An Overview of Digital Transformation
We view digital transformation as an engine for growth for our Group. We are aiming for sustainable growth toward Vision 2030 by tackling four themes. “Revamp of the corporate-wide digital core system to realize data-driven management” means we are putting systems into place to integrate and analyze all kinds of data, aiming to achieve visibility of management and agile decision-making. “Building up research and development capability by adopting sophisticated informatics technologies” means we are promoting Research Transformation (RX)* to revolutionize the research and development process. This will enable us to create new products and shorten development timescales. “Improvement of human work efficiency by turning the entire production system into smart factories” refers to building a flexible production system by automating and optimizing production lines utilizing IoT and AI. The final theme is “business operation transformation through utilization of digital tools.” With digital tools as a foundation, we will promote operational efficiency and improved productivity, leading to new ways of working that will bring out the maximum creativity in our employees.
* Research Transformation (RX) refers to efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of research and development activities by utilizing digital technology and data analysis to revolutionize the entire research process.
Message from the Departments Responsible for Digital Transformation
Building the foundations for data-driven management to accelerate future-looking, strategic business development
Shiro Hayashi
General Manager of IT Promotion Division
To make data-driven management a reality, it is vital to build a flexible and robust system infrastructure. As well as standardizing and optimizing business processes across the Company, we will establish systems to quickly integrate and visualize information from all our locations around the globe, enabling decisions to be made swiftly and accurately based on up-to-the-minute data. At the same time, by improving data literacy of our employees with a focus on training people to use business intelligence tools, we are building the foundations for strategic planning and execution based on data analysis. Core system conceptualization was completed in FY2024 as planned. In FY2025, we will move on from defining requirements to constructing the new system. As well as automating routine tasks, we also want to harness generative AI to improve productivity and realize flexible ways of working. These initiatives will help us to accelerate strategic business development, giving us a sustainable competitive advantage.
Digital literacy improvement and training of digital-skill talent
Hideki Oka
Head of Corporate Engineering Center
Digital transformation is gaining momentum, with our Group being recognized as a DX certified business by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in FY2025. We believe that training digital-skill leaders is the key to putting in place digital transformation, which is one of our Group’s material issues, and the four themes relating to it. We have set the following KPIs: double human productivity (compared to 2023), and reach 150 employees with data science-related certifications and 450 employees with data science-related skills by FY2030. As the first step toward this, we set the target of increasing human productivity by a factor of 1.1 and reaching 50 employees with data science-related certifications and 150 employees with data science-related skills in FY2024. Thanks to the introduction of robotics, we reached our human productivity target. We aim to further improve productivity by leveraging new technologies such as AI visual inspection, as well as sharing initiatives and challenges throughout the whole Company. Although we attained our target for the number of employees with data science-related certifications, we only achieved 97% of the target for employees with data science-related skills due to changes in the work environment of trainees. From FY2025, we will introduce a mentoring scheme with certified employees as mentors to strengthen the training and support system.