Hitachi Plant Construction Begins Advanced Use of 'Kencopa Engineering AI Agent'

株式会社KENCOPA (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Sosuke Yasumura; hereafter 'KENCOPA'), a firm dedicated to labor-saving and automation at construction sites, announced that Hitachi Plant Construction Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; President: Toyohiko Tsushita; hereafter 'Hitachi Plant Construction') has begun advanced use of its 'Kencopa Engineering AI Agent,' a construction-focused AI solution.

Background of Implementation At Hitachi Plant Construction, there has been a trend of increasing administrative tasks, such as document creation, for on-site supervisors. The added burden of preparing various plans and schedules has made it difficult to increase on-site involvement, making digital transformation (DX) for productivity improvement an urgent priority. Furthermore, there was a pressing need to reuse past project and performance data, as well as to codify and pass on the know-how of veteran plant construction engineers, with a particular demand for continuous accumulation of engineering knowledge.

Against this backdrop, the company decided to use the 'Kencopa Engineering AI Agent' because it can reduce the clerical burden on supervisors regarding schedule creation and help build a foundation of knowledge that can be utilized in the future based on past performance data. Moving forward, the company plans to establish an operational model that continuously accumulates and utilizes engineering data, with the goal of reducing supervisor workloads through phased verification.

Overview of the Initiative with KENCOPA The 'Kencopa Engineering AI Agent' is a construction-specialized AI agent that supports the entire process from schedule creation to implementation management and knowledge retention.

By simply uploading design documents (drawings, specifications, estimates), the AI, which has learned the company's own labor efficiency standards, automatically generates project proposals. The accumulated design and engineering data enable both labor savings and technology transfer.

Through the utilization of the engineering AI agent, Hitachi Plant Construction aims for the following effects: - Reduction of administrative burden on supervisors - Improvement of safety and quality by freeing up human resources for on-site verification - Increased efficiency and accuracy in schedule review through the use of past performance data - Strengthening of technology transfer from veteran engineers

KENCOPA will continue to work with Hitachi Plant Construction to build a productivity improvement model for construction sites.

Comment from Hitachi Plant Construction Representative 'As veteran technicians approach retirement in the construction industry and we must inevitably shift toward younger talent, the transmission of know-how and knowledge formalization are major challenges for us.

We recognize that prior engineering planning and project management during the implementation phase are key points in project promotion.

In particular, project planning often relies on the experience and sense of the creator, and simply looking at the completed schedule does not reveal the creator's intent, the site situation at that time, or the engineering conditions, which makes training planners difficult.

Through this initiative with KENCOPA, we expect to build standard patterns for schedule creation by analyzing past data and codifying that logic, thereby enabling efficient transmission to younger engineers.'