{"id":317406,"date":"2026-03-02T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:45:12","slug":"ai-gives-japans-aging-cement-industry-chance-for-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317406\/","title":{"rendered":"AI gives Japan&#8217;s aging cement industry chance for renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Taiheiyo Cement set to widen use of technology that learns kiln operation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260301N Cement kiln\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Taiheyo Cement&#8217;s rotary kilns heat the ingredients to make the building materials at high temperatures. (Photo by Ryo Asayama) \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Operating the massive rotating furnaces that cook the ingredients to make cement takes years of experience. With fewer seasoned hands to do the work, one Japanese company is turning to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies Taiheiyo Cement set to widen use of technology that learns kiln operation Taiheyo Cement&#8217;s rotary kilns heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4157,345,343,344,77696,14843,56887,85,2069,46,6198,25544,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-317406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-aging","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-cement","13":"tag-chance","14":"tag-gives","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-japans","19":"tag-renewal","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}