New three way partnership will use AI and machine studying to attach operational and administration information and speed up data-driven administration
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Mujin, a frontrunner in clever robotics for manufacturing, logistics and provide chain operations, have established Accenture Alpha Automation, a three way partnership for the manufacturing and logistics industries. Accenture Alpha Automation will assist firms automate their administration infrastructure with data-driven options that seamlessly mix information from manufacturing and logistics operations with administration information. The three way partnership is owned 70% by Accenture and 30% by Mujin.
Mujin supplies clever automation options for industrial websites. Its clever robotics platform allows firms to deploy industrial robotics methods with out the everyday complicated advance settings and integration, together with movement settings and peripheral gear, usually required for different robotics methods.
The three way partnership will mix Mujin’s expertise in industrial robotics and automation with experience from Accenture’s digital engineering and manufacturing service, Business X. Accenture Alpha Automation’s options will combine beforehand disconnected operational information from manufacturing and logistics websites with enterprise administration information, such because the company-wide provide chain standing, monetary data and market data. Accenture and Mujin will deliver these options to purchasers to assist them make sooner, higher selections and hyper-automate their manufacturing and logistics processes.
Atsushi Egawa, who leads Accenture’s enterprise in Japan, mentioned: “Manufacturing is the cornerstone of Japanese business. Driving sophistication and effectivity in manufacturing and the logistics that help manufacturing is important for Japan’s additional progress. By teaming with Mujin, a frontrunner in robotics expertise, Accenture will have the ability to assist our purchasers benefit from AI and robotics to attach information all through the manufacturing and logistics worth chain, additional contributing to the data-driven transformation of Japan’s essential manufacturing and logistics industries.”
Mujin Inc. CEO, Issei Takino provides: “Our mission is to make industrial robots clever and simple to make use of to allow them to enhance productiveness and high quality and assist create new worth in an getting older society. The brand new three way partnership, which builds on our settlement with Accenture, will make the most of our robotic automation expertise to drive a paradigm shift within the manufacturing and logistics business and convey new worth to clients first in Japan, then all over the world.”
Accenture has additionally invested immediately in Mujin by means of Accenture Ventures, marking its first Mission Highlight funding in Asia. Mission Highlight is an engagement and funding program centered on firms that create or apply disruptive enterprise applied sciences. This system gives in depth entry to Accenture’s area experience and its enterprise purchasers, serving to expertise firms adapt their options to the enterprise market and scale sooner and extra successfully.
In regards to the Joint Enterprise Firm title: Accenture Alpha Automation Location: Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu Juban Constructing, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo Operation begins: January 15, 2024 Scope of Operation:
Seek the advice of and develop automation ideas within the manufacturing and logistics industries System integration within the manufacturing and logistics industries All companies incidental to the previous objects Share: Accenture 70%, Mujin 30%
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About Mujin Mujin, a robotics expertise firm, develops Machine Intelligence for robotic controllers which might be designed as a standard platform for industrial and collaborative robots specializing in logistics and different pick-and-place functions. Launched in Tokyo in 2011 with workplaces in China, Europe, and within the U.S., Mujin works with lots of the world’s largest firms to make materials dealing with functions simpler to deploy, extra correct and less expensive. The corporate’s flagship product, the MujinController platform, makes use of Machine Intelligence expertise to offer robotic methods real-time decision-making capacity that permits really autonomous, dependable, and production-capable robotic functions. Go to us at www.mujin-corp.com, or www.mujin.co.jp in Japan.