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SCHMIDT GROUPE in L’Usine Nouvelle: artificial intelligence designed to support businesses

How can artificial intelligence be integrated into the company while maintaining the central role of human expertise? This is the question addressed by Daniel Freyd, Information Systems Director at Schmidt Groupe, in an article recently published by L’Usine Nouvelle.

For several years now, the Group has been developing its own artificial intelligence solutions with a simple aim: to provide practical help to employees in their day-to-day work. The aim is not to replace jobs, but to facilitate certain tasks and provide teams with tools tailored to their needs.

In plants, these solutions are used in particular to support maintenance technicians. The tools are based on more than twenty years’ worth of data and the history of interventions, to suggest diagnostic avenues in the event of a breakdown. Decisions are still taken by the experts in the field, but they have additional information to help them identify the source of a problem more quickly and prepare their intervention.

Support functions are also benefiting from these developments. Schmidt Groupe has set up a single portal bringing together the various artificial intelligence tools used in the company. The aim is to simplify usage and give employees more direct access to the resources they need.

Marketing teams are also using these new solutions to produce certain types of content. Whether it’s creating images, preparing texts or producing videos, artificial intelligence can reduce the time spent on the most repetitive tasks. This means that staff can concentrate more on the creative aspects, analysis and development of brand strategies.

Through this testimonial published in L’Usine Nouvelle, Schmidt Groupe shares its approach to artificial intelligence: a technology put at the service of the men and women in the company, developed on the basis of needs on the ground and designed as a tool to support the business lines.