France is behind in industrial robotics

According to Vincent Schramm, the Director of the French association for manufacturing technologies (SYMOP) in an article in Figaro, France has fallen behind its neighbours in terms of industrial robotics. In France, the biggest companies are lowering the low purchase prices which is encouraging delocalisation. The opposite is happening in Germany for example, where the biggest companies are giving guarantees to medium or long-term subcontractors. Didier Bouvet, the director at Bucci Industries (manufacturing industrial robots), claims that "in France, a supplier can lose his main customer overnight without warning." Such a restraint can clearly make us wonder how companies can have an appetite to invest in industrial robotics in France. A study by DGCIS (the General Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services) and Symop underlines France's delay in the robotics industry. Germany is 6 times more advanced in robotization than France, and Italy 3 times.