Combining industry expertise and local presence

We work with SPIE in a number of industrial areas, including electrical installations and body-in-white and vehicle fitting lines. For example, we recently called on SPIE to assist on the new Peugeot 208 line in Trnava, Slovakia, and on the new DS 3 CROSSBACK line at our Poissy facility in France. SPIE will also be setting up the electric vehicle charging stations at the Opel development centre in Rüsselsheim, Germany.

The challenges we’re taking up with SPIE are many and varied, against a backdrop of considerable economic pressure. To start with, new product launches are driving many of our production facilities to full capacity. So schedules are tight, with no room for delays. Another challenge is the constant need for performance improvements, even though Groupe PSA has already managed to halve its capital expenditure in the past ten years, while actually making more cars. Refurbishing and adapting existing plant, for example, enables us to reduce  both costs and environmental impact. We also have to ensure rapid response  capabilities at our production facilities, and this calls for attentive, local-reach services. This is one of SPIE’s great strengths, with their excellent geographical coverage of units operating in the industrial specialities of interest to us. On top of that, SPIE recently brought in a new organisational framework, improving centralisation of services to Groupe PSA and feedback on our projects.