Research

Local retrieval, industrial trust

Conference paper from the FAPS research assistantship, published at DVS EBL 2026: retrieval that stays on local knowledge, scored with trustworthiness metrics rather than fluency alone.

Title
Development and Evaluation of a RAG System for Local Knowledge Retrieval with Integrated Trustworthiness Metrics in Industrial Environments
Venue
DVS EBL 2026 · Elektronische Baugruppen und Leiterplatten (EBL 2026)
Series
DVS-Berichte, Band 404 · February 2026 · ISBN 978-3-96144-320-8
DOI
10.53192/EBL20260344
Place
Institute FAPS, Nuremberg · FAU

Local knowledge retrieval for industrial settings, with trustworthiness and verification metrics in the evaluation loop — not retrieval quality alone.

The assistantship work used local embedding models, retrieval pipelines, prototype agent workflows, and reliability evaluation for industrial decision support.