COGNIPLANT (as coordinator), AI-PROFICIENT, and iDev40 all focus on cognitive production, smart scheduling, and Industry 4.0 digitization.
AYESA IBERMATICA SA
Spanish IT integrator specializing in AI-driven manufacturing optimization, IoT monitoring platforms, and secure health data systems for EU industry.
Their core work
Ayesa Ibermatica is a large Spanish IT services and digital solutions company specializing in industrial digitization, IoT-based monitoring, and AI-driven production optimization. They build software platforms that connect factory-floor sensors, production scheduling systems, and data analytics into unified digital environments for manufacturing and process industries. They also develop secure health data exchange systems and e-health platforms, applying privacy-by-design principles to sensitive medical information.
What they specialise in
COGNIPLANT and AI-PROFICIENT combine IoT monitoring, big data management, and process mining for real-time factory intelligence.
SHiELD focused on privacy-by-design health data exchange, GATEKEEPER on smart living for health-risk populations, and ASTONISH on optical imaging for health.
iDev40 and HiPERFORM addressed integrated development environments and cyber-physical system architectures for electronics and power electronics.
AI-PROFICIENT explicitly targets trustworthy AI for production and connected worker interfaces, signaling a move toward human-centric industrial AI.
How they've shifted over time
In their early H2020 period (2016–2018), Ayesa Ibermatica split focus between health data security (SHiELD's consent management and privacy-by-design) and broad electronics industry digitization (iDev40's cyber-physical systems). From 2019 onward, they concentrated sharply on AI and IoT for manufacturing — coordinating COGNIPLANT for cognitive production plants and joining AI-PROFICIENT for predictive maintenance and smart scheduling. The health strand continued but narrowed to ambient-living applications (GATEKEEPER), while their industrial AI work became their defining capability.
They are consolidating around industrial AI, predictive maintenance, and cognitive production platforms — expect them to seek projects combining AI, IoT, and human-machine collaboration on the factory floor.
How they like to work
Ayesa Ibermatica operates primarily as a participant (6 of 7 projects), but their one coordination role — COGNIPLANT, also their largest grant at EUR 585K — shows they can lead when the topic aligns with their core strength. With 173 unique partners across 23 countries, they are well-networked and comfortable in large EU consortia rather than small focused teams. Their pattern suggests a reliable technology integration partner who brings IT platform capabilities to multi-partner projects.
They have collaborated with 173 distinct partners across 23 countries, indicating a broad European network built through participation in large-scale ECSEL and Innovation Action consortia. No single geographic cluster dominates — their reach spans Western, Northern, and Southern Europe.
What sets them apart
Ayesa Ibermatica bridges IT services and industrial AI in a way that few Spanish companies do at this scale — they are not a research lab but a product-oriented integrator who can deploy IoT platforms and AI analytics in real factory settings. Their dual experience in health data security and manufacturing digitization makes them unusually versatile for projects that cross sector boundaries. For consortium builders, they offer the rare combination of large-company delivery capacity with hands-on experience coordinating cognitive manufacturing projects.
Highlights from their portfolio
- COGNIPLANTTheir only coordinated project and largest grant (EUR 585K), focused on building a cognitive platform for 360° process industry optimization — represents their core identity.
- AI-PROFICIENTTheir second-largest grant (EUR 454K) and most recent project, combining trustworthy AI with proactive maintenance and connected worker concepts — marks their strategic direction.
- SHiELDDemonstrates their cross-sector reach into health data privacy and consent management, a capability distinct from their manufacturing focus.