While it is difficult to travel overseas due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, companies can use video technology such as MR = mixed reality to superimpose virtual images on real landscapes, and perform remote business negotiations and factory inspections. The movement to do is spreading.
Beverage giant Suntory has introduced a system for conducting business negotiations with overseas companies using MR = mixed reality terminals.
In a business talk with a British company that makes raw materials for PET bottles, a local employee wore a goggle-type terminal to shoot a British production line and sent the video to a monitor in an office in Tokyo.
The monitor also displayed data to confirm the quality of the manufacturing line and whether there was any unevenness in the process, and the person in charge in Tokyo confirmed it.
Toshiya Kobayashi, director of "Suntory MONOZUKURI Expert," said, "It takes more time to confirm than a business trip. I want to use it even after the infection has subsided."
In addition, beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings conducted a demonstration experiment to remotely inspect factories in Italy using AR = augmented reality terminals, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries group company Mitsubishi Power has MR. We are considering the introduction of remote inspection using.