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September 25, 2026
Equans is strengthening its commitment to the industry of the future alongside DIWII and the Institut Mines-Télécom
A Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Industrial Innovation
Equans is taking a new step forward in its commitment to digital and industrial transformation by strengthening its partnership with DIWII (Digital Intelligence Way for Industry Innovation), the innovation platform of the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and Mines Saint-Étienne. Through its membership in the BRAIN Chair, at the highest level of partnership, Equans is at the heart of an ecosystem of excellence dedicated to the technologies of the industry of the future.
Signed for a two-year term, this partnership enables Equans to actively contribute to the development of innovative solutions in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins, and the digitisation of industrial processes.
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DIWII: A Full-Scale Laboratory for the Industry of the Future
Located at the Charbonnières-les-Bains Digital Region Campus, the DIWII platform is a unique space where industry professionals, researchers, students, and technology experts collaborate to explore the practical applications of digital technologies.
Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), digital twin, digital lean, and even cobotics: DIWII provides an operational environment that enables companies to evaluate, test, and accelerate the adoption of the most promising innovations.
For Equans Digital, this close relationship with academic and industrial ecosystems is a key driver for identifying emerging trends, testing innovations against real-world conditions, and supporting its clients’ transformations with ever-greater effectiveness.
A concrete contribution to industrial artificial intelligence
Beyond the financial partnership, Equans Digital is also contributing its technological expertise by providing an industrial AI demonstrator designed to enhance DIWII’s experimentation facilities.
This demonstrator combines computer vision technologies developed in Python with an advanced industrial monitoring platform. It demonstrates Equans Digital’s ability to integrate artificial intelligence building blocks into real-world industrial environments to transform data into decision-making and operational tools.
This approach reflects Equans’ DNA: making innovative technologies immediately accessible, understandable, and value-creating for manufacturers.
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Accelerating the Transfer of Innovation to Businesses
One of the major challenges facing the industry of the future is reducing the time between technological experimentation and its large-scale implementation. Through the BRAIN Chair, Equans is participating in a program whose goal is precisely to support this transfer of knowledge and innovation to businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-sized companies.
This initiative helps strengthen French industrial competitiveness while fostering the emergence of solutions capable of addressing today’s major challenges:
- Digitisation of industrial operations;
- Data monetisation;
- Cybersecurity for critical environments;
- Energy optimisation;
- Artificial Intelligence Applied to Industry;
- Infrastructure performance and resilience.
Building the Industrial Innovations of Tomorrow
For Equans, this partnership is part of a long-term strategy that combines business expertise, technological innovation, and collaboration with the best academic ecosystems.
By joining DIWII’s BRAIN Chair, Equans Digital reaffirms its ambition: to help manufacturers turn the promise of artificial intelligence, data, and digital technologies into concrete, measurable, and sustainable results.
Accelerate Your Industrial Innovation Projects
Drawing on its expertise in artificial intelligence, data, automation, and digital transformation, Equans Digital helps manufacturers design and deploy innovative solutions tailored to their business challenges. Discover how to turn your experiments into concrete, lasting results.Accelerate Your Industrial Innovation Projects
Drawing on its expertise in artificial intelligence, data, automation, and digital transformation, Equans Digital helps manufacturers design and deploy innovative solutions tailored to their business challenges. Discover how to turn your experiments into concrete, lasting results.