Macnica (hereinafter President to as Macnica), a total service/solution provider in semiconductors, networks Kazumasa Hara cybersecurity, and AI/IoT (94 million yen) has joined Siemens, one of the world's largest technology companies in the industrial field, as a gold partner in its "MindSphere® Partner Program," and is working on a new initiative aimed at realizing smart factories in the manufacturing industry in Japan and abroad. We are pleased to announce that we will be providing new services.

In 2011, the German government announced Industry 4.0 at Hannover Messe, a smart factory for mass customization that improves productivity and stabilizes quality at manufacturing sites, mainly in Europe, and performs optimal production according to changes in the market and environment. is spreading. However, the manufacturing industry in Japan lacks technology related to AI and IoT such as data collection and analysis, and know-how such as formulating introduction plans, and the realization of smart factories is lagging behind other regions. This is the current situation.

Under these circumstances, Macnica has been providing solutions that realize the transformation of factories into smart factories using AI/IoT, and by participating in the "MindSphere Partner Program", we will add an open IoT operating system to our services. It is now possible to incorporate MindSphere ^*1 and provide services in the cloud. In addition to providing MindSphere and Gateway products for companies aiming to realize smart factories in the manufacturing industry, Macnica offers new services that utilize products developed by Macnica for the manufacturing industry and applications provided by Siemens. We will start offering.

This service includes applications such as smart factory implementation planning, data collection, analysis, and visualization from equipment, people, and things, generation of algorithms such as AI and machine learning, system construction and operation, and system maintenance. It has become. By introducing this service, we will be able to comprehensively resolve issues related to equipment and processes, such as improving yield by analyzing the causes of defects on manufacturing lines, predictive maintenance such as detecting equipment abnormalities and predicting failures and deterioration, and visual inspection using AI. This makes it possible to improve productivity, stabilize quality, and optimize the entire factory.
On the other hand, we provide MindSphere as a standalone platform to industrial equipment manufacturers, mainly machine tools. This will enable industrial equipment manufacturers to build and provide unique services based on this platform for the manufacturing industry. Macnica will support this by providing its original product edge computer SENSPIDER ^*2 and AI algorithms.

With a track record of over 200 AI and IoT projects, Macnica will strongly promote the realization of smart factories for manufacturers both in Japan and overseas who are aiming to create smart factories by working with consultants, engineers, and data scientists who are familiar with manufacturing sites and utilizing Siemens' manufacturing technology, which boasts an overwhelming share of the global market.

Florian Beil, Head of Sales MindSphere, Siemens DI Software: “We are pleased to have Macnica participate in the MindSphere Partner Program and sign a reseller agreement with us. We look forward to working with Macnica to provide our customers with comprehensive solutions to realize smart factories and help strengthen the competitiveness of our manufacturing customers.” I look forward to going.”

*1: A cloud-based open IoT operating system developed by Siemens. It connects products, plants, systems, and machines, enabling the utilization and advanced analytics of the vast amounts of data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT).
*2: Sensor gateway & edge computing terminal
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Macnica x Siemens Smart Factory Service

Macnica will be exhibiting at the Smart Factory EXPO exhibition to be held at Port Messe Nagoya from September 18th to 20th, and the contents of this press release will also be on display. Please stop by the Company booth.

○Information about the 2nd Smart Factory EXPO Macnica booth
Venue: Port Messe Nagoya
Booth location: 3rd Exhibition Hall, Booth No. 1-77

 

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