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Generative AI
Combining Machine Learning and Generative AI for Automated C-Class Item Sourcing at GIS
GIS International struggled with slow, manual data processing in procurement, hindering strategic sourcing efficiency. Faktion developed an AI-driven solution to automating item classification and vendor matching resulting in faster operational sourcing, improved accuracy, and stronger strategic negotiations.
Smart Manufacturing & Maintenance
Optimising Energy Consumption with Predictive Modeling
Dapesco, part of the Metron Group, partnered with Faktion to enhance its Energy Management System (EMS) by integrating AI-driven predictive modeling and anomaly detection, enabling retail clients to optimize energy consumption and reduce costs. By addressing data inconsistencies and unpredictable variables, the solution achieved 93.4% accuracy in forecasting electricity usage, leading to significant efficiency gains and real-time monitoring capabilities.
Smart Manufacturing & Maintenance
Energy Forecasting & Price Optimisation
Nissha Metallizing Solutions (NMS) partnered with Faktion to develop an AI-driven energy forecasting and optimization tool to tackle the complexities of energy-intensive manufacturing and fluctuating energy prices.
Business AI
Transforming Banking with AI: An MLOps and Churn Prediction Success
Empowering a leading Belgian bank to enhance customer retention and streamline AI operations by implementing a secure MLOps framework, developing a churn prediction model, and delivering intuitive dashboards that democratized AI insights for business users.
Intelligent Data Quality Optimization
AI-Powered Employee Data Quality Optimization & Classification
A Belgian HR specialist, revolutionized their data management by implementing an AI-driven solution to standardise thousands of unstructured employee data.
Generative AI
Automating Manual Tasks at the European Council with Generative AI
This post highlights the European Council’s use of AI to streamline document management, improving efficiency and consistency while prioritizing data security.
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Generative AI
Transforming Business Operations with AI at Securex
Securex has partnered with Faktion to launch the Securex AI Lab, an innovation hub for developing AI solutions that enhance operations and strengthen its competitive position.
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Smart Manufacturing & Maintenance
Deploying AutoML for Effective Energy Balancing
This case explores a scalable AutoML platform that optimizes energy production and consumption through AI-driven forecasting and continuous monitoring.
Generative AI
GenAI in Physical Security with SAM, the AI Security Adviser
Explore how Pronect and Faktion are revolutionizing physical security with AI-driven innovations, building advanced tools for comprehensive risk management and enhanced user experiences.
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Smart Manufacturing & Maintenance
Optimizing Uptime and Lifespan of Machines with Predictive Maintenance
Explore AI’s impact on machine maintenance, from gearbox data analysis to refined anomaly detection with Fourier transformations. This revolutionizes efficiency and innovation in smart manufacturing.
Smart Manufacturing & Maintenance
Throughput & Energy Optimization in the Mining & Minerals Industry
Discover how Sibelco’s sustainability efforts led to significant improvements in clay press operations through strategic partnerships and data-driven insights, shaping a greener, more productive future.
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Intelligent Data Quality Optimization
Automated ETIM classification
Cebeo, a Belgian electronics distributor under the Sonepar group, partnered with Faktion to enhance data quality for reporting, product management, and commerce. This collaboration resulted in an AI system for automated ETIM search and classification.
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Exploring the AI landscape

MyT Learning & MySpeech
An AI language assistant that provides live subtitles for classroom lessons in Dutch, offering support to teachers for more effective language learning goals.
Making Images Accessible with Generative AI
Competitive Advantage in AI: It’s in Your Data, Processes, and Engineering—Not Just the LLM
Competitive advantage in AI isn’t about picking the perfect LLM—it’s about leveraging expert AI engineering to maximize the value of your data and effectively translate your existing processes into scalable AI systems.
Solving the Paradox of GenAI: Break through the glass ceiling of scaling GenAI
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize industries by automating complex tasks and augmenting human expertise, but many companies struggle to scale their AI prototypes into fully functional products. This challenge stems from a fundamental gap: AI engineers excel at building models but often lack the domain-specific knowledge to refine them, while industry experts can assess AI outputs but lack the technical tools to make adjustments. Bridging this gap is only possible by combining deep AI expertise, robust software engineering, and a product mindset to create AI tools that are not only powerful but also user-friendly and scalable.
Make your knowledge base AI-ready in 7 steps (Part 3)
The final step in building an AI-ready knowledge base is ensuring seamless usability, accuracy, and continuous improvement. Part 3 focuses on rigorous testing to validate precision, recall, and answer accuracy, intuitive user interfaces that enhance search and conversational AI interactions, and ongoing optimization through feedback loops, model refinements, and performance monitoring. These elements ensure your system remains dynamic, delivering precise and reliable information as user needs evolve.
Make your knowledge base AI-ready in 7 steps (Part 2)
An effective AI-ready knowledge base starts by thoroughly organizing content and aligning it with user needs, followed by enriching that content with proper metadata and indexing it for both precise and semantic retrieval. Ongoing feedback from experts ensures the information remains accurate and relevant, laying the groundwork for successful AI-driven search and assistance.
Make your knowledge base AI-ready in 7 steps (Part 1)
Building an AI-ready knowledge base goes far beyond simple document collection or implementing the latest AI models. Success lies in having a systematic approach, engaging domain experts, evaluations, and continuous iteration.
How We Improved Celery’s Azure Integration: From Redis to Blob Storage
Improving Celery’s integration with Azure can be achieved through streamlining task result storage and aligning with Azure’s architecture. By adopting a more efficient backend solution and enhancing it with secure authentication methods, the team simplified workflows, improved scalability, and contributed to the broader open-source community.
Doing RAG Right: Key Lessons For Production-Ready AI
Success in production AI relies on one key element: evaluations (Evals). In this post, we share key lessons learned from refining RAG workflows, highlighting the importance of data management, continuous testing, and optimization for building reliable, production-ready AI.
RAG Output Validation
RAG, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation, transforms Language Models (LLMs) by tapping into proprietary data access. Faktion has engineered a tailored framework to scale RAG from conception to deployment. Dive into the vital domain of RAG output validation with us, ensuring precise and relevant user responses.
The Intersection of AI and the Process Industry
Faktion pioneers seamless AI integration in the process industry, optimizing operations for efficiency and excellence. Collaborations across sectors like energy optimization and food sorting demonstrate AI’s transformative potential. Join us to shape a future where industry operations are smarter and continuously evolving.

Knowledge Sharing

Crafting JSON outputs for controlled text generation
This blog delves into generating structured JSON outputs from LLMs, addressing the challenge of obtaining reliable and organized data from their outputs, while considering recent developments in the field.
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Arian Pasquali
NLP Engineer
High fidelity synthetic images using GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks
GANs are pioneers in crafting lifelike synthetic images, with promising applications in computer vision, particularly in anomaly detection. Join us in delving into this intriguing realm!
MaartenFish
Maarten Fish
ML Engineer
Timeseries anomaly detection without anomalies
Let’s explore the challenge of anomaly detection in industrial data, where normal data often greatly outnumbers abnormal data. We guide you through time series anomaly detection, even when anomalous data is scarce or absent.
Tom Eversdijk
ML Engineer

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