Accenture and Mujin Establish Joint Venture to Bring AI and Robotics to the Manufacturing and Logistics Industries
24 Janeiro 2024 - 1:29PM
Business Wire
New joint venture will use AI and machine
learning to connect operational and management data and accelerate
data-driven management
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Mujin, a leader in intelligent
robotics for manufacturing, logistics and supply chain operations,
have established Accenture Alpha Automation, a joint venture for
the manufacturing and logistics industries. Accenture Alpha
Automation will help companies automate their management
infrastructure with data-driven solutions that seamlessly combine
data from manufacturing and logistics operations with management
data. The joint venture is owned 70% by Accenture and 30% by
Mujin.
Mujin provides intelligent automation solutions for industrial
sites. Its intelligent robotics platform enables companies to
deploy industrial robotics systems without the typical complex
advance settings and integration, including motion settings and
peripheral equipment, often required for other robotics
systems.
The joint venture will combine Mujin’s experience in industrial
robotics and automation with expertise from Accenture’s digital
engineering and manufacturing service, Industry X. Accenture Alpha
Automation’s solutions will integrate previously disconnected
operational data from manufacturing and logistics sites with
business management data, such as the company-wide supply chain
status, financial information and market information. Accenture and
Mujin will bring these solutions to clients to help them make
faster, better decisions and hyper-automate their manufacturing and
logistics processes.
Atsushi Egawa, who leads Accenture’s business in Japan, said:
“Manufacturing is the cornerstone of Japanese industry. Driving
sophistication and efficiency in manufacturing and the logistics
that support manufacturing is essential for Japan's further growth.
By teaming with Mujin, a leader in robotics technology, Accenture
will be able to help our clients take advantage of AI and robotics
to connect data throughout the manufacturing and logistics value
chain, further contributing to the data-driven transformation of
Japan’s important manufacturing and logistics industries.”
Mujin Inc. CEO, Issei Takino adds: “Our mission is to make
industrial robots intelligent and easy to use so they can improve
productivity and quality and help create new value in an aging
society. The new joint venture, which builds on our agreement with
Accenture, will utilize our robot automation technology to drive a
paradigm shift in the manufacturing and logistics industry and
bring new value to customers first in Japan, then around the
world.”
Accenture has also invested directly in Mujin through Accenture
Ventures, marking its first Project Spotlight investment in Asia.
Project Spotlight is an engagement and investment program focused
on companies that create or apply disruptive enterprise
technologies. The program offers extensive access to Accenture’s
domain expertise and its enterprise clients, helping technology
companies adapt their solutions to the enterprise market and scale
faster and more effectively.
About the Joint Venture Company name: Accenture Alpha
Automation Location: Sumitomo Fudosan Azabu Juban Building, 1-4-1
Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo Operation starts: January 15, 2024 Scope of
Operation:
- Consult and develop automation concepts in the manufacturing
and logistics industries
- System integration in the manufacturing and logistics
industries
- All businesses incidental to the preceding items
Shar: Accenture 70%, Mujin 30%
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global
professional services company that helps the world’s leading
businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital
core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and
enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and
scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with
approximately 743,000 people serving clients in more than 120
countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are
one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with
strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in
technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched
industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery
capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes
because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across
Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and
Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared
success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help
our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We
measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients,
each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at
www.accenture.com.
About Mujin Mujin, a robotics technology company,
develops Machine Intelligence for robot controllers that are
designed as a common platform for industrial and collaborative
robots specializing in logistics and other pick-and-place
applications. Launched in Tokyo in 2011 with offices in China,
Europe, and in the U.S., Mujin works with many of the world’s
largest companies to make material handling applications easier to
deploy, more accurate and less costly. The company’s flagship
product, the MujinController platform, uses Machine Intelligence
technology to give robotic systems real-time decision-making
ability that enables truly autonomous, reliable, and
production-capable robot applications. Visit us at
www.mujin-corp.com, or www.mujin.co.jp in Japan.
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