Konica Minolta releases Cutting-Edge New Product Lineup – FORXAI Visual Inspection and Autonomous Materials Handling in Vietnam

About the FORXAI VI (Visual Inspection), it combines imaging technology, which is Konica Minolta’s strength, with cutting-edge IoT and AI technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of society with customers and partners. The platform enables machine vision and machine learning users, whether you are an engineer, QC/QA inspector, data scientist, to easily collaborate & build an AI inspection or monitoring model without a single line of code. Konica Minolta has created solutions that enable contactless, remote, and real-time response in various types of business. In addition, Konica Minolta remains committed to contributing to the evolution of human society by offering products and solutions that help create a safe and secure environment around the world for working professionals and the general public in the new normal, thereby achieving sustainable business growth. FORXAI Vision Inspection is a cost-effective way to improve quality with following benefits:

• You do not need to be an AI-expert to build an AI model
• Reduce deployment time
• Reduce reliance on manpower – improving accuracy and reducing human errors.
• Increase product quality & reduce waste
• Upskill workers from manual inspectors to data-driven workers

Values Offered by FORXAI

FORXAI is an imaging IoT platform that combines imaging technology, which is based on the four core technologies of imaging, optics, materials, and micromachining that have been refined through many years of operation since Konica Minolta’s founding, with cutting-edge IoT and AI technologies. It achieves high-speed real-time AI processing by leveraging Konica Minolta’s proprietary image recognition technology in the fields of human behaviour analysis, inspection, measurement, and diagnosis.

The technology helps to prevent risks for humankind and society and create a safe and secure society by visualizing the invisible through contactless and remote monitoring, visualizing invisible risks, making predictions through data accumulation and analysis, and solving problems in the workflow at customers in various types of business.

FORXAI captures images and videos to enable immediate AI-based edge analysis processing on site and quick cloud-based processing. It develops and offers AI algorithms that customers need. AI algorithms may run in the cloud, but FORXAI also offers services that can be easily implemented in devices, such as on-site (edge) cameras.

In terms of Autonomous Materials Handling (AMH), it is a suite of cyber-physical systems specially designed for handling materials in various industrial applications, including manufacturing, warehousing, inter-logistics operations and more. By combining advanced software with automated robotics systems, the AMH enables cooperates in Vietnam and beyond to reshape and streamline their supply chain management processes. Our series of safe, cost-effective mobile robot solutions will undoubtedly deliver significant value and take your supply chain productivity to new heights. With automated mobile robots, Konica Minolta’s Autonomous Material Handling can help to streamline supply chain management across industries.

• AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robots): is able to identify, grab and move heavy objects from one location to another while avoiding obstacles in their path, thus eliminating the need for the manual moving of stocks or goods. The load capacity of AMR fleet is from 100kg to 1350kg.
• sLatch: sLatch LM200 is a solution that allows AMR to transport payload easily through narrow aisles and corridors.
• sWorkflow is a configurable platform that can flexibly execute different Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) automated workflow scenarios. Enables AMR to work seamlessly with other sensors and material handling equipment.
• sConnect is a one-stop analytics software that gives you actionable insights to improve the performance of all your autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).

Benefits of Autonomous Material Handling (AMH)

With automated mobile robots taking on mundane, laborious and even dangerous duties such as transporting pallets, your employees will be free to perform more high-value, strategic roles. Not only do they offer efficiency gains, but in times of uncertainty and workforce shortages, the mobile robots also ensure consistent, round-the-clock service for smooth supply chain operations.

Konica Minolta’s Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) can be used to address challenges faced by businesses through enabling automation in certain processes. It scales businesses growth by handling tasks that are repetitive or even those heavier workloads. With automation coming into play, it can help boost productivity while helping businesses stay competitive.

Konica Minolta provides Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) as part of its IoT solutions where the use of advanced sensor and AI to make decision on-the-fly when tasks are being carried. The AMR is ideal to lighten mundane delivery tasks in manufacturing, warehouse and healthcare operations. Intra-logistic in a robust manufacturing environment has to be agile and flexible, and that is where AMR comes in handy to cope with changing demands for a robust setup. The AMR can be connected to synchronize with existing conveyor systems and other inputs/output terminals of production lines.

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