What if your machines could talk… and your 2D drawings rebuilt themselves into 3D?
That’s not science fiction — it’s what’s already happening in French industrial AI.
In this episode of AI Across the Product Lifecycle, I sat down with
🇫🇷 Laurent Couillard, CEO of InUse, and
🇫🇷 Olivier Mathey, CEO of SP3D,
two founders who are quietly reprogramming the future of manufacturing.
🔧 InUse helps factories fight “industrial amnesia” — capturing the know-how of retiring technicians so machines can literally explain themselves using agentic AI.
📐 SP3D is tackling one of the hardest nuts in design automation: converting 2D drawings into manufacturable 3D models — no CAD expert required.
Together, we dove into:
⚙️ Why GenAI isn’t replacing engineers — it’s giving them back their time.
⚙️ How speed + quality (not size) are the real AI advantages against billion-dollar incumbents.
⚙️ Why the “silver tsunami” of retiring experts makes AI adoption not optional but existential.
⚙️ And how Europe’s sovereign AI wave (think Mistral, not Mountain View) is shaping a new industrial balance.
🎧 Watch here: [YouTube Link]
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