The challenge: digital solutions help us adapt our industrial processes,
with the main goal of improving the well-being of our 270 employees and making our jobs more attractive: it is one of the major challenges facing the industry for the years to come. Moreover, the growth of our activity forces us to optimise our production capacity. Finally, our highly competitive industry obliges us to keep our prices competitive to enable us to continue production in France.
“ We want to go further with the digital transition. Industry 4.0 is not a dream: it is the future of our industry. ”
The current project with Equans is one of the most complex that we have ever carried out. It consists in designing and deploying a robotic solution associated with a heterogeneous palletisation algorithm, to enable consistent pallets to be made up with packages of very different sizes and weights while minimising wasted space and respecting constraints of weight and balance. This solution will enable us to limit handling by operators, streamline activities, optimise production space, better meet delivery deadlines for our clients’ orders, secure flows and circulation and improve our output. The Equans teams perfectly understood our needs and were able to propose the ideal solution. The close relationship that we have developed over several years, coupled with the peace of mind provided by the size of the group and the means deployed for our project via the Equans Digital network, have fully confirmed our trust. We want to go further with the digital transition (AGVs, control monitors, dematerialisation, etc.). We expect a partner like Equans to understand us, inspire us and propose the solutions we need. Industry 4.0 is not a dream: it is the future of our industry.
The solution: we are one of the only players to integrate such a combination of expertise across the entire data set.
Equans Digital was born in 2022 through the federation of a network of entities representing 9,000 experts in 20 countries with a turnover of €1.5 bn. Our goal is to provide our clients with customised digital solutions to improve their technical, environmental or service performance, whether it be for industry (robotics, automation, industry 4.0, etc.), buildings (technical management of buildings, audiovisual, smart buildings, etc.) or cities (video surveillance, hypervision, smart cities, etc.).
“ Our Equans Digital clients are businesses and local authorities seeking appropriate solutions for their professional context. ”
Our Equans Digital clients are businesses and local authorities seeking appropriate solutions for their professional context. It may be a complete turnkey solution that associates technical equipment with the digital aspect, or a purely digital solution, such as a BOS (Building Operating System) for tertiary clients or a telecontrol system for the operators of gas infrastructure.
Our strength?
Firstly, we are one of the only players possessing all of the expertise enabling integration of the entire chain of technical data, from its production to its exploitation, while managing cybersecurity, interoperability and data science. Next, we work with central hubs of expertise, who provide cutting-edge know-how, and local teams for the deployment, ensuring long-term proximity with our clients.
And tomorrow?
The first trend we observe is the challenge of system interoperability, to break down silos and commit to the rationale of hypervision. Depending on whether one operates in the world of tertiary buildings, industry or regions, we speak of Smart buildings or BOS, Industry 4.0 or indeed hypervisors. The second notable trend concerns the convergence of OT (Operational Technologies) and IT (Information Technologies): operating systems are increasingly connected and must interact with IT to exploit data. These two trends, interoperability and IT-OT convergence, generate a greater need for cybersecurity vigilance, which our teams understand and manage for each of our projects.