Assystem - 2018 Register document

PRESENTATION OF THE GROUP ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

creating an automated system for batch analysing multiple files for the pharma group GSK. The partnerships set up by the Group with start-ups (Saagie, Sparte and Rebim), universities and engineering schools ( École des Mines d'Alés , ESIEA, the DataScience Institute, INSA Lyon, Arts et Métiers and INSA Rouen) are a key factor in ensuring we have the agility and responsiveness required to successfully carry out these projects.

The Group’s management team oversees the Imagine programme based on criteria that factor in the technological maturity of the solutions proposed and the markets they are looking to address. One of the highlights of 2018 was the Imagine innovation contest organised by Assystem to encourage employees to come up with new ideas and help put those ideas into practice. This contest was also aimed at helping discover new solutions to sharpen the Group’s competitive edge and/or open up new business opportunities. Examples of the ideas that emerged are: (i) a web platform that uses artificial intelligence to match up skills profiles with the client’s project specifications and, (ii) a system specifically developed for EDF which involves installing sensors on the water filtering systems at power plants to be used as pilots for a predictive maintenance offering for those systems. In the systems engineering field, Assystem has teamed up with a major French research organisation, the CEA, to jointly develop the first “digital twin” of a nuclear facility. The idea is based on an original data model and an interoperable “data aggregator” approach implemented in partnership with Rosatom and EDF. This technology helps the Group stand out from the competition for many digital transformation projects and highlights the added value it can bring to nuclear engineering project management. The Group proposed incorporating this approach into the ConnexiTy project being carried out by EDF’s R&D teams, in order to build a data model. This type of model can then be used as a basis for new equipment maintenance services in nuclear facilities, notably by providing virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence as operator aids. Working in partnership with Dassault Systèmes and Thales, Assystem has also developed an original methodology based on the 3D Experience platform and the interoperable features of the CAPELLA platform to implement new engineering approaches aimed at strengthening the architectures selected by our clients for their future nuclear infrastructure projects. And lastly, in 2018 the Group entered into a partnership with the start-up Cosmo Tech to use a scenario simulation approach designed to map out a critical path in order to minimise the risk of not respecting a project’s deadlines. For data processing and the use of artificial intelligence, our in-depth knowledge of the nuclear, transport and life sciences sectors, allied with our desire and ability to mobilise the innovation ecosystem, has enabled us to demonstrate the added value of data science in a variety of areas: helping to prepare decommissioning operations, jointly developing audit systems with the CEA for the French railways operator (SNCF), and

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STAFFING

2018 key figures Revenue: €44.2 million EBITA: €1.8 million Employees: 865

The Staffing division – which operates through the MPH Group – provides specialist consultants to companies in the Oil & Gas and other industrial sectors, primarily in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. MPH is a well-established player in the field of technical and engineering recruitment services for the Oil & Gas, energy, aerospace, defence, telecommunications, railway, mining, metallurgy, environmental and nuclear industries. Since 2014 the MPH Group has been significantly affected by lower capital spending in the Oil & Gas sector – the world’s largest market for staffing – and is therefore rapidly building up its client portfolio in other sectors, grouped under the name “Industry”. In 2018, revenue generated by MPH in the Industry segment exceeded the figure for Oil & Gas for the first time, which helped stabilise the Staffing division’s overall revenue.

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EXPLEO GROUP (FORMERLY ASSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES)

Until the acquisition of SQS, the Expleo Group – in which Assystem SA holds a 38.2% interest (see Sections 1.1 above and 1.5 below) – was specialised in outsourced research and development for industrial clients operating in the Aerospace, Automotive, Transport (rail) and Industry sectors. The acquisition of SQS broadened the group’s field of expertise and diversified its client portfolio, particularly by adding the bank/insurance sector.

1.5 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

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ASSYSTEM’S ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

nuclear sector and infrastructure engineering. It is now made up of two divisions – the Energy & Infrastructure division (comprising nuclear, infrastructure, life sciences and project management activities) and the Staffing division. It also owns a 5% stake in Framatome and 38.2% of Expleo Group (formerly Assystem Technologies Groupe).

In late September 2017, Assystem transferred the control of its GPS business to Ardian. Following this divestment, the Assystem Group (“the Group”) refocused on its long-standing business activities in the

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