EU AI Act compliance
How Pulsar Solutions aligns with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation 2024/1689) to deliver responsible, transparent, and human-centric AI in manufacturing.
What is the EU AI Act?
The world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) is a landmark regulation that establishes harmonized rules for the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems across the European Union. It entered into force on August 1, 2024, with provisions being applied gradually through 2027.
The regulation takes a risk-based approach, categorizing AI systems into four risk levels and imposing requirements proportional to the risk each system poses to health, safety, and fundamental rights. This ensures that high-risk applications face stricter controls while lower-risk systems can innovate with lighter obligations.
At Pulsar Solutions, we view the AI Act not as a regulatory burden but as a framework that aligns with our core values of transparency, accountability, and human-centric design. Our AI-powered maintenance platform is built from the ground up with these principles in mind.
AI risk classification
The EU AI Act defines four risk categories for AI systems.
Unacceptable risk
AI systems that pose a clear threat to safety, livelihoods, or rights, such as social scoring by governments or real-time biometric surveillance. These are prohibited.
High risk
AI used in critical areas such as biometric identification, critical infrastructure management, employment, or law enforcement. Subject to strict requirements including conformity assessments.
Limited risk
AI systems with specific transparency obligations, such as chatbots or emotion recognition systems. Users must be informed they are interacting with AI.
Minimal / low risk
AI systems posing negligible risk, such as AI-powered content recommendations, spam filters, or industrial process optimization tools. Subject to voluntary codes of conduct.
Pulsar Solutions' AI maintenance platform is classified as a minimal/low-risk AI system. Our platform assists manufacturing teams with knowledge management, document processing, and maintenance optimization. It does not perform biometric identification, make autonomous decisions affecting fundamental rights, or operate in any high-risk category defined by Annex III of the AI Act. Despite this classification, we voluntarily adopt many practices required for higher-risk systems to ensure the highest standards of responsible AI.
Our compliance approach
Six pillars that guide how we build and deploy AI responsibly.
Transparency
Users are always informed when they interact with AI-generated content. Every AI output is clearly labeled, and we provide explanations of how our models reach their recommendations.
Human oversight
AI outputs serve as recommendations, never as autonomous decisions. Maintenance engineers and operators retain full control and can override, adjust, or reject any AI suggestion.
Accuracy and robustness
Our models are continuously validated against real-world manufacturing data. We implement rigorous testing, monitoring, and feedback loops to maintain high accuracy and prevent model drift.
Data governance
We follow strict data governance practices including data minimization, purpose limitation, and quality controls. Training data is carefully curated, documented, and regularly audited for bias.
Technical documentation
We maintain comprehensive technical documentation covering system architecture, training methodologies, performance metrics, known limitations, and intended use cases as required by Article 11.
Cybersecurity
Our AI systems are protected by enterprise-grade security measures including encryption, access controls, audit logging, and regular vulnerability assessments in line with Article 15.
GDPR and AI Act synergy
Data protection and AI regulation work hand in hand.
The EU AI Act complements the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation 2016/679). Together, they create a comprehensive framework for the responsible use of AI systems that process personal data. At Pulsar Solutions, we ensure full alignment with both regulations:
- Lawfulness of processing: All personal data processed by our AI systems has a valid legal basis under Article 6 GDPR, whether through contractual necessity, legitimate interest, or explicit consent.
- Data minimization: We collect and process only the data strictly necessary for the intended purpose. Our AI models are designed to work with anonymized or pseudonymized data wherever possible.
- Storage limitation: Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary. We enforce clear retention policies and automated deletion schedules.
- Data subject rights: Users can exercise their full GDPR rights including access, rectification, erasure, portability, and the right to object to automated processing under Article 22.
- Accountability: We maintain records of processing activities, conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) where required, and document all AI-related data processing operations.
For full details on how we handle personal data, see our privacy policy.
Ethical AI principles
Beyond compliance, we are committed to ethical AI development.
- Informed consent: We ensure that all stakeholders understand how AI is used in our platform, what data is processed, and how decisions are supported by AI recommendations.
- Fairness and non-discrimination: Our AI models are regularly tested for bias. We implement fairness metrics and ensure that AI outputs do not discriminate based on any protected characteristics.
- Human dignity: AI in our platform is designed to augment human expertise, not replace it. We prioritize solutions that empower workers and enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Environmental sustainability: We consider the environmental impact of our AI systems, optimizing computational resources and supporting sustainable manufacturing practices.
- Right to explanation: Any user affected by an AI-supported decision has the right to receive a clear, understandable explanation of the factors that influenced the output.
These principles reflect our commitment to the ethical guidelines established by the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI and the values enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Questions about AI compliance?
Our team is ready to discuss how Pulsar Solutions meets EU AI Act requirements and how we can help your organization navigate AI regulation in manufacturing.