Nakanihon Furnace Works, where PSTC's IoT system is installed.

Nakanihon Furnace Works, where PSTC's IoT system is installed.

Panasonic Solution Technology (PSTC, Minato-ku, Tokyo, President Toshiyuki Kada, 0570-087-870) will commercialize embedded artificial intelligence (AI) for industrial equipment such as inspection machines by the end of fiscal 2019. The company will provide AI specialized for frequently used applications such as appearance inspection and machine condition analysis. This will simplify the process of users manually collecting data to train the AI. It will be widely proposed as AI that can be easily introduced by small and medium-sized companies. In this photo taken on December 7, 2017, at the Nakanihon Furnace Plant in Ama City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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