Yxir.ia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EDF Group and a product of the EDF Pulse Incubation intrapreneurship program, offers manufacturers a solution that enables them to better manage the processing and analysis of data from their quality management systems in order to better control the quality of their products and services.

EDF Pulse Incubation, the EDF Group’s intrapreneurship program, is an incubator for employees of the EDF Group and its subsidiaries aimed at creating new sources of growth for EDF in four key strategic areas: sustainable regions, decentralized energy sources, services in more sustainable housing and competitive industry.

Yxir.ia is aimed at this last sector, and its solution will enable EDF to meet the challenge of “non-quality”, the cost of which for an industrial company amounts to around 9% of its turnover, according to an Afnor study.

Yxir.ia

This new subsidiary draws on EDF’s experience in industrial AI, but also on the many skills of the Group’s technicians, engineers and developers, to build applications natively designed in an industrial context and accessible to all types of industrial players. Its solution uses AI, in particular language processing algorithms, to unleash all the potential intelligence of a quality system to improve industrial performance.

It was born from the observation that although industrial quality systems are full of useful information to improve production processes, the quality of finished products or even their design, this data is under-exploited because, among other things, it is dispersed in databases that do not communicate with each other.

Yxir.ia offers manufacturers a homogeneous knowledge base that aggregates all the data from their quality management department that is relevant to quality management, regardless of its format or origin: ERP, EMS or CRM data, Excel files, Word or PDF documents, Sharepoint forms, etc., which enables them to deal with problems throughout the value chain.

Semantic analysis helps speed up problem resolution. Production managers can search for similar cases, find out how they were analyzed and solved and be directed to the relevant documentation (resolution guides, standard procedures, etc.). Quality engineers can quickly identify weak signals, isolate recurrences and perform more accurate cause analysis.

Julien Villeret, EDF Group Innovation Director, states:

“We are proud of the creation of this new subsidiary, which completes the EDF Group’s offer to our industrial customers. Thanks to its artificial intelligence solution, Yxir will enable industries to be more efficient and therefore more resilient. It will enable us to provide more global support to industrial companies in their efforts to achieve carbon neutrality, in line with the EDF Group’s innovation strategy.”

Translated from EDF propose aux industriels d’optimiser la qualité de leurs produits et services avec la solution d’IA de sa nouvelle filiale Yxir