Mclaren Racing Partners With Sanofi
Formula 1 team McLaren Racing has announced that it is partnering with global healthcare, medicine, and science company Sanofi.
The partnership will see the Surrey-based team collaborate with Sanofi’s Industrial Affairs team towards achieving excellence in manufacturing operations, enabling Sanofi to meet patients’ needs around the world through more effective use of its global network and support the supply of its broad portfolio.
With a unique data-driven approach, McLaren Racing will bring its digital and analytical expertise and skills to further elevate Sanofi’s performance by helping to better anticipate and resolve issues. Modelling simulation of production line changeovers and operations will be key areas of McLaren’s Formula 1 experience, as exemplified using advanced data analytics and expertise used to optimize the famed pit stops of F1 races.
Sanofi Chief Executive Officer, Paul Hudson, said, “We are thrilled to partner with McLaren and learn from their winning spirit and culture of going over and above. I see a lot of commonalities in our shared values to stretch, with courage and determination, so we can maximize performance and operational excellence. We want to run our lines with the speed, precision and efficiency of an F1 racing team.”
Zak Brown, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Racing, added, “We are thrilled to be partnering with Sanofi. It is important that two global companies who share values work together to maximise performance. We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Sanofi to make a positive impact not only in manufacturing but to help Sanofi improve patients’ lives.”
McLaren has successful experience in maximising performance of assets in a competitive high-pressure environment to bring speed and acceleration to change. This was evident during the Covid-19 pandemic when, through a joint effort across McLaren Group as part of a UK industry consortium, ventilator production was accelerated from 20 per week to 400 a day, by using data to support decision intelligence, and building the foundations for operational excellence.
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