|
Hearken to this text  |
Accenture and Mujin have created a three way partnership to assist convey robotics and automation to the manufacturing and logistics industries. Referred to as Accenture Alpha Automation, the brand new enterprise is owned 70% by Accenture and 30% by Mujin.
The brand new firm will mix Mujin’s industrial robotics experience with Accenture’s digital engineering and manufacturing service, Trade X. Accenture Alpha Automation formally began working on Jan. 15, 2024. It’s situated in Tokyo and can provide companies akin to consulting, conceptualization and system integration.
“Manufacturing is the cornerstone of Japanese business. Driving sophistication and effectivity in manufacturing and the logistics that assist manufacturing is important for Japan’s additional development,” mentioned Atsushi Egawa, who leads Accenture’s enterprise in Japan. “By teaming with Mujin, a pacesetter in robotics expertise, Accenture will be capable to assist our purchasers make the most of AI and robotics to attach information all through the manufacturing and logistics worth chain, additional contributing to the data-driven transformation of Japan’s necessary manufacturing and logistics industries.”
Be taught from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and plenty of extra.
Accenture expands integration capabilities
Accenture has traditionally been a technique and consulting agency. However in latest it years it has acquired robotics integration corporations to increase its enterprise choices. In early 2021, for instance, Accenture acquired Pollux, a supplier of business robotics and automation. This was Accenture’s first acquisition of the type.
On the time of the deal, Pollux had applied greater than 1,000 tasks for manufacturing corporations, primarily in Brazil. It mentioned it has deployed 150-plus collaborative robots efficiently all through Brazil. Accenture mentioned most of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and meals corporations use expertise options from Pollux of their Brazil operations. And a excessive variety of automobiles made in Brazil use Pollux’s manufacturing options.
In 2022, Accenture acquired Eclipse Automation, a supplier of customized automation and robotics options for manufacturing purposes. Eclipse Automation creates automated manufacturing techniques for all times sciences, industrial tools, automotive, vitality and shopper items corporations.
Accenture partnership a win for Mujin
Japan is a robotics powerhouse. It had the fourth-highest robotic density of any nation in 2022, in line with the Worldwide Federation of Robotics. Robotic density measures the variety of operational industrial robots per 10,000 workers in a rustic.
There are plenty of corporations in Japan that Accenture might have chosen to accomplice with. This must be a giant increase of confidence for Mujin and additional legitimize its applied sciences.
“Our mission is to make industrial robots clever and straightforward to make use of to allow them to enhance productiveness and high quality and assist create new worth in an ageing society,” mentioned Mujin CEO Issei Takino. “The brand new three way partnership, which builds on our settlement with Accenture, will make the most of our robotic automation expertise to drive a paradigm shift within the manufacturing and logistics business and convey new worth to clients first in Japan, then all over the world.”
Mujin was based in 2011 and is predicated in Tokyo. Mujin mentioned it designed its controllers as a standard platform for industrial and collaborative robots for pick-and-place and different logistics purposes. The corporate mentioned its MujinController makes use of “machine intelligence” and “real-time digital twins” to allow robots to function autonomously and reliably in manufacturing.
Accenture has additionally invested in Mujin by means of Accenture Ventures. Mujin not too long ago finalized a Sequence C extension spherical of funding with an extra $18 million, bringing its whole Sequence C funding to $104 million. Mujin mentioned it plans to make use of the funding to advance the accessibility of its MujinController platform for robotics integrators and finish customers. Mujin has raised a complete of $178 million.
Mujin can be showcasing a brand new model of its TruckBot trailer unloading system at MODEX 2024.