To address the new challenges of its ecosystem, ACTIA is continuing the transformation program of its flagship industrial site: ACTIA Colomiers.

This site, already recognized for its high level of industrial excellence and strong certifications, is fully engaged in a Factory of the Future approach, aiming to modernize, digitize, automate, and secure this industrial tool.

The current initiatives reflect a strong forward‑looking ambition:

• Renewal of high‑volume production
• Streamlining of complex series
• Configuration of the production area dedicated to the space sector
• Acceleration of the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) excellence program

Synergy of technological and industrial expertise

Since its creation, ACTIA has designed and developed its products within the group’s engineering offices, located in direct proximity to its production sites. ACTIA therefore manufactures the products developed by its 1200 R&D employees.
This synergy between technological and industrial know‑how strengthens the group’s operational agility in a market driven by reduced time‑to‑market, the rapid introduction of new products, and various disruptions including geopolitical, climatic, sanitary, and semiconductor supply challenges.

Producing complex series

To meet the demands of emerging markets such as New Space, ACTIA must be able to design and produce medium‑ and small‑batch products with numerous variants.
This requires adapting production lines to smaller volumes with high complexity. Accelerating and securing the New Product Introduction (NPI) process is therefore essential.

ACTIA’s industrial vision for complex production remains unchanged: producing in flow, improving the use of available data, and connecting people, systems, and equipment. The group is therefore strongly focused on the digitalization of its production tools.

Factory of the Future: toward “plug and produce”

Make‑to‑order manufacturing has increasingly replaced buffer stock strategies, supporting shorter time‑to‑market cycles for electronic products.
In a context of unpredictable component availability, agility remains critical, requiring rapid changes on the same production line.

This agility relies on near‑instantaneous data transmission, reinforcing responsiveness and optimizing production in line with market needs and customer expectations. The challenge lies in customizing products while maintaining a single production line. ACTIA’s goal is “plug and produce”: flexible production enabled by modular and digitized units.

ACTIA’s Digital Manufacturing

The acceleration of industrial digitalization within ACTIA shapes both its organization and its methods, positioning the group at the heart of two major objectives: customer satisfaction and industrial competitiveness.
Digitalization of the production chain is therefore essential to improving operational efficiency.

ACTIA is deploying significant digital tools, including collaborative platforms.
Following the implementation of PLM and the ERP migration connected to the PLM, ACTIA is configuring an NPI tool that represents a major pillar of the MES (Manufacturing Execution System). The MES is the backbone of the connected factory and the next large‑scale digitalization program for ACTIA’s Factory of the Future.

The MES program will rely on:

• A Data Lake, enabling real‑time availability of production, product, machine, and workforce data
• Artificial Intelligence, providing analyses, KPIs, flow predictions, and potential issue detection
• Automation, including robots, AGVs, and automated 3D and X‑ray optical inspection systems

Configuring ACTIA’s plants in “mirror mode”

ACTIA’s industrial strategy emphasizes synergy between its factories across three continents. This “mirror factory” approach requires a high level of security in data exchange and collaboration between production sites.

Cybersecurity: a major challenge

Producing connected electronic systems in connected factories presents an ongoing cybersecurity challenge.
ACTIA designs and manufactures electronic products and embedded systems for multiple sectors: automotive, aeronautics, space, energy, and more.

The rapid evolution of these products involves:

• increased software complexity
• integration of enhanced security functions
• growing volumes of processed data

In cybersecurity, ACTIA’s Factory of the Future strategy extends the group’s global asset protection approach, ensuring continuous improvement in the security of its ISO27001‑certified plant.

Improving the carbon footprint of the Colomiers plant

The eco‑responsible dimension aims to enhance the site’s energy and environmental performance by reducing its carbon footprint and energy consumption.

80% of the plant’s energy mix is distributed as follows:

• 60% from manufacturing processes
• 20% from heating and cooling

These two areas are the main focus for optimizing the plant’s energy performance.

Social performance objectives in ACTIA’s Factory of the Future

The Factory of the Future is often associated with cooperation between humans, robots, and intelligent machines. These tools support employees by relieving them of strenuous and repetitive tasks and allowing them to focus on higher‑value activities.

ACTIA goes beyond this technological perspective: people are truly a key factor in its Factory of the Future.

The plan includes measures to develop:

• employee skills
• responsibility
• engagement and versatility

This is one of the core goals of the WCM (World Class Manufacturing) program deployed across ACTIA’s industrial sites. WCM structures and guides continuous improvement plans directly with teams on the shop floor.

Within WCM, the digitalization axis drives:

• reduction of physical workloads → toward the “augmented operator”
• improved data management
• training
• prediction of future events through modeling

Faithful to its commitments and human values, ACTIA integrates this social dimension into its modernization plan to enhance skills while also preserving and developing local employment.

A sustained strategic investment approach

Despite challenges linked to the electronic components market and the organizational demands they impose, ACTIA remains committed to pursuing its strategic investments in production capabilities.
This long‑term strategy enables the group to meet the evolving requirements of an increasingly technological, competitive, and diversified industrial landscape.