Fives at L’Usine Extraordinaire (The Extraordinary Factory), a unique experience to “change preconceived ideas about industry”
The program included an extraordinary, immersive, behind the scenes trip through a “living factory” which brought together four different areas - “Inventing”, “Manufacturing”, “Connecting” and “Sharing” - conferences, encounters, events and expert testimonials. Over 40,000 visitors, including 10,000 school children from 55 French departments took part in this amazing industrial adventure. “The greatest reward was the look of wonder in the children’s and teenagers’ eyes when they discovered the wonderful world of factories these past few days. I think we may have sparked quite a few vocations,” said Bruno Grandjean, President of the Usine Extraordinaire Foundation.
Setting out to share a positive message about factories, Fives presented an automated laser welding line in the “Manufacturing” area. The line was designed and developed for the carmaker Renault at the Fives Machining factory in Saint-Laurent-Les-Tours, in the Lot department. This factory is a made in France center for industrial excellence specializing in high-powered laser applications to design and produce industrial equipment in the domain of laser welding or 3D metal printing.
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