Purem by Eberspächer × Cambrion
Initial situation.
Purem by Eberspächer is a global leader in exhaust technology and acoustic solutions for the automotive industry. To maintain their innovation edge, their engineering and R&D teams must constantly monitor the global intellectual property landscape. However, innovation is global, and so is the data. The teams were faced with the processing of thousands of patent documents in varying formats and languages. Accessing this knowledge was a manual, slow, and disjointed process.
The document processing challenge.
Processing ~10,000 pages of technical patents annually created a massive bottleneck.
Relevance noise: Highly qualified engineers spent countless hours reading 40-page documents only to find they were irrelevant to their specific domain.
Language barriers: meaningful analysis of Chinese patents required expensive translation or specialized external support.
Data silos: Information remained trapped in PDFs, making it impossible to compare a German patent against a Chinese competitor’s filing in a single view.
The transformation goal.
Purem by Eberspächer needed a reliable feed of actionable data. The goals were:
The Cambrion solution.
Intelligent classification and abstraction.
Purem by Eberspächer deployed a dedicated agentic pipeline to act as an analyst that doesn't just extract text via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) but understands the engineering context.
Cambrion enables:
Unified schema: Whether the input is a Chinese PDF or a German scan, the output is a standardized JSON format.
Intelligent boolean classification: Agents automatically determine distinct flags (e.g., Relevant: True/False, Category: Acoustics/Thermal) based on complex engineering criteria.
Technical summarization: The AI generates concise, expert-level summaries, allowing engineers to digest even a 50-page patent in seconds.
Zero-shot adaptability: No model training was required to handle the complex layouts or foreign languages.
Quantifiable results.
10,000 pages processed: A massive backlog of global knowledge unlocked.
Strategic gain: The investment in the pipeline frees up high-value engineering time.
Accelerated R&D cycles: Relevant IP is identified in minutes, not weeks.
Global data harmonization: A 100% standardized database across all markets.
How Cambrion's pipelines work.
1
Configure
Define the data fields you need to extract.
2
Test
Test for consistent results across other documents.
3
Connect
Integrate into your existing workflow via API.
Why Cambrion.
More control than standard LLM or intelligent document processing (IDP) tools: A structured data schema enables repeatable, verifiable results.
One platform, many use cases: Test agentic pipelines on your most complex document use cases and add pipelines as your document processing needs evolve.
Model-agnostic by design: Use or switch between LLMs without being tied to a single provider’s tooling.
Built for internal AI competence: Create a reusable foundation for future document automation instead of adding yet another point solution.
Automate your document processing.
Cambrion eliminates the bottlenecks in document-based workflows.