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Industry AlphaではAMR(自律走行ロボット)や最適化アルゴリズムなどのソリューションを活用し、製造業・物流業のスマート化に貢献してまいりました。日本各地で労働人口の減少が懸念される中、工場・倉庫の自動化のニーズは日に日に高まっております。山梨県でも基幹産業である製造業の労働力確保が将来的に不安視されており、今回のIndustry Alphaと山梨県のマッチングに至りました。

山梨県では最先端技術やサービスを有するスターアップ企業等に伴走し、山梨県全域を対象にした実証実験を全面的にサポートする「TRY!YAMANASHI!実証実験サポート事業」を実施しており、本年が第６期目となります。今回、応募総数３９社の中からIndustry Alphaを含めた４社が採択され、山梨県をテストベッドとした実証実験を行うこととなりました。

今回のIndustry Alphaの実証実験は「AMR(自律走行ロボット)×画像認識」がテーマとなります。第三者視点のカメラ(天井の防犯カメラなど)を活用し、壁などに遮られAMRからは死角になるようなエリアの人の往来情報や、搬送対象物となる荷物の位置や姿勢情報を取得することで、より柔軟かつ効率的なAMRの運用を実現します。死角からの人の飛び出しを予知したAMRの事前の減速や、無作為に放置されている荷物へのAMRの自動ドッキングといったオペレーションを実際の製造・物流現場において実証いたします。

Industry Alpha×地方自治体

Industry Alphaは本件に限らず、様々な文脈で地方自治体との連携を強化しております。東京都の次世代通信技術活用型スタートアップ支援事業に採択され、「工場・倉庫のDX×ローカル5G」といった取り組みを行っている他、愛知県主催のAICHI MATCHINGにおいても愛知県企業とのマッチングを通じて事業共創を行っております。

工場・倉庫の更なる自動化に貢献するため、当社は引き続き積極的に地方自治体と連携してまいります。地方自治体の、地場企業とのネットワークや、行政視点での困りごとに関する知見といったリソースを活用させていただき、労働人口不足に悩む自治体の製造・物流業の自動化に貢献し続けます。

[Industry Alpha x Yamanashi Prefecture] Industry Alpha has been selected for Yamanashi Prefecture’s TRY!YAMANASHI! Demonstration Experiment Support Project and is promoting DX in factories and warehouses in Yamanashi Prefecture

2024年6月18日2025年1月21日

Industry Alpha, which contributes to the automation of factories and warehouses, has been selected for a subsidized project by Yamanashi Prefecture and is accelerating its business in the prefecture.

Industry Alpha Inc. (Head office: Itabashi-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takumi Watanabe; hereinafter referred to as “Industry Alpha”), which develops and introduces low-floor AMRs and other initiatives to make factories and warehouses smarter, has been selected for the “6th TRY! YAMANASHI! Demonstration Experiment Support Project” conducted by Yamanashi Prefecture (Governor: Kotaro Nagasaki), which will provide full support for a demonstration experiment covering the entire Yamanashi prefecture, and will contribute to further automation in Yamanashi prefecture’s manufacturing and logistics industries.

Details of the initiative

Industry Alpha has been contributing to the smartification of the manufacturing and logistics industries by utilizing solutions such as AMR (autonomous mobile robots) and optimization algorithms. As concerns grow over the decline in the working population across Japan, the need for automation in factories and warehouses is growing day by day. In Yamanashi Prefecture, there are concerns about the future of securing labor for the manufacturing industry, which is a core industry, and this led to the matching of Industry Alpha with Yamanashi Prefecture.

Yamanashi Prefecture is running the “TRY! YAMANASHI! Demonstration Experiment Support Project,” which accompanies start-up companies with cutting-edge technologies and services and provides full support for demonstration experiments throughout the prefecture, and this year marks the sixth year of the project. This time, four companies, including Industry Alpha, were selected from a total of 39 applicants, and will conduct demonstration experiments in Yamanashi Prefecture as a test bed.

The theme of this Industry Alpha demonstration experiment is “AMR (autonomous mobile robot) x image recognition.” By utilizing a third-party camera (such as a security camera mounted on the ceiling), information on people coming and going in areas that are blocked by walls and other obstacles and the position and posture information of the cargo to be transported will be obtained, enabling more flexible and efficient operation of AMRs. Operations such as the AMR slowing down in advance when it predicts a person coming out of a blind spot, and the AMR automatically docking with cargo that has been left randomly will be demonstrated at actual manufacturing and logistics sites.

Industry Alpha×Local government

Industry Alpha is strengthening collaboration with local governments in various contexts, including this project. The company has been selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s startup support program that utilizes next-generation communications technology, and is working on initiatives such as “Factory and warehouse digital transformation x local 5G.” It is also working on business co-creation through matching with Aichi Prefecture companies in AICHI MATCHING, an event hosted by Aichi Prefecture.

We will continue to actively cooperate with local governments to contribute to further automation of factories and warehouses. We will continue to contribute to the automation of manufacturing and logistics industries in local governments that are suffering from labor shortages by utilizing resources such as the local government’s network with local companies and knowledge of problems from the administrative perspective.

《Press release regarding collaboration with Tokyo Metropolitan Government》

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000028.000107270.html

《Article about collaboration with Aichi Prefecture》

https://tomoruba.eiicon.net/articles/4525

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