In the manufacturing industry, companies face increasingly complex challenges—from improving production processes and product quality to ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources, reducing CO₂ emissions, and addressing labor shortages.
Preferred Networks (PFN) collaborates with partners across sectors such as energy, materials, and machine tools, combining deep domain expertise with AI technologies and advanced computing infrastructure. Through automation and optimization of manufacturing processes, PFN is driving solutions that enhance efficiency, safety, and environmental performance.
PlantPilot™ is an AI-driven solution trained on plant operation data and expert knowledge, enabling stable and optimized automation even under complex or disturbed conditions. Applicable across a wide range of process manufacturing plants, it enhances operational efficiency and reduces dependence on manual expertise.
Preferred Networks Visual Inspection (PVI) is a software for inspecting industrial parts, food and other manufactured goods with over 200 clients. PFN's proprietary AI model allows users to perform quick, low-cost and high-precision inspection with a small training data of about 100 photographs. (Currently available in Japan)
Kachaka is an autonomous mobile robot developed and marketed by a PFN group company Preferred Robotics. Currently available in Japan, Kachaka docks to the specialized shelf, flexibly navigates itself according to the given environment and carry things to the specified destination. Kachaka is used in various scenes including factories, warehouses, doctors' offices and home.
PreferredAI™ is a group of PFN's products and services for solving diverse business challenges across industries.
Talent Scouter: Aptitude assessment through AI avatar interactions, ensuring consistent talent acquisition
Work Suite: AI agent supporting day-to-day operations using company-internal data
Insight Scan: Classification of large text data from reviews and surveys to uncover valuable insights
