Developer's Aside
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.

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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 [...].

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Developer's Aside
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 [...].

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Developer's Aside
THOUGHTS ON THE "AI BUSINESS

THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE IN A RACE TO ACQUIRE "AI HUMAN RESOURCES"... THE "VISUAL INSPECTION AUTOMATION BUSINESS" THAT I AM ENGAGED IN AND MANY "AI BUSINESSES" ARE VERY SIMILAR (OR PERHAPS VISUAL INSPECTION AUTOMATION IS A KIND OF AI?). THE QUESTION WE ARE INTO [...].

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Developer's Aside
New Year's Greetings

Thank you for your continued support this year. Since around the end of last year, I have been working on several new elemental technologies. I will introduce them to you in due course, but I feel that I have "all the weapons" I need to automate visual inspections. I do not think it is technically "impossible" [...].

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Developer's Aside
WIN-win

It is often said that it is a win-win relationship... WIN-WIN where the buyer and seller are equal WIN-WIN where the seller is more dominant WIN-WIN where the buyer is more dominant WIN-WIN where the downstream buyer has a greater WIN, and the upstream seller [...].

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Developer's Aside
What we want to tell you at the end of the seminar

The last one at the seminar on the 14th is the one I most want to tell you about. I added it because I thought it would be a rare opportunity to have the time of perhaps 300-400 people involved in the field of manufacturing. In my involvement in this work, I have seen defective products from various industries [...].

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Developer's Aside
Ready to go

The handouts for the seminar on the 14th have been sent out for printing. Now we can take a break. After all, 415 people have pre-registered. I am happy to hear that, but standing room only is inevitable, and it is expected to be quite crowded. (I heard that the venue has been expanded since the last [...])

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I don't know if I should be happy about this...

We have received the current number of registrations for your seminar at the Sensing in Imaging Expo. --- We are pleased to inform you of the number of registrations for your company's seminar at the Image Sensing Expo 2019 until 23:59 on Monday, May 27, 2019. The materials will be distributed [...].

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Developer's Aside
2019 Image Sensing Expo Seminar

WE WILL BE CONDUCTING A SEMINAR AT THE IMAGE SENSING EXPO (PACIFICO YOKOHAMA) ON 2019.6.14. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ATTENDING OUR SEMINAR LAST YEAR. THIS YEAR, WE WILL HAVE "POPULAR AI" AND "KEYNOTE SPEECH" IN THE SAME TIME SLOT, AND WE WILL HAVE A "HUNCH [...]...

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