Lantek, a major software company specialising in the sheet metal industry, and the Basque technology centre IKERLAN, based in Spain, are collaborating on the GALAXIA project, an R&D initiative aimed at developing an industrial agentic AI architecture.
This will be capable not only of analysing information but also of executing coordinated actions in real production environments, which could be beneficial to the sheet metal industry and other areas of manufacturing.
The GALAXIA project, supported by the Basque Government’s HAZITEK programme, is developing a multi-agent architecture which will enable organisations to retain control over their data, processes and knowledge.
The project marks progress toward technological sovereignty by promoting the local development of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities applied to industry. This approach reduces dependence on external technology platforms while ensuring control over critical data and processes.
Lantek acts as project coordinator, contributing its expertise in industrial software, advanced data exploitation and the development of intelligent assistants applied to production processes. IKERLAN participates as technological lead, bringing its broad multi-technology capabilities and experience in intelligent systems and applied industrial research.
GALAXIA represents a conceptual shift beyond traditional conversational AI models. It moves from systems that simply respond to queries toward architectures capable of acting, coordinating tasks and operating as a structured team within production processes.
The approach is based on agentic artificial intelligence, where specialised agents collaborate in a coordinated manner to solve complex problems. Each agent performs a specific function, whether analysis, planning, supervision or execution, and operates in synchronisation with the others to achieve a shared objective. This structure enables continuous data processing, real-time decision-making and a transition from a purely assistive role to the autonomous execution of complete tasks in industrial environments.
As Aizea Lojo, Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI Research Team at IKERLAN, explains, “Agentic AI works like a team of specialists coordinated to achieve a common goal.”
The platform’s design allows this coordinated-agent logic to be applied across multiple industrial sectors, facilitating scalability and technology transfer. In practice, this may translate into automatically generating a quotation upon receiving an email, triggering product replenishment in retail environments through computer vision, or assisting in the resolution of technical incidents without manual intervention in repetitive tasks.
Jose A. Lorenzo, Data Area Manager at Lantek, underlines the strategic focus of the project: “Artificial intelligence is not intended to replace operators. Its role is to take over automatable and analytical tasks so that professionals can focus on supervision, decision-making and continuous improvement.”
GALAXIA is being developed in compliance with the requirements established by the European Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act), which obliges companies to adapt their systems to new standards in security, transparency and governance. The multi-agent architecture designed by IKERLAN incorporates mechanisms that clearly define what each agent can do, in which context, and with what level of autonomy.
The consortium also includes companies from strategic sectors such as Eroski, Mondragon Assembly, Goizper, Xabet, Ubikare, Lis Data and Fagor Arrasate, which are validating the technology through specific use cases.
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