Over the past two decades, domestic manufacturing industries have ridden the wave of globalization, with a tendency to relocate manufacturing operations overseas while retaining design and development departments domestically. However, this trend is undergoing significant changes. Due to geopolitical issues and currency fluctuations, among other factors, there is a growing trend of “reshoring” manufacturing operations back to the home country. In the semiconductor industry, large-scale domestic investments, including factories in Kumamoto and Hokkaido, are being made one after another.
As the trend of domestic manufacturing resurgence continues, the demand for workstations has expanded even further.
Mr. Akira Nakajima, Director of the Outside Specialist Department at Dell Technologies Client Solutions Division, explains, “With the rapid advancement of AI (artificial intelligence) technology, the computational power of computers for performing tasks has become even more crucial. Workstations equipped with powerful GPUs are indispensable for AI utilization, leading to increased demand in all areas related to manufacturing, including design, development, and factory operations.”
In the field of medical equipment, AI implementation is expanding in diagnostic areas, with workstations equipped with GPUs being utilized. In factory production lines, the introduction of workstations is being considered to further accelerate appearance inspections using vision AI.
The demand for workstations in design and development departments utilizing CAD and CAE remains high, both domestically and internationally. Although many CAD vendors have announced a shift to the cloud, the presence of high-performance workstations with advanced CPUs is essential for conducting actual CAD operations on client terminals.
Amidst the growing demand for workstations for various applications in domestic manufacturing, Dell Technologies offers a comprehensive lineup of products under the “Dell Precision” brand.
Dell Precision is divided into three categories: the entry-level “3000 Series,” the high-performance “5000 Series,” and the top-tier “7000 Series.” In terms of form factor, there are seven models of tower/rack workstations and seven models of mobile workstations available.
Source: Monoist
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