Software developer Aize has acquired French industrial AI specialist Samp in a move designed to support industrial companies with managing complex asset information.

The service will address requirements throughout the lifecycles of assets, ranging from newer, greenfield facilities built around computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering models to brownfield facilities where technical information may be incomplete or outdated.

For offshore operators managing aging platforms, subsea systems and processing facilities, maintaining accurate asset data remains a persistent challenge. Digital twin technologies combined with AI-driven reality capture are increasingly being deployed to improve operational decision-making, maintenance planning and asset integrity management.

Samp’s AI-driven Shared Reality service is designed to convert “reality-capture” data, such as laser scans, into structured asset information, connecting physical structures in the field with engineering data such as tags, drawings, and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).

The technology is being deployed across more than 500 industrial facilities, including some in the energy sector.

Aize software users include bp, ExxonMobil, SBM Offshore, Aker BP and Aker Solutions.

Together, the two companies will target the full spectrum of industrial facilities and projects, both greenfield and brownfield, via CAD-based and reality-based digital twins, and engineering/operations and maintenance-centric workflows. Aize said.