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...
