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April 2026
PERKS S5 – A Procedural Knowledge Management System leveraging a Common Semantic Layer
Industrial processes increasingly rely on complex procedures that need to be accurate, traceable, interoperable, and easily accessible. Yet, procedural knowledge is often scattered across documents, systems, or even different software tools, making it difficult to maintain, reuse, or connect [...]
March 2026
Women in AI and Women in Industry: Key Insights from the 3rd PERKS Webinar
The third webinar in the PERKS series, held on March 8th, 2026, focused on “Women in AI and Women in Industry.” Moderated by Irene Celino, PERKS project coordinator, the discussion brought together five professionals working across different areas of AI and industrial innovation: Enrica Bosani, Ekin Demir, [...]
Agentic Voice: Extending Procedural Knowledge beyond the Chat Interface
In our previous blog post, “Agentic Conversational AI for Consuming Procedural Knowledge”, we introduced how the PERKS Conductor Agent enables users to interact dynamically with structured procedures. In that example, procedural knowledge was accessed through a chat widget, allowing [...]
February 2026
PERKS S2 – Supporting Users to Elicit Tacit Procedures and Build an Actionable Knowledge Graph
In many industrial scenarios, crucial operational knowledge is still undocumented: it lives in the experience of workers rather than in formal procedures. When documentation does exist, it is often unstructured, heterogeneous, and difficult for machines to interpret. The PERKS [...]
Agentic Conversational AI for Consuming Procedural Knowledge
PERKS provides a chatbot solution that helps stakeholders in manufacturing exploit procedural knowledge in an efficient and traceable way. Instead of relying on static documents or scattered instructions, users can interact with a conversational assistant that guides them through [...]
PERKS S1: Turning Procedural Documents into Actionable Knowledge Graphs
Procedural knowledge is everywhere — from technical manuals and safety guidelines to research protocols and industrial documentation. Yet most of this knowledge remains locked inside static PDF files, difficult to access, reuse, or integrate into intelligent systems. PERKS Solution [...]
September 2025
How Knowledge Elicitation supports Industrial Applications
One of the central challenges in industrial environments is capturing the know-how of experienced operators and turning it into actionable knowledge. Much of this expertise is tacit, stored in people’s minds, or scattered across documents and manuals. To make [...]
January 2025
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ASPECTS IN AI AND DATA MANAGEMENT – 2nd PERKS Webinar
Details Addressing environmental sustainability is one of the most pressing issues of our time. In a digital world, technologies must be designed in an environmentally-friendly way to face sustainability challenges. How can AI minimize its carbon footprint while maintaining [...]
December 2024
KG4DI Seminar: Empowering Industrial Procedures with Knowledge Graphs – Mario Scrocca, Umutcan Serles
In the industrial domain, Procedural Knowledge (PK) refers to structured processes to be followed, e.g., on the production line of a plant. Oftentimes, such knowledge is not explicitly documented, or, when documented, the only digital source of PK is [...]
November 2024
PERKS IS SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPING A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
PERKS project aims to enable more efficient, effective procedural knowledge management and procedure execution through semantic modeling of procedural knowledge and AI applications that make use of this knowledge. To achieve this, a key part is the PERKS architecture [...]