Cuneo
At the entrance to the Michelin factory in Cuneo, northern Italy, bizarre rectangular driverless vehicles the size of giant shipping containers move slowly like ghosts around the site.
Day and night, they transport the tires produced in three-shift shifts to their storage location within the largest car tire factory in Western Europe.
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From the outside, however, nothing suggests that it harbors innovations.
“It's a revolution, to open the doors of our factories
, is still surprised Jean-Christophe Guérin, the director of industry of the Michelin group, thirty-seven years of seniority on the counter.
We have never done that.”
The world's number one tire company has always kept its recipes, figures and robots secret so as not to give its competitors ideas.
The Italian factory, which employs 2,200 people and will celebrate its 60th anniversary next year, has become a pilot site in the use…
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