About

Groupe Renault has manufactured cars since 1898. Today, it is an international multi-brand group, selling close to 3.8 million vehicles in 134 countries in 2019, with 40 manufacturing sites, 12,700 points of sale and employing more than 180,000 people. To address the major technological challenges of the future while continuing to pursue its profitable growth strategy, Groupe Renault is focusing on international expansion. To this end, it is drawing on the synergies of its five brands (Renault, Dacia, Renault Samsung Motors, Alpine and LADA), electric vehicles, and its unique alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors.

Awards

Maubeuge, FR - Lighthouse award in Productivity

Sep 2020

A half-century-old light commercial vehicle plant carrying a complex, high-mix model portfolio (vans for three OEM brands) on an ageing 20-hectare site. The plant set out to use digital tools to eliminate quality defects from manual operations, enable data-driven decisions, achieve end-to-end part traceability, raise body-shop flexibility for high vehicle diversity, and cut the energy bill of 50-year-old buildings.

Curitiba, BR - Lighthouse award in Supply-Chain and Resilience

Jan 2020

In 2017 the engine factory ranked last on the group's internal performance index covering quality, cost, time and performance. A combined technological, cultural and organisational transformation, built on five Industry 4.0 axes — process, connected workforce, real-time data-driven plant and supply chain, flexible supply chain and factory, and full track-and-trace — lifted the site from 16th to 6th by 2019, with a 31% reduction in value of transformation per unit and an 18% gain in engines per worker.

Cléon, FR - Lighthouse award in Productivity

Jul 2019

The site is a long-established powertrain plant (engines, gearboxes and casting parts) running 60-year-old buildings across roughly 40 hectares. Its transformation pushed digital tools onto the shop floor to lift productivity, retrain a large workforce on new technologies and cut the energy bill of an ageing facility.