A Swiss engineering company Over twenty years in business

Engineering software that has to keep working.

Artabel is a Swiss engineering company. We build information systems, industrial instrumentation and applied AI for industry, healthcare and cultural institutions. Our oldest system has been in daily production at an aluminium plant since 2008.

2004 Founded
2008 The Confal enterprise platform has run in daily production since
2015 The EPFL decision-support mandate has run since
4 Areas of work: applied AI, enterprise software, systems integration, instrumentation

Where our systems run

Aluminium smelting · SK Semiconductor manufacturing · INT University Hospital of Basel · CH EPFL laboratory safety · CH Real-estate asset management · CH Technical university VR lab · SK Open-air heritage museum · CH

What we do

Four areas of work.

Artabel covers both the modelling and the engineering that puts it into service — integration, access control, release, and the years of maintenance afterwards.

01

Applied AI

Retrieval and document intelligence, computer vision, speech and structured extraction, predictive modelling, data-centric AI.

02

Enterprise software

Configurable workflow and information systems with role-based access, approvals, reporting and analytics, built to be maintained for a decade.

03

Systems integration

Connectors, APIs, data pipelines, migration and deployment into estates that were never designed to be connected.

04

Instrumentation & 3D

Sensing and smart devices in hostile environments, real-time tracking, plus 3D visualisation and immersive interfaces.

Work

Client systems.

01 — VRPIS · 2008–present

A configurable enterprise platform for an aluminium producer

Role-based workflow, document circulation and approval, procurement, inventory, logistics, accounting, reporting and external-system integration — deployed at Confal, Slovakia’s largest producer of aluminium alloys.

02 — LARA · EPFL Lausanne · 2015–present

An expert method turned into auditable decision-support software

Artabel translated a specialist laboratory risk-assessment methodology into structured data capture, transparent calculation logic, corrective-measure assessment and reportable output. The rules are encoded so a safety officer can inspect every step.

03 — Document intelligence · 2023–present

Source-grounded retrieval across an eight-year archive

Ingestion, OCR and metadata extraction feeding semantic search, source-grounded generation and assisted analysis under human review — with AI-driven classification, reputation monitoring and a portfolio dashboard on top. Generated answers cite the source document and page.

Research projects

Engineering in funded research.

Artabel contributes software engineering and systems integration to European research projects.

Method

Evaluation before release.

AI systems are evaluated against task-specific criteria agreed with the client. The evaluation typically includes a relevant baseline, representative test material and review by someone qualified to judge the output.

How we work

Scope, prototype, validate, implement.

Four stages, each ending in a decision you can act on: whether the data supports the task, whether a prototype behaves, whether the measurement holds, and whether the system is ready to run in your environment.

Next step

Tell us about the task.

Describe the problem and the constraints around it, and we will come back with how we would approach it.