What Tracks for Sustainable Production Systems in Europe

Abstract The future of production systems is a big concern in Europe and particularly in France where two national initiatives were started in 2012: a specific ministry of productive recovery and a specific scientific reflexion on research on production systems. A one-year work gave the main ideas for what is significantly moving in production systems to make them sustainable for a long time in a European country. It highlighted three main evolutions that would create the industry of the future quite different to the today manufacturing industry: at first, the production systems would be pulled by the development of the technologies with high added value that emerge from today; Then it was considered that the link of the systems of production and the territories would be a heavy trend of future and thus put forward the evolutions of the organization. Finally, it could be the revival of the social contract that would pull the evolution of the systems of production. The paper relates the first conclusions of this national work.