"PDF conversion of paper documents" is not enough-Digitalization of design drawings with AI-Digitalization challenged by pioneers in the construction industry-ITmedia NEWS

The Structural Planning Institute was founded in 1956 by the first Japanese private company to introduce a computer (IBM 1620) for structural calculations. You may be familiar with the construction and construction industry.

The purpose of computer utilization at the time of its founding was "By freeing structural designers from simple calculation work, we can spend more time on designs that are centered on confusion, and create better architecture and society. I want to. "

Do you not understand this word somehow? That's right, it's exactly the same as what is said in the use of AI these days. Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho has been using technology since its inception to allow more time for things that only humans can do.

Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho, which has been using computers for a long time in the construction industry, is working on the use of AI by making use of its specialized knowledge. This time, we will introduce the digitization of drawings using AI, which will lead to improved work efficiency.

The business areas of the Structural Planning Institute are diverse. Including the construction field and disaster prevention field, we are engaged in information and communication and manufacturing industries by taking advantage of the strength of using computers from the beginning. We also support decision-making such as marketing, business evaluation, institutional design, and policy evaluation. The most distinctive feature is that our corporate philosophy is "a bridge between universities / research institutes and the business world", and we are contributing to the realization of next-generation social construction and institutional design by quickly incorporating academic knowledge.

The Structural Planning Institute began working on AI as early as the introduction of computers, in the 1980s, known as the Second AI Boom. After developing an expert system that can perform business without specialized knowledge and marketing support using a method called conjoint analysis, we developed an image analysis system and a multi-agent simulator in-house in the 1990s, and steadily developed AI-related technologies. I have accumulated power and experience.

Introducing an example of AI technology provided for the construction field by Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho, which has been using AI ahead of other companies. That is the digitization of paper-based drawings.

In order to realize DX (Digital Transformation), the existing information in the organization must be digitized. Of course, paper-based drawings need to be scanned and converted into data. However, the PDF files that have been converted into data are not truly digitized. Members such as cores and pillars drawn in the drawings on the PDF are data that can only be interpreted by humans, and cannot be interpreted by computers (design software).

It takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to manually check each drawing and input it to the computer in order to convert the information of members such as pillars into data that can be interpreted by a computer. By using image recognition using AI for this work process, it is possible to analyze drawings at high speed, extract basic building information, area, location information, etc. and convert them into digital data.

One of the utility values ​​of AI is that it can solve the difficulty of human interpretation and input to a computer, which is the bottleneck of digitization (digitizing analog work). In particular, digitization will not proceed unless it progresses from the state of being "digital data" to the state of being "data that can be interpreted by a computer".

The AI-based drawing digitization service provided by Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho not only improves the efficiency of design work. You will find that you can share know-how and reduce the risk of defects and rework in the subsequent processes.

In order to digitize documents that contain specialized content such as design drawings and make them usable in business, both specialized knowledge in the field and knowledge of data science such as image analysis and text analysis are required. Will be.

Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho is a group of engineering experts in the construction industry, and is also a group of computer utilization experts who have been the first to utilize computers for structural design. We will identify and realize the thoughts of everyone involved in construction and construction regarding the utilization of digital technology based on our knowledge and experience. If you are interested, feel free to contact Dell de AI or Kozo Keikaku Kenkyusho.

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