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ADVOCATING INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION

Chennai-based next-gen startup Jidoka Technologies is in the field of automated
cognitive inspection, delivering AI-powered defect detection systems for
mitigating pain points experienced by the manufacturing industry. Read on
to know about the founders’ path-breaking automated QC solutions and their
plans for a smart tomorrow…

Source: Jidoka Technologies

oming from a Manufac- rate of human inspection to detect continuity to manufacturers.
C turing background, Sekar defects is generally not more than Also, with increase in exports of
90 percent. Moreover, in high-
manufacturing goods, we foresee
Udayamurthy, Dr Krish-
na Iyengar and Vinodh Venkate- volume production lines where a huge demand for our solutions
san recognized a huge opportunity visual inspection is not deployed from the industry,” reveals Sekar
for automated QC solutions that 24x7, there remain backlogs that Udayamurthy, Co-founder & CEO,
would help to increase the efficien- create bottlenecks. Jidoka Technologies. This is the
cy of the manufacturing processes Being equipped with expertise and reason the startup, with a current
across industry verticals. the know-how in manufacturing turnover of `33 lakh has a tar-
The trio identified several pain and digital technologies, they then get for the ongoing fiscal year as
points faced by manufacturers identified a gap in the market to be `4 crore for the Indian market
on the shop floor with manually filled. Hence, in 2018 they came up and `3 crore as exports. Its clients
driven QC processes. This is most- with Jidoka Technologies, a ven- include Nexteer Automotive, Indo
POONAM PEDNEKAR ly in the area of visual quality ture to serve the fast-expanding Schottle, MIM – to name a few.
Chief Copy Editor
Magic Wand Media Inc checks done on the products man- manufacturing market with their
poonam.pednekar@ ufactured – either in-process or AI-Powered Defect Detection Sys-
magicwandmedia.in Automation with a
as final inspection before they are tems to consistently enable 100 human touch
shipped to the customer. Due to percent visual inspection. Jidoka QC solutions help to auto-
human subjectivity, decision- “Due to the pandemic, where mate the process of visual quality,
making varies based on the expe- manpower for manufacturing increasing consistency and accu-
rience and expertise in addition to has become scare, leveraging our racy at high speed by leveraging
fatigue setting in. The accuracy QC solutions is ensuring business AI (Artificial Intelligence) / ML

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