Alithya

Overview

About Alithya

Alithya is a leader in strategy and digital transformation in North America. Founded in 1992, the company can count on more than 3,000 professionals in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Alithya's integrated offering is based on four pillars of expertise: strategy services, application services, enterprise cloud solutions, and data and analytics. Alithya deploys solutions, services, and skill sets to craft tools tailored to its clients' unique business needs in the energy, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation and logistics, professional services, healthcare, and government sectors.

Vision, Collaboration, and Commitment

At Alithya we are proud of our 40-year history of delivering solutions and services for the nuclear industry to produce safe, clean, and reliable energy for the people of Canada.  As responsible professionals in the energy industry, we owe it to future generations within Canada, and the rest of the world, to continue to deliver clean energy for a low-carbon future.  We also need to bend the cost curve of nuclear power such that all Canadians can have access to affordable electricity.

We believe that Small Modular Reactor technology is part of the solution to produce clean, affordable power, and is the future of nuclear in Canada.  As such, we are committed to offering our knowledge, expertise, and advocacy to the SMR community, and fully endorse the Statement of Principles in Canada’s SMR Action Plan.

Our nuclear sector and technology expertise spans from the control room to the boardroom. At the plant level, we have expertise designing and deploying systems such as control/Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and simulators.  At the executive level, we excel at enterprise application deployments such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and cloud.  We focus on Operational Technology-Information Technology (OT-IT) convergence, connecting plant and business systems together by leveraging our capabilities in IoT, AI and analytics, digital twins, and Enterprise Performance Management.  We also have a major practice in cyber security – ensuring security and regulatory compliance for our customers digital assets.  Our work in nuclear covers the design and development of safety-critical shutdown systems, reactor control systems, monitoring and Human Machine Interface (HMI)/SCADA systems, plant data historians, simulators, and IT solutions for large enterprise utility customers.

Being a Canadian Standards Association (CSA) N299.1 and CSA N286.7 compliant company, our unique mix of computer system, software design, and integration experience, regulatory and cyber security compliance expertise, and extensive domain knowledge positions Alithya well to support the SMR community with respect to meeting regulatory commitments, but also ensuring safe and reliable operations and maintenance of new facilities.  Our staff have contributed to the development of several industry standards in the areas of safety-critical software engineering, software qualification, and cyber security.

Investing in new technology, while driving down costs will require innovative thinking and technologies, and Alithya understands that with new technology comes both new opportunities and challenges.  Our focus on digital technology strategy and implementation puts us at the forefront of innovation and digital transformation.  We have built innovative products to capitalize on new opportunities and overcome challenges using technologies such as, Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), analytics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the cloud while ensuring that complex data and cyber security needs are met.  

Alithya also has decades of experience collaborating with utilities, industry organizations, academia, other vendors, and the community to achieve common goals.  We look forward to uniting as part of “Team Canada” to position us as leaders in the SMR market.

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