TOKYO – Starting in October in Japan, Fujitsu will offer consulting for the use of artificial intelligence technology at design and manufacturing sites.

The service will use the company's Monozukuri AI Framework to systematize functions for incorporating AI into manufacturing locations. The framework is made up of learning databases, AI processing engines, and security authentication servers.

The consulting service will support the implementation of AI technology in customer manufacturing locations by building a learning database for each of the variety of task processes and products in design and production locations, using the framework to enable increased AI precision through continuous learning, and also by screening the collected data in response to customer needs and characteristics of their products.

The service is said to contribute to customer manufacturing development, for example, by shortening design studies for printed circuit boards or enabling improved efficiency in setting up production lines, and by providing a system that continuously learns.

To make use of AI, it is necessary to extract knowledge and experience from the big data acquired from previous assets and locations, collect it in learning databases, and create a model with it. In manufacturing locations, however, there are all sorts of products and a variety of business processes, such as specification studies, design, validation, and manufacturing, and because standardized models that can provide the high-accuracy predictions and decision processing demanded for each of these cases do not exist, it is necessary to build appropriate models each time, Fujitsu said in announcing the program.