FOCUS pour accompagner les industriels dans l’intégration des automatismes liés à l’industrie du futur. L’objectif est de mettre au point des solutions robotisées notamment collaboratives pour UN « LAB ROBOTIQUE », INCUBATEUR D’INNOVATIONS gagner en productivité et flexibilité sur des opérations telles que la palettisation (avec la solution mobile Palet’Ease), la découpe des emballages (Depack’Ease), l’encaissage, l’assemblage ou la gestion de stockage automatique (Cobot’Ease). Le Lab Robotique est ainsi tout à la fois : un lieu de création et d’interaction avec les industriels, les start-ups, les écoles et les centres de recherche, un lieu de production où sont réalisés essais et mises en service et, enfin, un lieu de recherche appliquée pour l’élaboration de solutions innovantes en co-développement avec les industriels. “ROBOTS LAB”, AN INNOVATION THINK TANK Last July, Engie Solutions opened the doors to their “Robots Lab” and innovation think tank in Montargis (Loiret), in the presence of François Bonneau, Chairman of the Centre-Val-de- Loire Region and of Laurence Poirier-Dietz, Engie Solutions BU Industries Deputy General Manager. Launched in 2018, this project worth €1.6 million, an investment of Engie Solutions , contributes to the potential development of Industry 4.0 in Crédit photo : Samuel Dejours Centre-Val-de-Loire for the cosmetics, pharmacy, logistics or En juillet dernier, Engie Solutions a ouvert les portes de son evenfor the agri-food sectors. The Robots Lab hosts a 300m2 « Lab Robotique » et incubateur d’innovations à Montargis showroom with demo equipment, as well as a training and (Loiret), en présence de François Bonneau, président de la Région R&D area regrouping 25 engineers to support companies in the Centre- Val de Loire et de Laurence Poirier-Dietz, directrice integration of automatic solutions for the industry of the future. The goal is to develop (especially collaborative) robotic solutions générale adjointe d’Engie Solutions BU industries Lancé depuis in order to enhance the output and flexibility of operations such 2018, le projet représente un investissement de 1,6 million as palletization (with the Palet’Ease mobile solution), packaging d’euros pour Engie Solutions, qui contribue aussi à renforcer le cutting (Depack’Ease), case packing, assembly or automated potentiel de développement de l’industrie 4.0 en Centre-Val-de- stock management (Cobot’Ease). The Robots Lab also is a place Loire pour les secteurs de la cosmétique, de la pharmacie, de la of creativity and interaction with the companies in the sector, logistique ou encore de l’agroalimentaire. Le Lab Robotique est start-ups, schools and the research center, a place of production where tests and commissioning operations are performed and, dotéd’un showroom de 300 m avec démonstrateurs, mais aussi2 finally, a place of applied research for the development of innova- d’un espace de formation et de R&D regroupant 25 ingénieurs tive solutions in collaboration with the industry to serve 80 countries throughout the as a think tank for concrete and practi- the implementation of a data envi- world. cal ideas, with whom REDLab worked ronment meant to facilitate real-time directly, explains Yassir Karroute, who decision-making in terms of produc- Big data, IA and blockchain - was involved in the initiative since the tion. The project had specifically led the winning trio beginning. Aptar Pharma presented to the implementation of a data pool their vision of how to transform a able to store a massive amount of data. In its turn, Aptar Pharma, which specia- factory within five years, the budget “Management rituals have evolved from lizes in drug delivery, has developed an and the expected results under the screens and dashboards placed directly ambitious program to advance quickly, form of monthly deliverables”. The in the operation area”, he says. The but in small steps, towards a factory of transformation plan started with the results of this initiative were quickly the future in Val-de-Reuil, Normandy. digitalization of the production batch visible. With the development of data “The first decision was to set up an files using mobile applications, with science and of AI, Aptar Pharma has internal group of about twenty people a zero-paper objective, followed by hosted data scientists able to master September - 2020 / The Pharmaceutical Post 03 41 SSECORP