Toyota Industries Corporation and Nagoya Institute of Technology launch joint research on smart plants and warehouses

[Translation]
In April 2022, Toyota Industries Corporation (President: Akira Onishi) and Nagoya Institute of Technology (President: Takatoshi Kinoshita) opened the TICO Smart Industries Laboratory at Nagoya Institute of Technology to start joint research on elemental technologies for making plants and warehouses smart.
In order to respond to the increasingly serious labor shortage and diversifying customer needs, plants and warehouses are required to evolve into being more compact, flexible, and highly efficient. Another important issue is to address decarbonization.
The newly established research institute will conduct advanced development of elemental technologies necessary for smarter plants and warehouses by combining the plant management capabilities and manufacturing expertise possessed by Toyota Industries with the data analysis and communication technologies held by Nagoya Institute of Technology.
Specifically, under the three themes of (1) Connected, (2) Layout-free, and (3) Carbon neutrality, development of communication technology for transmitting and receiving data throughout a building, power supply technology that does not restrict where equipment is installed, and energy management technology for minimizing and optimizing power consumption in plants and warehouses will be carried out, and demonstration experiments will be conducted at the Obu Plant of Toyota Industries.

1. Details of Research

2. Outline of the TICO Smart Industries Laboratory