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Applying Agentic AI towards enabling computerized maintenance management systems
In the critical domain of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), solutions like CARL Source empower businesses to efficiently create, schedule, and manage maintenance tasks. These platforms are widely used to coordinate work orders for repairing industrial machinery across multiple factories worldwide. *Update: Coruscant is the name given internally to this R&D project. The commercial name associated with the product is now CARL AI Gen. Traditionally, when a piece of equipment
PowerBuilder 12.5 goes to the Web!
A few months ago, Berger Levrault’s research team published an article on the result of an experiment allowing a JAVA application to work together with a Visual Basic 6 application. This work showed that you could use business components developed in Visual Basic 6 from JAVA and even “run” an entire application without having to
Augmented Reality in HealthCare
This week we responded to a call for projects from the ANS (French Digital Health Agency calls Structure 3.0. We proposed a totally new approach to interact with BL.soins, based on Microsoft Hololens and augmented reality techniques.The project aims at experimenting with augmented reality, its value, and acceptance in health care for older adults. But
The SoftScanner project: How to trace your front-end automatically?
Following the cooperation of three institutions: the University of Montpellier, the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and the Berger-Levrault company, the SoftScanner project is now underway. SoftScanner is a Model-Driven Approach for the Automatic Generation of Optimal Anchoring Configurations for Software System Execution Tracing Operations. Context and Problem Developers write “logging instructions” in the source
Why your Interoperability needs to be monitored
BL MOM and RabbitMQ Interoperability is one of the key challenges for enterprise information systems engineering. The lack of interoperability among applications and their sub-systems is a critical issue that can affect the overall quality of service. Data interoperability is implemented through data transport and exchange systems, the latter must be reliable and secure to
Building an Ontological Knowledge Base from Berger Levrault Editorial database
Context Ontologies are widely used in information retrieval (IR), Questions/Answers, and decision support systems, and have gained recognition as they are now being considered the new answer to semantic interoperability in modern computer systems and the next big solution for knowledge representation. The structuring and management of knowledge are at the heart of the concerns
Scientific paper accepted at the QUATIC 2020 conference
A few weeks ago, 3 DRI engineers had their paper accepted in the QUATIC 2020 conference. QUATIC 2020 is the 13th conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, which will take place on September 8-11, 2020. The selected paper is about: “Challenges for Layout Validation: Lessons Learned”. As part of Berger Levrault’s program
Adaptative Maintenance: CARL’S IoT Platform
In 2016, industrial customers have asked us about our vision of the industry of the future, and in particular the maintenance function.We set up a working group including 3 major industrial accounts to study the impact of the Plant 4.0 concept on maintenance: digital tools, organization, skills, new business models, and confidence in digital technology.After
DevOps & Middleware: a new project to facilitate the management of our deployments and enhance their reliability
A new collaboration project has been initiated with the team Spirals of INRIA Lille laboratory. In this project, we want to address the steering, orchestration, and maintenance mechanisms for our applications’ packaging, delivery, and deployment activities. The lack of formalization and traceability on the actions that are carried out for the deployment of our applications,
The Helios Project
A few weeks ago, the DRIT began working on a particularly innovative project that should be useful to us all: The Helios project.The ambition is to build an automatic observatory that collects, sorts, and classifies information from the net. The system is intended to be flexible and should enable us to keep a watch on
Knowledge at your fingertips: Building an Ontological Knowledge Base from our Editorial database
Our times are increasingly influenced by the prevalence of large volumes of data. These data most often hide great human intelligence. This intrinsic knowledge; whatever the field; would allow our information systems to be much more efficient in the processing and interpretation of structured and unstructured data. For example, the process of finding relevant documents
36th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2025 (Bangkok – Thailand)
20th International Conference on Software Technologies – ICSOFT 2025 (Spain)
CIFRE Strategic orientation committee x ANRT (Paris – France)
Regional morning: Transforming maintenance into a profit center x Swarm itc and AFIM (Charbonnières Les Bains – France)
9th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software – GREENS’25 (Ottawa – Canada)
Hamza Safri Ph.D. thesis defense: “Federated learning for the IoT : Application for Industry 4.0”
Thuesday 24th June at 3pm Paris time, Hamza Safri, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Federated learning for the IoT: Application for Industry 4.0”. His thesis defense took place at the Inria Minatec Grenoble, Grenoble, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Model generalization, predictive maintenance, industrial IoT, federated learning, edge network,
ESUG 2025: Six contributions and 2 prizes for the Software Engineering Lab team!
Congratulations to our PhDs Nicolas Hlad, Aless Hosry, Benoit Verhaeghe and Pascal Zaragoza from Berger-Levrault’s BL.Research team for their participation in the 2025 edition of the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) conference! This year’s conference took place from July 1-4 in Gdansk, Poland. The theme was innovation in Smalltalk technologies and their use in software
Julien Breton Ph.D. thesis defense: “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”
Friday, 27th June at 1.30 pm Paris time, Julien Breton, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”. His thesis defense took place at the IRIT research laboratory, Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Legal compliance,Industrial maintenance, Norm extraction,LLM (Large
New White Paper – AI for maintenance! Challenges, Opportunities and Case Studies
How is artificial intelligence transforming maintenance practices today? What are the concrete opportunities for equipment, infrastructure and fleet managers? The new white paper published by CARL Berger-Levrault offers a rich and accessible insight into these strategic questions. Entitled “AI at the service of maintenance: challenges, opportunities and case studies”, this document summarizes experience in the
New White Paper – Agentic AI, a Software and Societal Revolution!
Research at Berger-Levrault is tackling a new frontier in artificial intelligence: that of (partially) autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, collaborating, orchestrating and learning in complex business environments. Our new white paper, “Beyond automation – How agentic AI is transforming the software industry”, shares with you an in-depth analysis of this ongoing technological revolution, its
Clément talks at BIM World 2025 on the future of augmented maintenance using BIM models
At BIM World 2025, held in Paris on April 2-3, Clément Colin, our research engineer in BL Research team, spoke at a workshop dedicated to Digital Twins, alongside Laurent Truscello, Product Marketing Manager at Carl Berger-Levrault. The theme of their talk: “GEM & GMAO – Valuing and increasing the use of your BIM models for
From the Iberian sun to the Rising sun for federated learning
On September 2024, we had the opportunity to attend two international conferences related to a segment of our work in artificial intelligence : Data Training Without Perturbative Adjustments for Predictive Maintenance The FLTA24 took place from September 17 to 19 in Valencia, Spain. As part of this research, we studied a concrete case: predictive maintenance,
Discover our 2024 Research & Innovation Yearbook!
We are delighted to present the first edition of the Research and Innovation Yearbook. This annual retrospective reflects the commitment and ambition of our Research and Technological Innovation Department at Berger-Levrault (also available in French and Spanish versions below). By highlighting our most audacious projects and innovative initiatives, we hope to share with you the
