Smart Factories: Giving Form to Digital Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry

CPS: A Key Technology for Realizing Autonomous Smart Factories

A cyber-physical system (CPS), which is the core information system of future factories aiming to be smart factories, is built by concentrating together IoT, AI, big data analysis, industrial networks, and other advanced information technologies. It is an information system occupying the core in the implementation of digital transformation (DX) in the manufacturing industry that draws a clear distinction with mere process automation by conventional factory automation (FA).

• Smart Factory
• DX
• IoT
• AI
• Solution

Electronic Technology Supporting the Evolution of “Next Tech”

“Agri-Tech” Brings Out the Potential of Land and Crops

This article explains Agri-Tech, which enables the addressing of problems faced by agriculture and the creation of agricultural businesses with new value by utilizing IoT, AI, robotics, biotechnology, etc. This is a movement that will transform agriculture, where experience and skills influence results, into a rational data-driven industry.

• Agriculture
• AI
• IoT
• Robot

Electronic Technology Supporting the Evolution of “Next Tech”

MedTech Provides Optimal Medical Treatment and Care Tailored to Each and Every One of Us

This article provides an overview of MedTech, which makes use of genetic analysis, AI, IoT/wearables, and more to provide early diagnosis/treatment and personalized medicine. It is a movement of medical technology reform that modernizes traditional medical treatment methods.

• Medical
• AI
• IoT

Electronic Technology Supporting the Evolution of “Next Tech”

Space Tech: Transforming Space from an Object of Curiosity to a Place of Business

We give an explanation here about space tech – technology that uses space to bring innovation to all industries and businesses. Space tech is a movement in technological development that will bring new value to people's everyday lives, work, and social activities.

• AI
• IoT
• Miniaturization

Electronic Technology Supporting the Evolution of “Next Tech”

“Food Tech” Solves Food Problems and Creates New Value

We will explain food tech, which is innovating the way we think about “food,” which is familiar to all of us. This is a high-profile movement that utilizes ICT and biotechnology to solve social problems and respond to dietary diversification.

• AI
• IoT
• SDGs

Supporting the Realization of a Super-Smart Society: Murata Continues to Respond to the Demands of the Times

The super-smart society that has been the aim of Society 5.0 is coming. A super-smart society that materializes mega trends such as digital transformation (DX) and decarbonization will use greater quantities of more advanced electronic components than ever before to make full use of the latest communication and information processing technologies such as IoT, AI, and 5G. Norio Nakajima, President of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which has a responsibility to supply electronic components required by the times, talks about the company’s future role and the ways in which Murata will contribute to the creation of a sustainable society.

• Smart City
• DX
• AI
• IoT
• 5G
• SDGs
• Co-Creation

Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI

Technology to quantify an individual's mental state

Sensors and AI can now be used to numerically measure our feelings, including happiness, satisfaction, and motivation. In this section, we introduce some new possibilities made possible through understanding human feelings.

• Sensors
• AI
• Happy technology
• DX

Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI

Expanding the scope of remote work using VR/AR and 5G technologies

VR/AR technology fuses the virtual with the actual, while 5G technology allows for massive amounts of data to be transmitted. Advances continue to be made in both areas. In this section, we introduce some examples of how these technologies are expanding the scope of remote work.

• Sensors
• AI
• IoT
• VR/AR
• Work style reform
• 5G
• Solution

Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI

Using digital technology to see how experts work and build systems

Wearable sensors and image recognition technology now make it possible to see exactly how experts work. In this section, we introduce some examples of how expert skills can be passed on to the next generation, and how work can be automated.

• Sensors
• AI
• IoT
• Smart Factory
• Solution

Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI

Sensors that watch over and care for people

We can now use sensors and AI to determine a person's state of health or to objectively detect the mood of a situation. In this section, we introduce some examples of how these technologies can be used to improve the quality of our lives and work.

• Sensors
• AI
• IoT
• Smart City
• Solution