20% increase in productivity
WHEN YOU LOOK AT INDUSTRIAL NEWSPAPERS, YOU WILL SEE ARTICLES ON AUTOMATION USING AI AND ROBOTS. IN MOST OF THOSE ARTICLES, "INVESTMENT AMOUNT IS 0 YEN" AND "PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT BY 0%" ARE WRITTEN. SUPPOSE THAT "20% PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT WITH 20 MILLION YEN INVESTMENT" IS [...].
Recruitment activities begin
We have not been actively recruiting up to now, but will begin recruiting through job sites and other means to continue our business. We will take time to train the "next" employees while we are still healthy. The company is small and cannot do big jobs, but I [...].
We look forward to working with you in 2021 and in the New Year!
I am sorry for the delay in wishing you a Happy New Year. While the Corona disaster has increased uncertainty, we are fortunate to be on track to achieve a new record high. We have always had more than 80% of our customers as repeat customers, and our sales activities have been restricted by restrictions on outings and travel [...].
Visual inspection in Python
We have now added the ability to run Python scripts on our FIS-100. Python is a programming language often used in open source AI. The story started when one of our customers said to us, "We are going to develop our own open-source A [...]".
AI ECONOMIC IMPACT 34 TRILLION YEN
AN ARTICLE IN THE NIKKEI ON OCTOBER 22, 2020, WAS TITLED THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, TRADE AND INDUSTRY (METI) HAS COMPILED AN ESTIMATE THAT IF THE INTRODUCTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ADVANCES, IT WILL HAVE AN ECONOMIC EFFECT OF 34 TRILLION YEN BY 2025. THE ARTICLE SAID. AMONG THEM, THE EFFECT OF REPLACING AI [...].
Sustainable business model
It has been 21 years since I started my business, and although the world is changing rapidly, the fundamentals of business remain the same. How much profit can we make from our work? Not only do we want to satisfy our customers, but we also want to make money (value-added) from our work.
Let machines do what machines can do.
The founder of the first company I worked for, Mr. Kazuma Tateishi, had a management philosophy: "Leave to machines what machines can do; humans should enjoy more creative work. Nearly 30 years have passed since then, and there are still many [...].
Limitations of Human Sea Tactics
I thought to myself, "If we can get people to do visual inspections, there is no need to go to the trouble of automating them. I myself thought that there was no need to go to the trouble of automating the process. I think the same was probably true at many manufacturing sites. In fact, I have seen sites where more than 30% of the employees are inspectors. That is where this co [...].
Inspection of automotive exterior parts
We have often received inquiries about inspecting automobile exterior parts in the past. However, the inspection involves curved surfaces and multiple surfaces, making the setup quite cumbersome. The lighting conditions under which defects can be seen are almost exclusively limited to "the side of the illumination reflection. High gloss. [...].
DeepLearning at HALCON
We are struggling with the deep learning feature of the latest HALCON version 18.11. One of our users told us, "I tried labeling with the HALCON Deep Learning Tool, but I don't know what to do after that.