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Tokyo – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has utilized its video analysis and generative AI to develop a technology that provides advice for improving worker performance by identifying differences between model actions and actual movements. This newly developed technology enables the automatic display of appropriate advice for improving everything from precision tasks using one’s hands and fingers to tasks requiring the use of the entire body. Using this technology, workers can master tasks without supervision at worksites in manufacturing, logistics, construction, and various other industries. In recent years, the shortage of mentors arising from the aging of skilled workers has made passing down skills a challenge. Moreover, there is growing concern regarding the decline of work quality as a result of the increasing cost of supervised training and the inability to provide workers with sufficient training due to the rise of high-mix low-volume production and the diversit...

NEC Corporation has announced its plans to acquire NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC, ticker: 1973) listed on the Prime Market section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This is to create greater business synergy within the group. NESIC was established in November 1953 as Nippon Electric Installation Company, a spin-off from the sales division of NEC, with the aim of carrying out the design, construction and maintenance of telecommunications equipment. Subsequently, NESIC changed its corporate name to NEC System Integration & Construction, Ltd. in December 1980, and to its current corporate name, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation, in October 2005. NESIC will be delisted and taken private after the acquisition.