Equans France supports Orano NPS in the 4.0 maintenance of the TN Eagle Factory

Orano NPS, world leader in nuclear packaging, has reached a historic milestone with its new ultra-modern TN Eagle Factory.

Inaugurated in Cherbourg, this new-generation plant is a technological showcase for Industry 4.0, combining robotization and digitalization to an unprecedented degree. To guarantee the performance of this strategic tool, Orano has renewed its confidence in Ineo Nucléaire, an Equans France entity, to ensure the site's multi-technical and predictive maintenance through a 5-year contract formalized at the WNE 2025 trade show.

The aim of this partnership is to secure production capacity over the long term as the plant enters its decisive ramp-up phase.

TN Eagle Factory: a maintenance challenge for state-of-the-art nuclear production

The transition to Industry 4.0 at the TN Eagle Factory involves crucial availability and reliability issues for the French nuclear industry.

Accelerate production cycles: Reduce nuclear packaging manufacturing time by a factor of three.

Guaranteeing maximum availability: securing a strategic production tool.

Mastering a complex ecosystem: Maintaining a highly robotized infrastructure where digital and human elements must collaborate perfectly.

Maintaining high safety standards: making automated insertion, painting and welding processes more reliable to reinforce overall safety.

A complete technical solution: predictive maintenance, robotics and 4.0 expertise

In response to the complexity of this plant, Ineo Nucléaire is deploying an "augmented maintenance" approach.

  • Digital expertise and optimization: Thanks to the contribution of the Group's digital expertise via Equans Digital, software, robotics and supervision systems are optimized to ensure maximum continuity of operation. This approach combines robustness and productivity gains.
  • Global multi-technical maintenance: Ineo Nucléaire provides predictive maintenance for 16 of the site's critical industrial processes.
  • New-generation human expertise: Creation of the "TN Eagle technician" profile, capable of intervening across the entire value chain by following the E.A.G.L.E approach (Expertise, Continuous Improvement, Guaranteed Availability, Leadership, Commitment & Excellence).
  • Local responsiveness: Equans France intervention teams are on site in less than 30 minutes when needed.

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Expertise in robotics, automation and supervision: key figures for the TN Eagle project

Industrial performance:

  • Production cycle divided by 3 (from 36 to 12 months).
  • 16 critical processes under multi-technical maintenance.

Infrastructures and technologies :

  • 8 areas of expertise: electricity, automation, control, robotics, video, mechanics, hydraulics and supervision.

Commitment and responsiveness:

  • Contract duration: 5 years.
  • Full operational capability of maintenance teams expected by the end of 2025.
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