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Easy operation even for AI beginners! A next-generation AI platform that realizes factory automation and quality control.

This is an AI platform designed for the manufacturing industry. By using this tool, you can achieve factory automation and labor reduction, while also easily managing quality control. It supports tasks such as visual inspections and analysis of worker behavior with AI, assisting operations on the shop floor. Why it’s good: It offers intuitive operation that can be used without specialized AI knowledge. It can learn from a small amount of data, making implementation easy. Additionally, it incorporates the following advanced technologies: - XAI (Explainable AI): Clarifies the reasoning behind AI decisions, allowing users to understand AI behavior. - QAAI (Quality Assurance AI): Generates data and verifies quality while considering environmental changes and disturbances, providing a stable AI model. Why explainability and robust AI are necessary: In manufacturing environments, it is crucial to understand how AI makes decisions. XAI enhances reliability by making the reasoning behind AI decisions explicit, allowing for safe operation. Furthermore, QAAI provides a robust model capable of responding to disturbances and environmental changes, ensuring stable performance on the shop floor. *For more details, please refer to the "Related Catalog" and contact us.*

• Image analysis software

Understanding the basis and risks of AI's judgments. Capable of learning from a small amount of data. Intuitive operation without the need for AI knowledge. Achieving continuous quality management that does not end with a PoC.

The practical "visual inspection AI" for manufacturing sites allows for high-precision learning and operation from a small amount of data with intuitive operation. It is a user-friendly and effective AI tool for site managers. Target Industries: Manufacturing (semiconductors, foundry, automotive, processed foods) / Chemicals / Pharmaceuticals Target Audience: - Production Management Department: Planning and managing production, improving production efficiency, reducing defective products - Production Technology Department: Optimizing production processes, introducing new technologies, maintaining equipment, utilizing automation technologies - Quality Control Department: Inspecting product quality, detecting and addressing defects, establishing quality assurance processes, confirming compliance with standards - DX Promotion Department: Promoting digital transformation, implementing AI, improving operations through data analysis - Companies that have already introduced image inspection machines and face challenges with over-detection Main Features: - Intuitive operation: No AI knowledge required. Easy from AI model creation to operation and quality management. - Learning from a small amount of data: Domain-specific data augmentation technology generates training data tailored to the on-site environment. - Quality management through visualization: XAI technology visualizes the reasoning behind AI decisions, making model improvement easier. - Quality verification for AI: QAAI enables quality verification of data and models, visualization, and management of change points.

• Visual Inspection Equipment

Attention: Improve work efficiency with the automation of image inspection! Easily and high-quality implement good product detection and defective product image generation with AI that provides understandable reasoning.

This is an AI solution designed for the manufacturing industry. It dramatically improves the automation of factory inspection tasks, enhances work efficiency, and increases the accuracy of quality control. It centralizes the generation and management of NG (non-good) data, streamlining the creation and management of AI training data. Additionally, it standardizes the skills required for inspection tasks, achieving skill-less operation. Key Features: - Intuitive operation: No need for AI expertise, easily operable by anyone. - Learning with a small amount of data: Efficient learning enables the quick construction of high-precision models. - Visualization of decision-making rationale: XAI technology clarifies the rationale behind AI decisions, enhancing reliability. - Generation and management of defective product data: Reduces the burden of data collection and optimizes quality control. Target Audience: - Production Management Department: Planning and managing production schedules, improving production efficiency, reducing defective products. - Producers: Optimizing production processes, introducing new technologies, maintaining equipment, utilizing automation technologies. - Quality Control Department: Conducting product quality inspections, detecting and addressing defective products, establishing quality assurance processes, confirming compliance with standards. - DX Promotion Department: Promoting digital transformation, implementing AI, improving operations through data analysis. - Companies that have already introduced image inspection machines and are facing issues with over-detection. *Please contact us for more information.

• Visual Inspection Equipment
• Image Processing Software
• Image analysis software

Significant efficiency improvements in manual processes with the help of AI! Analyzing work processes from videos of the manufacturing site.

What is Operator Analysis? Operator Analysis AI is an innovative tool that visualizes work on the manufacturing line in real-time and recorded footage, enabling efficient production processes. It can dramatically improve productivity and quality in manufacturing settings through accurate understanding of cycle times, optimization of process flows, improvement of work actions, optimization of personnel allocation, detection of work omissions, and estimation of work loads. Benefits of Work Analysis 1. Remarkable Efficiency - Eliminates waste through detailed analysis of work processes, significantly improving work efficiency. 2. Assurance of Top Quality - Reduces work omissions and errors through consistent procedures, dramatically enhancing product quality. 3. Improved Safety - Monitors work actions in real-time, allowing for early detection and correction of risky behaviors, thereby providing a safe working environment. 4. Cost Reduction - Reduces operational costs by eliminating unnecessary work and duplication, optimizing personnel and resources. Reasons to Choose Our Products We offer AI solutions specialized for the manufacturing industry, with extensive know-how and flexible customization options. We ensure transparency with XAI and QAAI technologies, achieving intuitive operability and rapid implementation. Our pre-validation minimizes risks and guarantees high implementation effectiveness.

• Image analysis software

● The production time for casting prototypes can be shortened! Since model production is not required, the time needed to create prototypes, which previously took about a month, can be significantly reduced. ● Model costs can be reduced! By directly producing sand molds from 3D data, there is no need for model production costs. If changes to the model are necessary, they can be addressed by modifying the 3D data. ● Similar products with different shapes and dimensions can be prototyped simultaneously! With one molding process, different products with similar shapes or varying dimensions can be molded at the same time. This allows for the verification of multiple types in a short period.

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The "Mechanical Stitch Method" by Nichinichisui Road Machinery Co., Ltd. is a new technique that allows for the repair of metal cracks without the application of heat. By using special bolts and reinforcement plates, cracks are physically removed, and repairs are made without causing any thermal impact to the base material. Repairs can be carried out in environments where open flames cannot be used. Since no heat is applied, the disassembly of equipment is minimized. ◎ For more details, please contact us. ◎ If a detailed technical explanation is needed, please contact us.