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Canon Inc. announced that the company will partner with AVEVA Group plc with the objective of adding capabilities to smart factories through its Canon imaging technologies.
The partnership will help Canon to apply its technologies to smart factories, which the company defines as innovative facilities in which all production equipment and machinery are connected to a network. The company plans to provide a range of system solutions that help to enhance factory automation and improve productivity through the Canon Industrial Imaging Platform. This partnership will bring together solution, such as the Company's network camera and industrial camera technologies, as well as image processing technologies that help to enhance factory visualization.
Through a technology partnership with AVEVA, Canon will provide a variety of solutions to support factory automation that combine the wide range of AVEVA capabilities, including industrial automation and information management software, with the imaging technology Canon has developed over its history.
AVEVA's InTouch HMI/SCADA system (powered by Wonderware) will be integrated with such Canon products as network cameras, industrial cameras and software for production centers to create new solutions based on video and image processing technologies employed on factory floors.
Beginning in early September 2018, it will be possible to utilize AVEVA software with Canon network cameras to help further enable the remote monitoring of factory floors from locations, such as production control departments and central monitoring rooms. Capabilities will be gradually expanded, enabling users to link information collected from AVEVA software with Canon's Monitoring Edition video management software and Vision Edition3 image processing software.
The combination of Canon and AVEVA products enables a more efficient monitoring of a factory's operational status through such features as video recording and image processing technology. This helps to enable the automation of certain imaging tasks conventionally performed by workers, which can help to prevent problems before they happen or speed up the recovery from problems with production equipment.
Canon plans to expand the Intelligent Functions of its network cameras, which include Intruder Detection and Abandoned Object Detection. The Company plans to link this information, detectable only by these cameras, to AVEVA software with the aim of further improving production efficiency.