Why we are doing this, step by step.

Fact

We started by measuring.

The AKRIBIS company was constituted in 2003. The AKRIBIS unit, dedicated to measuring instruments and equipment for industry, appears in our records as the unit the company grew from. The records of those beginnings are few and do not always agree: we still need to reconstruct them from sources.

Fact

We grew by specialising, and became digital.

Eight more specialisations joined: laboratory equipment, cold preservation, metrology, pharmaceutical engineering, regulatory affairs, automation, software and data, and remote monitoring. Along the way we built our own software, our own monitoring platform and our own calibration systems, and today we work with artificial intelligence every day.

See the nine units

Interpretation

Doing became cheap. Deciding what to do did not.

With artificial intelligence we can do much more, faster and better. But when doing becomes cheap, the hard part becomes defining what to do and how: why we exist, what we want to achieve, where we compete, how we work and how we know it is working. Without that definition, technology only accelerates what we were already doing.

Interpretation

We grew piece by piece.

Each specialisation brought its own systems, each good at its job. The challenge now is to make them work as a whole. And we learned that connecting systems is not enough unless we first define the company we want to be.

Interpretation

Our customers have the same problem.

A regulated plant has to prove that its instruments and processes stayed in a valid state all the time. Today that proof is rebuilt by hand, from documents supplied by many providers, and nobody answers for the whole. Inside and outside, the same shape: the pieces exist; the coherence does not.

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What we do, multiplied by systems and software.

An instrument becomes an asset with a digital identity and a lifecycle. Calibration becomes continuous intelligence about every asset. Monitoring becomes live information about the operation. Automation becomes the layer through which action is taken. Validation and regulatory work become connected compliance. And AKRIBIS One becomes not only an offer but an operating environment.

Interpretation

Without calling it that, we were building one system.

Each unit works on a different layer of the same chain, from the instrument to the decision. What is missing is the top layer, the one that connects them: strategy and management.

One chain, traceable both ways.

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From the strategy to the sensors.

We want a single chain, traceable in both directions. Intent flows down, from purpose to an action in a plant. Evidence flows up, from a calibrated sensor to the objective it affects. With it, a customer's operation can be represented at three levels, physical, operational and managerial, and we can add value no isolated specialist can.

Decision

That is why we are building a strategy and management system.

It organises strategy as seven linked questions, from why we exist to how we learn. A core understands the company, connects the systems that already exist without replacing them, and coordinates people and tools, with important decisions always in human hands. The management system first, the software after. AKRIBIS is the first organisation to use it.

System

Bet

And then: businesses that execute a system.

What we solve for ourselves can serve our customers, who would manage their operation from strategy down to the calibrated instrument. And it can give rise to new businesses, designed from the start as a working system: strategy written, operations configured, sensors connected.

Go to the site: akribis.one

Open question

Why we exist remains open.

We have clues: we started by measuring, grew towards everything needed to trust what is measured, and decided to integrate it. There are formulations under discussion, none approved. We will not invent our purpose: we will look for it and test it with this same system.

Method

How to walk through this reasoning again.

Each step has its sources and what would refute it. If the facts change, the reasoning changes with them, and the reason is recorded.

Open question

What does AKRIBIS exist for?

There are clues and formulations under discussion, none approved.

Open question

Is going from strategy to sensors right?

It is the direction we chose. We have yet to say as clearly what we would not do.

Open question

Which pilot shows the whole chain, in miniature?

There are two candidates: from a complaint to its corrective action, or a customer's instruments kept in a valid state.

Open question

Do the seven layers stand up to the evidence?

We use them to order the work, but we do not protect them: the research may change them.