In early March, Transvalor, a leader in materials shaping simulation, and CentraleSupélec, through its French Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI Hub), signed for the first time a prefiguration contract for industrial research dedicated to AI, with the aim of exploring all the possibilities offered by AI applied to digital simulation, and more specifically to Transvalor solutions. This collaboration will lead to the creation of an industrial chair open to many partners.
CentraleSupélec
CentraleSupélec, born of the merger of Ecole Centrale and Supélec in 2015, is a public institution that covers all of the Engineering and Systems Sciences, placed under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs. This engineering school has 4,300 students and 17 laboratories and research teams, including the AI Hub and its 80 teacher-researchers in artificial intelligence.
The school is highly internationalized and has forged more than 170 partnerships with the world’s best institutions, including Mila, one of the largest American AI centers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
This benchmark center, ranked among the world’s top institutions, is a founding member of the Université Paris-Saclay and chairs the Ecoles Centrale Group (Lyon, Lille, Nantes and Marseille), which operates international locations (Beijing (China), Hyderabad (India), Casablanca (Morocco)).
The AI Hub, launched in 2020, brings together 20 post-doctoral students, 150 doctoral students, 80 teacher-researchers, and approximately 1,700 researchers working in 7 main laboratories with the aim of coordinating and improving actions in the field of AI.
Transvalor
Transvalor, a French company founded in 1984 and based in Sophia Antipolis, defines itself as ” a multicultural team with expertise in cutting-edge technologies forsimulation and structural analysis.” It collaborates with major university laboratories, such as the École des Mines de Paris, CentraleSupélec…
The suite of high-performance simulation software, which covers a wide range of forming processes for metals in the solid or liquid state, as well as for polymers, that it has developed is aimed at many industrial sectors: energy, automotive, aeronautics, construction, medical, watchmaking, sports and leisure…
Transvalor has branches and an extensive network of distributors in the United States, Arabia, China and India.
A unique program
For Transvalor and CentraleSupélec, agile and collaborative innovation is the key to supporting industries in their technological transition and meeting the challenges of the future: optimizing industrial processes, energy efficiency, production integrating the circular economy and the reuse of materials…
Numerical simulation is an essential means of assisting the design of industrial parts. It allows to limit the number of prototypes, to detect manufacturing defects and thus to considerably reduce development cycles and costs.
To explore together all the possibilities of AI applied to digital simulation. CentraleSupélec and Transvalor will demonstrate tangible proofs of concept, which will be perpetuated in an industrial chair, open to many other partners.
A huge field of application
The application of AI in industrial modeling is one of the recent developments in digital sciences applied to the engineering field.
Thanks to ML, data or digital twins, it is now possible to predict and generalize best practices applied to industry. In addition to accelerating computing speeds, AI allows for a reduction in the amount of waste produced and for greater energy efficiency in manufacturing processes. This allows manufacturers to take their place in the circular economy and reduce their carbon footprint.
An unprecedented collaboration in materials science
CentraleSupélec’s AI Hub is a historical partner of Mila, which opens the door to strategic partnerships with North American industry.
In addition to Transvalor’s R&D teams, Frédéric Pascal, Deputy Director of the DATAIA Institute at the University of Paris-Saclay and head of CentraleSupélec’s AI Hub, Emmanuel Vasquez, Frédéric Magoulès, and Francesca Bugiotti are part of this unique collaboration. Researchers, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, CentraleSupélec students and several engineers from Transvalor are working on various scientific topics specific to high performance computing. Robert Brunck, president of Transvalor, explains:
“With CEMEF and DATAIA, two highly complementary scientific and technological leaders, Transvalor is proud to open new avenues for its material simulation software. Thus, our historical cooperation in materials science with the Ecole des Mines de Paris is enriched through this new and powerful partnership with the leader of Industry 4.0 AI in France. It is an expression of our ambition to serve our clients who are strongly committed to their digital transition. “
CX Exed, CentraleSupélec’s subsidiary dedicated to continuing education, will train Transvalor employees involved in collaborative research projects in AI.
This partnership, which is fully in line with the France 2030 plan, is a major opportunity for the future of industry.
Translated from Transvalor et CentraleSupélec signent un contrat de recherche industrielle dédiée à l’IA
