Business Plan on Master
Craftsmanship Succession
Dated December 1, 2019
Revised on December 23, 20191

Business Strategy• Skilled engineers having master craftsmanship usually perform judgementof products, defective or conforming based on their experience andinstitution, that is, by seat-of-the-pants.
• Considering such traditional manner, data analysis from sensors have been
recently applied to innovative manufacturing processes to more precisely
perform such judgement instead of skilled engineers.
• We have summarized such data analysis and related technologies asfollows:✓ Visualization technologies such as VR , AR
✓ Ontology for data cleaning✓ Artificial Intelligence2

Example of the Company “A”:
• The Company “A” has installed image processing inspection systems intheirn production lines to judge and identify defective products, and they
have, however, further selected doubtful products (might be defective,and these would be most probably production lots back and forthdefective products) according to their past experiences, which have been
defined as suspended products (re-inspected products).
• There have been still unknown in their procedures, which parameters they
have used or how they have judged. This procedure would be also
replaced by artificial intelligence.
• Please note that this could be applied to defective products, not to beapplied to any equipment or device.
• Such product qualities are very much sensitive to operating conditions.

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Visualization

Organization andLinkage of all the work
activities

Data analysis

VR, AR, video

Artificial intelligence

BBiT

What is a craftsman's skill?

Analyzing the data collected,using Deep Learning
to structure a BBiT (Behavior BasedInformation Tree)

Technology

Visualized technologies
to enhance an educational
efficiency

MasterCraftsmanshipto Explicit Knowledge

Expressed by VR and video

Instruction Manual
Educational Material•Tacit knowledge•Documented knowledge•Referenced material4An Ontology specialist has carried out the Ontology-applied projects, around 10
references. His specialized procedure contains the following work activities:✓ to analyze the business process✓ to extract the master craftsmanship (In general, the contents ofa master craftsman's skill are included in normal skills and techniques,
and the true craftsman's skill is extracted as per the work activitiesstructured.

8 hours work
volumeUsual Work Skills

MasterCraftsmanship Skills

30 minutes work volume5

Visualization
using a wearable device

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KYC Machine Industry Co., Ltd. (one of our grouped companies) : Manufacturing and salesof Construction machineries and Plant equipment, Scaffolding, Environment related products.
They have developed the above device for remote maintenance service for their products.
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Maintenance ManualServerManufacturer

InternetOur TeamCustomer

Application of Ontology

Organization and Linkage of all
the work activities

9Organization and Linkage of all the work activities
The following example is to be described on the application to an intelligent
maintenance manual:• Considering maintenance work activities performed by a customer, even
if any support or help by any supplier or related company in Japan isavailable for such maintenance service, training of a maintenance team of
the customer would be mandatory required.
• For such purpose, we can provide them with an intelligence, smart andelectronic based maintenance manual.
• The said manual has been developed and prepared based on BBiT
(Behavior Based Information Tree) and such concept is described in thefollowing slides:

10Use for training
Lecture (Classroom style)
Pre-(Post-) study

Manual to BBiT
Educational tool for
maintenance worker

Spot（OJT）
Procedure model+Linked materials（movies, pictures,…)

Check, record, remark
maintenance procedures
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Digital manuals
Personal use

Organize and link all items (BBiT Editor)

ManualBBiT Tree

Documents (digital form)

Abc...
Abc...
Abc...

Supplemental documents

Process management and use
Process (hierarchical order)

Note

Process(operation,maintenance,etc.

Movie

Abc...
Abc...
Abc...
PictureDiagrams, graphsManuals (digital form)

Information materials
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Application for maintenance manual

Paper manual

Procedure(hierarchical)

Link information material

BBiT Manual
Hierarchical modeling

Paper manual: convert to PDF and Link

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Link multimedia
material
Procedure model

Movies bycustomers (on thespot)

Browse movies related to the step

Original movies bycustomers can beimported andlinked

Link a step withmovies for
supplemental
information

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