Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification, and Microsoft, the leader in productivity platforms and services, announced the conclusion of a global technical and business collaboration for the development of laboratory testing services based on artificial intelligence (AI).
Bureau Veritas has incorporated digital technology as a key factor to leverage its growth initiatives as part of its 2015-2020 strategic plan.
Bureau Veritas has teamed up with world leaders to offer new services incorporating new digital technologies in the fields of asset construction, with digital twins of buildings or ships, the control of the supply chain, with the blockchain, and the enhanced inspection of industrial assets by advanced data analysis. By joining forces today with Microsoft, Bureau Veritas will develop the use of artificial intelligence in its testing activities, while consolidating its technical approach by creating a data lab bringing together Bureau Veritas’ experts in AI.
This alliance is the result of a first collaborative initiative in oil condition monitoring for Bureau Veritas’ Commodities business. Bureau Veritas plans to extend the use of artificial intelligence in all its laboratories through this partnership. These augmented laboratory services will be applicable to all types of tests on commodities, consumer products and components, in order to check that they comply with standards, regulations or customer specifications, and to conduct independent risk assessments.
The Bureau Veritas Group’s engineers and technicians will use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to boost their production capacity and to deploy new test processes. Microsoft will support Bureau Veritas in the use of these tools, but also to show the Group’s customers how progress in artificial intelligence is being used in laboratory testing.