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Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia is pleased to announce that the company has won the Good Design Award 2021 by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) for its Gas Monitoring Solution.
Ensuring the safety of plant operation by visualizing a gas leak
Incorporating advanced infrared-camera technology and cutting-edge image processing technology, this gas monitoring solution enables a gas leak and the direction of gas flow to be visualized and displayed on the image of the scene being viewed, while identifying the source of the leak and quantifying the gas concentration. Even the solution allows staffs at the head office to simultaneously view the images captured by gas monitoring cameras installed in various locations. The solution helps anyone easily and instantly identify the source and amount of gas leak, enabling automated constant monitoring for abnormalities, and prompt and appropriate maintenance work even without special skills.
This system enables users to visualize a gas leak and optimize maintenance work, thus helping to prevent plant fires.
With the aging of plant equipment, the ability to visualize dangers invisible to the human eye will become increasingly important for plant maintenance. This is driving demand for cameras and image sensors that can see better than the human eye and can visualize various situations imperceptible to humans. The user interface superimposed on the visualized image also enables even less skilled and experienced workers to do maintenance work properly, helping to solve the worsening labor shortage.
The Good Design Award is a comprehensive design commendation program implemented by the JDP with a view to highlighting and commending outstanding designs around us in the pursuit of prosperous lives and industrial and social development. This program has a history spanning approximately 60 years since its implementation in 1957 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (present-day Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) under the name, Good Design Selection System, which was more widely known as the G Mark System.
About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia, based in Singapore, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. With its expertise in imaging, data processing and data-based decision making, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers and solves issues faced by society.
As a digital workplace solution provider, Konica Minolta helps its clients to identify and unlock the potential digitalisation to help companies reach the next level in the digital maturity of their organisation by rethinking the workplace.
In support of an ‘Intelligent Connected Workplace’, Konica Minolta offers cloud, IT, managed print and video solution services for remote working, collaboration, workflow management and automation and security. The ‘IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Print Transformation 2020 Vendor Assessment’ has also been credited to Konica Minolta as a ‘recognised globally as a leader in print transformation’.
With its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Konica Minolta has pledged to consistently pursue its sustainability and social responsibility goals. The company has been repeatedly recognized for its rich history of social contribution as well as for working towards achieving the SDGs throughout its business and is listed among “2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World”, also having received the highest level in EcoVadis Sustainabilty Ratings.
Worldwide, the company has over 43,000 employees and is operating in over 150 countries.
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