JapanManufacturing2022 – ongoingKyocera
VAAKEYE video analysis for factory safety
Kyocera used AI alerts to review safety incidents across 500 factory cameras
Problem
Kyocera needed to detect unsafe behavior before it caused accidents. Reviewing surveillance footage continuously imposed an impractical workload, so cameras mainly supported investigations after events.
Approach
Kyocera deployed VAAKEYE's pretrained video-analysis models at major factories after a proof of concept. Staff reviewed detection alerts and recorded their responses. In one example, footage of a worker slipping prompted replacement of the floor tiles.
Results
Takeaway
Alert review made ongoing camera checks practical. The supplier did not publish a measured reduction in accidents.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Evidence
- Vendor case study
Sources
Source summaries
VAAK reported deployment across 500 cameras at Kyocera's major factories. Staff described replacing continuous footage review with alert handling and using detected near misses to guide safety changes.
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