Peugeot Lions Portrait l Julien Vauthier l Maintenance Manager
What keeps a factory producing 60 vehicles an hour running without missing a beat? For Julien Vauthier, Maintenance Manager at #Peugeot’s #Sochaux plant, the answer lives somewhere between a thermal camera and an 8mm open-ended wrench.
In this #LionsPortrait episode, Julien takes us behind the scenes of the Sochaux assembly line: 105 interconnected automated systems, robots, handling machines and AGVs and the team responsible for keeping every one of them running.
Maintenance at Sochaux works on three levels. Reactive maintenance is the hammer-and-wrench call when something fails. Preventive maintenance is the scheduled work drawn from years of accumulated experience: tighten this screw every two months, replace that sensor before it gives out. And predictive maintenance goes further still, using cameras, vibration sensors and networked computers to catch the faults that experience alone would miss – what Julien describes as an MRI for the brain of an automated system.
Behind it all is a team trained for flexibility across new and complex technology – autonomous enough that, as Julien puts it, his phone rings considerably less at night than it used to.
As for the good luck charms he never enters the factory floor without: a padlock for working safely inside automated areas, and that wrench. Because sometimes the most advanced troubleshooting method is YSYR: You Stop, You Restart.
At Sochaux, quality is not assumed. It is maintained.
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