Reinforcement learning, a growing focus of attention in the field of artificial intelligence, opens up new possibilities in the industrial sector. Artificial intelligence often proceeds in indirect and unexpected ways. Machine learning, for example, has long used – and still widely uses – a method that consists in identifying input and expected output data. The […]
Making smart cities relevant to an ageing population is a key issue for future regional policies, and one which start-ups have already been addressing. France is currently home to 1.5 million people aged 85 or over, with this figure set to triple in 30 years. In 2016, around 7,500 nursing homes welcomed more than 600,000 […]
Following a learning phase, large groups and startups must now take their partnership to a new level and optimise it. There is considerable scope for further progress and best practices are emerging, says Bernhard Kirchmair, Chief Digital Officer at VINCI Energies Deutschland. Gone are the days when large groups and startups ignored each other or […]
Actemium Lyon Process Solutions introduced a smart glasses system for its client Sanofi Pasteur to enable it to carry out acceptance testing for its equipment during full lockdown. Actemium Lyon Process Solutions, which specialises in stainless steel vessel manufacture, has been working since its inception in 1947 with the Institut Mérieux, its main client even […]
In Basel, Switzerland, two VINCI Energies brands – Axians and Actemium – put their heads together to quickly find innovative solutions enabling work to continue safely despite COVID-19. Covering a surface area of around 100,000m2, the uptownBasel hub, located in Arlesheim in the suburbs of Basel, is the largest construction site in north-west Switzerland. Work […]
Actemium Cambrai and Actemium Arras teams worked together to help Durand Production convert a windscreen washer fluid production line into a hand sanitiser production unit. In March 2020, when the management team at the Durand Production (CIPELIA Group) plant in Harnes, in the Pas-de-Calais department, gets wind of a call for projects launched by the […]
Quick Scan Energy is an audit tool developed by Actemium that identifies energy-saving measures on industrial sites to help reduce energy spend. More than one third (36 %) of fuel consumption in French industry, or 109.5 TWh, goes up in smoke each year. These figures, published in a study carried out by Ademe (the French Agency for […]
If the building sector is to play its part in the energy transition, then it must take steps to decarbonise. But how is a building’s carbon footprint calculated? Comfortably settled in your office, have you ever wondered if the building you occupy is properly insulated, what materials it was constructed with, where they came from, […]
In partnership with VINCI Energies, the Wind my Roof startup has developed an original power generation solution involving a compact wind turbine installed on building roof-tops. Antoine Brichot, co-founder of the startup, and Antoine de Broves, technical and innovation manager at Omexom, outline their collaboration which began in 2017. What makes the Wind my Roof […]
