ORIENTAL CHAIN MFG. CO.,LTD. has launched “X-AI,” a company-wide project aimed at circulating manufacturing-floor data and expertise through AI to strengthen the competitiveness of its existing businesses and create new businesses.
ORIENTAL CHAIN MFG. CO.,LTD. has launched “X-AI” as a company-wide initiative aimed at circulating manufacturing-floor data and expertise through AI to strengthen the competitiveness of its existing businesses and create new businesses. The company will combine its technologies and production expertise in power transmission equipment, including chains and sprockets, with AI, digital technologies, physical AI and robotics, implementing the initiative in phases as operations and management work together to conduct verification.
The company identifies preserving and advancing its technologies as a key value proposition for X-AI. It aims to link work videos of skilled employees, equipment data, quality results and the reasons behind decisions, and use them for training and work support, while feeding the resulting knowledge back into design and new product development to create highly customized products.
As a measure to achieve both quality and productivity, the company will analyze equipment operating conditions, processing conditions, inspection results and defect histories. It will seek a production system that detects early signs of quality fluctuations and equipment abnormalities, reduces defects, downtime and rework, and improves reproducibility.
To strengthen its ability to make proposals to customers and develop new businesses, the company has outlined a policy of speeding up responses and design proposals by considering design, specifications, applications, quality, quotations and customer requirements across functions. It will also consider the possibility of expanding into after-sales services, such as maintenance support and proposals based on predictive failure detection, and extending these services to other manufacturing industries.)