Jidoka Technologies named among the winners of the Cohort 7 of the Maruti Suzuki MAIL Program
Chennai, May 31, 2023: Jidoka Technologies, a leader in automated
cognitive inspection for the manufacturing industry, today announced it is one
of the 5 winners of Cohort 7 of the Maruti Suzuki MAIL (Mobility and Automobile
Innovation Lab) Program for startups that was held recently.
Driven
by Maruti Suzuki, India’s No. 1 Automobile Brand, and powered by the most
prominent Indo-Japanese seed fund and co-creation center, GHV Accelerator, MAIL
is an initiative to find technology-driven, innovative, and cutting-edge
digital solutions in the mobility and automobile space, which are futuristic
and customer-oriented.
With the
objective of democratizing technology-based innovation, Maruti Suzuki India
Limited’s MAIL program transforms innovative ideas into practical and
disruptive solutions by leveraging technology-based innovations. The MAIL
Program was initiated in 2019, and the company has made consistent efforts to
strengthen innovation in the areas of mobility and automobile solutions. MAIL
has successfully engaged with 42 startups across 7 cohorts and has effectively
enabled 22 POCs and onboarded 10 startups as business partners to date.
Commenting
on the achievement, Sekar
Udayamurthy, CEO and Co-founder, of Jidoka Technologies, said, “On behalf
of Jidoka Technologies I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Maruti
Suzuki for selecting us as one of the winners of Cohort 7 of the MAIL
Program. It was indeed an amazing learning experience to be part of one of
the best-run programs. While we continue
to work with component manufacturers and assemblers, we are now working
with India’s largest OEM as well. We look forward to an ongoing engagement and
going-to-market together to deliver customized solutions and create maximum
value for customers.”
Sekar Udayamurthy further
added, “This recognition would not
have been possible without the support of the amazing Jidoka team which thrives
on constant innovation.”
Jidoka’s
QC solutions deliver complete automation of visual inspection, which is a very
subjective process. They automate the process of visual quality while
increasing consistency and accuracy at high speed, by leveraging cutting-edge
technologies. Deep Learning algorithms, advanced image augmentation techniques,
and edge computing are some of the technologies used in Jidoka solutions for
high-speed decision-making on complex problems.
The
solutions deliver immense benefits to manufacturers as they are able to
digitize the inspection process and leverage the analytics to improve it
further. On the quality front, Jidoka’s software improves the defect detection
rate by 10% to 15% while also bringing down the false positives by as much as
30% to 40%. The solutions also perform inspection in real-time and eliminate
the checking process which otherwise can act as a bottleneck in the supply
chain.
Maruti
Suzuki MAIL program focuses on the growth trajectory of tech startups with
digital innovations, by extending a common platform to evaluate their potential
in the startup ecosystem and providing them with the necessary support and
guidance, to accelerate their growth.
About Jidoka Technologies:
Founded
in 2018, by technology leaders, Sekar Udayamurthy, Dr. Krishna Iyengar, and
Vinodh Venkatesan, Jidoka Technologies, the Chennai-based startup is a leader
in the field of automated cognitive inspection and delivers cutting-edge
engineering solutions. Jidoka stands for a principle that advocates
‘intelligent automation’ or ‘automation with a human touch’ in Japanese. Jidoka
‘s QC solution primarily consists of two
parts – the first being the hardware
platform – which they have productized into five design groups. The second
part is a software platform called Kompass that connects real-time
decision-making to state-of-the-art AI, to create an end-to-end system for
visual defect detection. For more information, please visit, https://jidoka-tech.ai/
With an aim to provide a platform for the technology startups that are working towards introducing new digital innovations into the Mobility and Automobile sector, Maruti Suzuki MAIL is more than just a startup accelerator for mobility & automobile software startups in India. MAIL aims to create an environment that fosters and accelerates the growth of the digital startups participating in the program. The startups that get selected in the program will be privy to a host of benefits and will have the opportunity to work on a paid project with Maruti Suzuki, and the possibility of Going-to-Market together. For more information, please visit, https://www.marutisuzukimail.com/