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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 field, feedback from solutions such as CARL Source and CARL Optim, and the prospects opened
Backend monolithic app to microservices architecture migration – 2nd part
Find the first part of the article by following this link In the first part article, we’ve explained how to identify microservices candidates by extracting the layered architecture artifacts from the existing code of a monolithic application. Several approaches address this first step, though they either do not address the materialization step or complete this
BL.Conecta, the future kernel of city’s intermediation platforms?
Context Since few years, we observe the rise of intermediation platforms and web services consumption used through these multitude of platforms. The fact is that intermediation environments put in relation a producer/seller with a web user/consumer to enable a transaction (sales, exchange, share of products or services) that create value. Intermediation platforms are used as
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Backend monolithic app to microservices architecture migration – 1st part
Generally, companies software are built in a three part system: a client side/user interface, a database, and a side-server application called a monolith. Monoliths are often built as a single logical executable, in a single-tiered with multiple layers: presentation, business logic, and data-access. These apps are easy to design and develop, though they are difficult
Maintenance queries classification with NLP
When our client equipment needs maintenance intervention for any reason, they can request it through Carl Source, our CMMS software. Those intervention queries will be received by the technical service which will analyze it, pre-qualify it and associate it to an intervention type before scheduling it. Some interventions are more urgent to other and some
Proof of concept : Interoperability Java – MS Access by Benoît Verhaeghe and Julien Morgan de Rivery
We led this project to determine the possibility to control a Microsoft Access 2013 application (or more recent versions) from a Java program to enable its migration.We’ve set up a two-steps approach: A first step to allow the utilization of Access software Application Programming Interface (API). Then, we studied the API to let us manipulate
Semantic relationship generating
Relationship identification in documents is part of a project about knowledge graph.A knowledge graph is a way to graphically present semantic relationship between subjects like peoples, places, organizations etc. which makes possible to synthetically show a body of knowledge. For instance, figure 1 present a social media knowledge graph, we can find some information about
BL.Optim, a better visualization for a better organization
Scheduling staff interventions can easily become a hard work with all the constraints to consider (working time, required skills, localization…). So our team worked on an optimized engine which generates a relevant schedule according to the constraints and standards added by the user (see the corresponding articles for CARL Source or BL.Domicile). But we wondered:
Meet Tiago : The future elderly’s best friend
Since August and this article explaining the context and the methodology, our team has used to co-design a social mobile robot with healthcare professional; Tiago has grown up.He has been designed to help and entertain elderly people but also to support caregivers in health services and institutions (EHPAD, day care, rehabilitation center, SSIAD, SSAD).Studying the
Semantic Mediation for Data Exchange
In the current socioeconomic context, companies must work together. Interoperability, which is the action to work together through systems is an unconditional factor to do so. To work, the information shared needs to be compatible. Information can be incompatible when they’re built differently by people or systems.Mediation goal is to manage syntactic and semantic information
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)
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
Julien at EKAW 2024 for his work on extracting legal data from LLMs
On December 3, 2024 in Amsterdam, Julien Breton – Research Engineer at Berger-Levrault (Team BL.Research) took part in the EKAW 2024 (European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop) conference. His paper demonstrates how the alliance between large language models (LLMs) and software architectures can optimize data annotation: a consequent time and cost saving, and greater reliability for technical
Benoit receives the Prix Science Ouverte 2024: Recognition of excellence and openness in Research at Berger-Levrault
In a world where science plays a crucial role in meeting economic, environmental and societal challenges, the notion of openness in research is taking on strategic importance. Organised by the Committee for Open Science (CoSO) and supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the Open Science Awards embody this commitment by recognising
Nicolas Ringuet Ph.D. thesis defense: “Modeling, Exploration, and Explainable Co-construction of Lifelong Pathways”
Thuesday 5th of November at 14h a.m. Paris time, Nicolas Ringet, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Modeling, Exploration, and Explainable Co-construction of Lifelong Pathways”. His thesis defense took place at the IUT in Blois, France. Take a look at the summary below : Summary This thesis explores the mechanisms of personalized support systems,
