Koiwai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Representative Board Director: Toyomi Koiwai, hereinafter referred to as Koiwai) manufactures and sells prototype and mass-produced castings, metal powder laminated parts, and total services and solutions in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT.・Provider Macnica (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kazumasa Hara, hereinafter referred to as Macnica) is the first step toward promoting DX in the foundry industry in the Kanagawa Prefecture DX Project Promotion Project. Using the AI system, we have achieved significant efficiency in the process of creating estimates, which is the gateway to customer contact.

The foundry industry, like the Japanese industry as a whole, is facing a shortage of young human resources. In order to pass on the advanced technology that has been cultivated over many years in the field, there has long been a need to break away from old-fashioned analog methods and create a comfortable working environment. What was needed was a DX project that would transform the business model by promoting digitization on-site.
Particularly in prototyping projects before mass production begins, the challenge is to quickly calculate estimated costs based on past knowledge and past results in order to respond to customer requests. Therefore, by utilizing the similar search library of "Re:Alize* ¹", an AI social implementation service provided by Macnica 's AI expert organization ARIH, it is now possible to extract optimal 3D data from a huge amount of past data. It has become possible to significantly shorten the process time.

Furthermore, in the casting industry, issues related to the SDGs, such as reducing the environmental impact, have recently become apparent. The casting industry requires a huge amount of energy to handle raw materials such as metals. Koiwai and Macnica will further accelerate the use of AI and digital control in the process from upstream to the end user, and consider linking this to efforts to reduce the environmental impact.

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