In Vigolzone, near Piacenza city, is based one of the most advanced European companies in the industrial automation sector: MCM, designing, building and installing machining cells and high-precision, high-speed flexible manufacturing systems. Founded in 1978, the company was a precursor in the development of the automated factory: from the horizontal machining centers of the Clock, Tank, Action, Forerunner and Jet Five series, up to Concept, providing extremely high levels of performance in terms of speed, precision, flexibility, time- and cost-reduction.