Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 60 No. 4 (2023)   Service Technologies
    Technical Papers

    Approach to Highly Automated Operation Using AI Remote Monitoring and Operation Support System MaiDAS® in Joint Research with City of Yokohama

    MANA KATO
    YOSHINORI TERASAWA
    WATARU SUZUKI
    TOMOHITO HARADA
    TOMOMICHI EGUSA

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC) has developed MaiDAS®, a next-generation AI-based remote monitoring and operation support system. For waste-to-energy plants, MaiDAS® optimizes the output values of evaporation rate and exhaust gas concentration while maintaining the integrity of critical equipment that controls their operation, and also enables highly automated operation with human-dependent factors eliminated. We are currently conducting joint research with the City of Yokohama on operation support using MaiDAS Dashboard, one of the subsystems of MaiDAS®, and are working on highly automated operation as a part of the research. This report describes the progress of the joint research and the results of a four-day verification of the highly automated operation.