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NEC Provides a Predictive Anomaly Detection System Using AI at Suntory’s Natural Water Beer Plant in Kyoto

TOKYO, Feb 18, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today that it will provide Suntory Beer, Inc. with NEC Advanced Analytics-Invariant Analysis, an AI-based facility anomaly detection system. This system is planned to begin operation in late May at the can filling line at Suntory's Natural Water Beer Plant in Kyoto, Japan. The project is being promoted in collaboration with Suntory System Technology Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the Suntory Group's IT technologies, and activities are being conducted with an eye to expanding the project to each Suntory Group company.System Configuration OverviewFilling machineTraditionally, at production lines at manufacturing sites where mass production is undertaken, field personnel mainly use sensor data from equipment to monitor usage thresholds. However, there is a need for experience and know-how in order to understand the fine changes in individual data, and passing these skills along is a challenge.This new anomaly detection system is centered on NEC Advanced Analytics-Invariant Analysis, which uses Invariant Analysis Technology, part of NEC's leading-edge AI technology group, NEC the WISE. B...

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Space Vikings LLC is Disrupting the $500+ BILLION Beer Industry

Silkeborg, Denmark/ SEAPRWire / October 22, 2021 / – Space Vikings Token, a new Danish cryptocurrency, is set to disrupt the global beer market in 2022 by partnering with at least one brewery to release true Viking Ales. For the first time in history, a cryptocurrency and a brewery will join forces to not only distribute a token-inspired beer but reward their holders throughout it all. Space Vikings Token, relaunched on September 19th, 2021, with a reinvented and completely doxxed dev team and they have been checking off their roadmap one by one. The team has already burned 250 trillion of their 1 quadrillion tokens, relaunched the jackpot (which is now open to anyone holding over $50 worth of $SVT), relisted the token on Coin Market Cap, hired a marketing team, and officially became a limited liability company or LLC, on the 4th of October. The next steps for the team include completing a new crypto exchange platform allowing people to easily purchase Space Vikings Tokens $SVT with a bank card, a contract audit, confirming a partnership with a brewery to make Space Vikings Beer, and finally, rewarding the holders of each! Space Vikings Token plans to get a beer brewed that uses th...

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ThaiBev’s net profit for Q1 rises 0.5% to $375m

Beer and liquor giant Thai Beverage (ThaiBev) yesterday posted a net profit of 8.47 billion baht (S$375 million) for its first quarter ended Dec 31, up 0.5 per cent from the 8.42 billion baht it chalked up for the year-ago period. The company, which controls Fraser and Neave (F&N) and Frasers Property, has been enjoying a positive share price momentum after confirming its intention earlier this month to spin off and list its brewery unit BeerCo on the Singapore Exchange mainboard. BeerCo brands include Chang Beer and Bia Saigon. The growth in net profit was largely due to increased net profit from ThaiBev's spirits, beer and non-alcoholic beverages businesses, which more than offset lower contributions from its food businesses and stakes in F&N and Frasers Property. Group sales revenue for the quarter declined 5.1 per cent on-year to 71.79 billion baht due to lower sales revenue in the beer, non-alcoholic beverages and food businesses. This was partially mitigated by increased sales in the spirits business, which booked a 1 per cent year-on-year growth in sales revenue despite the resurgence of Covid-19 in Thailand. ThaiBev also said that the spirits segment remained resilient duri...