How Kubota is changing the status quo in agriculture and sustainability with technology

Kubota, a Japanese-based providers and know-how supplier throughout the agriculture, water and environmental industries, has a eager give attention to innovation and sustainability. Just a few years in the past, Kubota aimed to sort out operational effectivity challenges, water and sewage techniques upkeep points, and workers shortages that many native corporations confronted. Concurrently, it tried to decide to its zero carbon metropolis declaration, which goals to nearly remove carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Kubota consulted with IBM® to create a system that makes use of AI and IoT within the subject of operations and upkeep to efficiently deal with Kubota’s enterprise challenges.

The outcome? IBM deployed IBM® Maximo® Utility Suite, which runs on Microsoft Cloud. This deployment aimed to assist the event of Kubota Good Infrastructure System (KSIS) BLUE FRONT, a brand new system enhancing the working effectivity and upkeep of water and wastewater services. The excellent platform hyperlinks Kubota’s KSIS, an IoT system, with IBM’s facility upkeep and asset administration platform.  

By utilizing Microsoft Cloud, the platform can flexibly scale as much as accommodate the roughly 100 services that Kubota Environmental Engineering Company will function, and deal with future will increase. 

“With KSIS BLUE FRONT, we wish to contribute to fixing our prospects’ issues by centrally managing knowledge on the operation and upkeep of water and wastewater services, enhancing operational effectivity by means of data visualization, and decreasing high quality dangers and lifecycle prices,” says Junichi Tanabe from Kubota’s Environmental Enterprise Planning and Gross sales division.

IBM Consulting® helped Kubota to ship all the implementation part and construct out the system. Since its deployment, the sector has already seen the period of time spent on administrative work lowered significantly.  

Kubota plans to cut back not solely the quantity of electrical energy, but additionally the usage of numerous chemical substances and consumables used to function the plant. It will cut back prices by being extra environment friendly on their knowledge. Kubota can be seeking to cut back the budgets of municipalities with water provide services by utilizing the IoT knowledge that analyzes breakage, developments and previous repairs of their gear and upkeep. 

“It’s no exaggeration to say that this initiative has simply begun, and with the cooperation of IBM, we hope to develop it right into a de facto normal not solely in Japan but additionally globally,” says Tanabe.

Kubota will proceed utilizing the dynamic mixture of IBM Maximo Utility Suite on Microsoft Azure with Purple Hat® OpenShift® to assist their digital transformation journey. They’re working towards the objective of regulating CO₂ emissions and attaining carbon neutrality to redefine their strategy to the agriculture business. 

For extra data on IBM Maximo Suite Utility, take a look at the Microsoft Marketplace. Or to study extra about our partnership with Microsoft and Maximo, take a look at our “Better Together” weblog.  

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