Komatsu Ltd. x Doshisha University Komatsu Wins DX Innovation Award 2024 for Excellence in the Business Company Category

-Kabe Pita, a wallpaper AI identification application

2025.03.07 14:00

コマツ株式会社

Komatsu Ltd. (Head Office: Higashiosaka City, Osaka; President: Satoshi Komatsu) and the Intelligent Mechanisms Laboratory (Professor: Masahiro Okuda) of the Department of Intelligent Information Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University have jointly developed the "Kabepita" wallpaper AI identification application with an "automatic texture identification program". The "DX Innovation Award 2024" (sponsored by the Omni-Channel Association of Japan), which recognizes and evaluates outstanding DX initiatives, awarded the company with an Excellence Award in the category of "Business Company.

DXイノベーション大賞

DX Innovation Award

The DX Innovation Awards ceremony was held at Omni-Channel Day 2025 on February 28, 2025.

コマツ株式会社×同志社大学　事業会社部門・優秀賞受賞

Komatsu Ltd. and Doshisha University received the Excellence Award in the Business Company Division.

Initiatives that were highly evaluated in receiving the Excellence Award

This year's Omni-Channel Day was held under the theme of "Co-Creation for the Future.

In awarding the Excellence Award, "Co-Creation" with many stakeholders, including businesses, universities, and suppliers in the industry, was highly evaluated. In the judging room, the judges were surprised when we demonstrated the identification using the "KABEPITA" application.

受賞記念撮影(右から、コマツ株式会社代表取締役小松智、同志社大学奥田正浩教授)

Commemorative photo of the award winners (from right, Satoshi Komatsu, President of Komatsu Ltd. and Professor Masahiro Okuda of Doshisha University)

Outline of KABEPITA

Komatsu Ltd. is a Higashi-Osaka-based company whose main business is interior decoration with over 45 years of business history.

There are more than 190,000 interior construction companies with capital of over 1 million yen throughout Japan. While the industry is facing a shortage of human resources and long working hours, there is a mountain of inefficient work that has remained unchanged for decades. One such task is the identification of materials with unknown part numbers, which is performed manually several times a month at the request of customers.

To solve this inefficient human work and identification problem, the Intelligent Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Intelligent Information Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, and Komatsu Ltd. took on the challenge of solving the problem by utilizing image recognition AI through an industry-academia collaboration.

The conventional identification program was unable to identify minute differences in material texture, so a new program had to be developed.

This technology has the potential to be applied to many other fields, such as building materials, agriculture, and medicine.

DXイノベーション大賞2024　優秀賞トロフィー

DX Innovation Award 2024 Excellence Trophy

日本オムニチャネル協会鈴木康弘会長と受賞後記念撮影

Commemorative photo with Yasuhiro Suzuki, Chairman of Japan Omni-Channel Association

What is DX Innovation Award 2024?

The Japan Omni-Channel Association (JOA) sponsors this award to recognize companies that aim for "business co-creation" through digital transformation (DX).

The award aims to publicize outstanding DX initiatives and support further innovation promotion and reform of Japanese companies.

https://omniassociation.com/association/dxinnovation

■DX Innovation Awards 2024 List of Winning Companies

Japan Omni-Channel Association Official Website

https://omniassociation.com/association/dxinnovation

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