured 93 new innovations identified after factory leaders sought input from Stellantis suppliers and startup companies alike.
Stellantis Innovations Already in Place
Stellantis officials said that the company is already taking advantage of concepts from earlier Factory Booster events — particularly those utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies.
Implementations traced to the 2022 showcase include a cloud-based workflow-sharing platform from Autodesk and autonomous wheels made by Norwegian startup wheel.me, which turn standard carts into autonomous mobile robots.
French startup Inbolt, meanwhile, outlined its AI-based robot 3D vision system, now used in several Stellantis powertrain plants, at the 2021 event.
Reducing Costs Tied to Energy, Transformation
Stellantis said its manufacturing team has evaluated more than 300 proposals over the past three years, and new ideas have helped increase speed and reduce errors across the company’s production operations.
The company said that since 2021, its energy consumption has been down by 23%, while quality issues and “transformation costs” have been reduced by 40% and 11%, respectively.
Stellantis Chief Manufacturing Officer Arnaud Deboeuf said in a statement that the improvements represent “proof that collaboration with our manufacturing partners works.”
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