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(Machine Learning), Deep Learn- leak) systems to identify cracks in
ing and Analytics. Jidoka stands castings. Other hardware designs
for a principle that advocates can be specially built depending
‘intelligent automation’ or ‘auto- on the component requirement.
mation with a human touch’ in Solutions that integrate with robot
Japanese. Currently operating in is also in progress,” he reveals.
India, the startup serves industry The software platform Kompass
verticals including Automobile, marries real-time decision-making
Pharma, General Manufacturing, Source: Jidoka Technologies to the state-of-the-art AI to create
Electronics and Printing. an end-to-end system for visual
“We leverage Deep Learning, a defect system. The software pro-
subset of Machine Learning in “We were self-funded while vides a turnkey solution that fits
AI, which teaches machines to building the core of our product seamlessly into the production
learn by example. This technol- and getting our first customer. We line of different manufacturers.
ogy can recognize features that have recently received a seed The system uses a digital twin cre-
funding of $340,000 from a
distinguish trends and make leading technology entrepreneur ated by the hardware and maps it
intelligent predictions and de- who is our mentor too and Jidoka to the AI to deliver up to 1200 deci-
cisions. It scales the intelligence is currently valued at $3 million.” sions per minute.
Jidoka of human visual inspection with Sekar Udayamurthy “We are an E2E solution provider
stands for Co-founder & CEO
a princi- the reliability, consistency and Jidoka Technologies with proven implementation ex-
ple that speed of a computerized system,” perience and not merely a soft-
advocates explains Udayamurthy. The hardware platform has three ware platform,” he states.
‘intelligent “We use a combination of Super- trademarked structural shells When asked how different are
automation’ vised and Unsupervised Comput- that the company uses to custom- the company’s solutions from
or ‘automa-
tion with er Vision AI algorithms. In the low ize the right solution for different others available in the mar-
a human data regime, we use our patented products: Huron for large-volume ket and their tangible benefits,
touch’ in Anomaly detection algorithm complex products; Tigris for flat Udayamurthy states that their
Japanese. along with clustering,” he adds. and lightweight products; and customers will be able to recover
Currently Image Data augmentation aids Miyake for manual load and un- their RoI on what they have in-
operating in
India, the Supervised AI algorithms like load with selective checking. vested in the Jidoka system in as
startup Image Classification, Object De- “We also integrate our software less as 12-15 months.
serves Auto- tection and with regression algo- with a third-party radiography He enlists the tangible benefits
mobile, rithms, model testing, monitor- equipment to identify defects in along with the estimation of cost
Pharma, ing and MLOps are done. X-ray images, Bubble Test (wet savings per year:
General
Manufac- “We deliver customized dash-
turing, boards for the Management,
Electronics Quality Assurance, Supervisors
and Printing and Operators so that the right
industries. information is presented to the
right people at the right time. Us-
ers can analyze data on various
products, types of defects, sever-
ity, occurrence and generate re-
ports,” he informs further.

How Jidoka solutions
matter
Jidoka’s state-of-the-art auto-
mated cognitive QC solutions
combine the power of AI with
automation and computer vision
in defect detection, delivering 98
percent or higher accuracy in the
QC process, claims Udayamurthy. Source: Jidoka Technologies
The QC solution has both hard-
ware and software components.

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