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Accenture and Mujin have created a three way partnership to assist carry 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 supply companies reminiscent of 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 progress,” stated 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 shoppers reap the benefits of AI and robotics to attach knowledge all through the manufacturing and logistics worth chain, additional contributing to the data-driven transformation of Japan’s vital manufacturing and logistics industries.”
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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 develop 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 sort.
On the time of the deal, Pollux had applied greater than 1,000 tasks for manufacturing corporations, primarily in Brazil. It stated it has deployed 150-plus collaborative robots efficiently all through Brazil. Accenture stated most of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and meals corporations use expertise options from Pollux of their Brazil operations. And a excessive variety of autos made in Brazil use Pollux’s manufacturing options.
In 2022, Accenture acquired Eclipse Automation, a supplier of customized automation and robotics options for manufacturing functions. Eclipse Automation creates automated manufacturing programs for all times sciences, industrial gear, 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 accordance with the Worldwide Federation of Robotics. Robotic density measures the variety of operational industrial robots per 10,000 staff in a rustic.
There are a number of corporations in Japan that Accenture may have chosen to companion with. This ought to be an enormous enhance of confidence for Mujin and additional legitimize its applied sciences.
“Our mission is to make industrial robots clever and simple to make use of to allow them to enhance productiveness and high quality and assist create new worth in an growing older society,” stated 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 produce new worth to clients first in Japan, then world wide.”
Mujin was based in 2011 and is predicated in Tokyo. Mujin stated it designed its controllers as a standard platform for industrial and collaborative robots for pick-and-place and different logistics functions. The corporate stated 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 via Accenture Ventures. Mujin just lately finalized a Sequence C extension spherical of funding with an further $18 million, bringing its whole Sequence C funding to $104 million. Mujin stated 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 might be showcasing a brand new model of its TruckBot trailer unloading system at MODEX 2024.
