Current status and issues of digitalization in "Local Factory" -Conference x in Hiroshima Report 2

In each industry and industry, "Conference X in Hiroshima" (sponsored by Industrial-X) was held online on August 31, 2021, where companies that work ahead of DX will be on stage and discuss DX practice examples.。

This article introduces discussions about SMART FACTORY in session 2.The following four companies participated in the discussion.

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What to connect with digital

At the beginning of the discussion, Konno asked three questions, "What do you want to connect with digital?"

Connect people

In response to the question, Hibiki Seiki said that he wanted to connect people, people, veterans and young people by digital because technical tradition was an issue.

Hibiki Seiki is a company headquartered in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which provides metal precision processing.A new initiative is being promoted, such as conducting demonstration experiments related to local 5G in collaboration with West Nippon Telephone Telephone Co., Ltd. (hereinafter NTT West).

There are multiple production bases, and a small veteran worker is working while moving between the base, causing a moving loss.Hibiki Seiki is also characterized by many young employees, and it is said that several young employees are asking questions to one veteran worker.

Matsumoto has already been promoting technical traditions using smart glasses, but he wants to connect people more digitally in the future.

Connect people with machines

Kawato T.P.Mr. K's Kirita said he wanted to connect people with people.

Kawato T.P.C is a company that has a pipe assembly and metal machinery processing, headquartered in Yamaguchi Prefecture.As a digitalization, we have introduced a system that automatically draws piping drawings of apartment housing, and has introduced a remote control system of factories using IoT.

In machine processing, it is necessary to operate the machine 24 hours a day and produce it, but it is said that employees need to come to work every day to manage due to problems and unexpected devices.However, he thought that this way of working was not in the times and decided to introduce a remote control system.

It seems that it has already been remotely monitored and can be performed remotely by simple operations.He wants to proceed remotely in the future.

Connecting companies and customers

ビーライズの波田間氏は、デジタルによって企業と顧客がつながってほしいと回答した。ビーライズは、広島に本社を持つ、XRシステムを開発している企業だ。ひびき精機やKawato T.P.He is different from C and participates in the discussion in the position of providing digital technology to customers.

It is said that the spread of XR will make it easier to experience various experiences.For example, you will be able to travel on a virtual trip or a virtual meeting with people in the distance.

In the case of a trip, there may be many things that can be obtained by actually going to the site, such as local air and smell, but business negotiations at factories and products are less strange even if they are conducted in a virtual space.I guess.

If business negotiations and presentations can be done virtually, it is thought that business trips will decrease and customers will get faster.The exhibition is also considered to be virtual, and in order to differentiate it from competitors, it will be unsatisfactory to download the catalog with PDF.It is necessary to model a factory 3D modeling, but the effect of digitalization is great.

Furthermore, using MR will be able to immediately respond to maintenance and troubles after the delivery of the product.

How to respond to the challenge of human resources

Next, Mr. Konno asked about what kind of respondents they were dealing with, saying, "The challenges of promoting digitalization."

Share issues and technology

According to Hibiki Seiki, there are only two in -house SEs and the risk is high.He plans to consider hiring external human resources in the future, but he is currently considering educating within the company.

Among them, we are focusing on TPM (total production maintenance) activities.TPM activities are production and maintenance activities for all employees.It is said that employees are making opportunities for employees to present their employees on how to solve the issues on the site and how to solve the assignments in the system.

By sharing what kind of technology is used inside the company, it is now possible for management to young employees to understand the internal situation and proceed with improvement activities.He said that he is promoting human resource education by sharing customer issues, on -site issues, and assignments for each employee throughout the company.

Understand your own height

Kawato T.P.Mr. Kirita of C said it was important to understand its own height.

The world has a lot of interesting information about digitalization in magazines and newspapers, but he always thinks he can operate it in -house.If you are a company with abundant people, such as major companies, you may be able to operate even if you include new technology, but if you try to operate it in -house, you may not be able to operate well even if you invest a lot, so it is many.It seems that local factories and small and medium -sized enterprises have a situation in which the first step cannot be taken.

Kawato T.P.In C, the first hurdle was set quite low, and the first step was to take the first step after understanding the height of the company from the level that can be operated in -house without entering human resources from outside.

自社内でできる範囲で導入と運用を進めることで、そのレベルまでは社員が成長することになる。そうしたらまた次の一歩を踏み出すということを繰り返し行うことが必要だと桐田氏は考えているそうだ。Kawato T.P.In C, we believe that it can fail, and share all employees that accumulating small steps quickly leads to growth.

Have knowledge about digital

B -Rise's Hata Mama said that he needed human resources who know the point of digital technology as a position to provide digital technology to the manufacturing industry.It is important to know the skills and knowledge even if the IT system is not actually operated.

When you actually interact with the service provider, you need to talk about the cost and what parts are lacking.

Leadership for promoting digitalization

Subsequently, Mr. Konno asked how the successful digitalization was in the leadership of the manager, and asked how he was demonstrating leadership.

Customer requests digitized

The Hibiki Seiki is mainly manufactured and supplied to the semiconductor and aerospace industry, and believes that digitalization has accelerated due to requests from two industries.

The semiconductor industry has a short lead time in the manufacturing industry and has a large amount of small quantities.For this reason, Hibiki Seiki has been investing in IT to introduce systems since the 1990s.

In the aerospace industry, a process is guaranteed by 5m to ensure the quality of the product.Hibiki Seiki used the IT resources invested in the semiconductor industry to provide a more process guarantee.

In both industries, employees began to move due to customer requests, resulting in digitalization.Digital technology was needed while developing customers.

From the beginning, Matsuyama said that if you try to digitize for digitalization, you may fail.

Move your hand

Kawato T.P.C said that when he was digitizing, he would initially consider asking a trading company, etc., but because the situation varies from company to company, it could not be introduced immediately by buying a solution.

When Mr. Kirita talked to the president and said, he said, "Do it yourself."He said he was able to deepen his understanding by moving his hand, and that it was important to be able to talk about what was the purpose.

Currently, when introducing new technologies, Kirita first shows the direction of moving his hand, and then involves employees.

The manager proceeds with the project

Hata Mama said that it was important to make good adjustments if the organization wanted to maintain the status quo or did not want to change.

It is said that DX's essence, changing business models and acquiring new customers, is the job of the manager.Mr. Hata said that it is important for managers to persisted, saying that the projects that started at the person in charge of the person would not continue to deliver once to the delivery.

Possibility of feeling with digital technology

Finally, Mr. Konno asked what he felt about advanced digital technology.

Matsuyama said he wanted to solve the technical tradition the most in digitalization.He stated that the formal knowledge of tacit knowledge was not progressing well, and that he would like to formally acquire craftsmanship that lights the metal thinly by XR.Furthermore, Industrie4.He was paying attention to 0, and he wanted to promote the connection between factories.

Mr. Kirita said he would like to use digital technology as a tool to realize how easy it is for employees to work.Kirita wants to run a company to connect to his grandchildren.

Mr. Hata said that virtual and physical will integrate more and more.It is thought that various digital technologies will lead to work more and faster, and individualization will decrease.He stated that it would be better to increase the efficiency as it would be more creative only for humans.

Mr. Konno finally said that there was a lot of information in the world, but it was important to work hard on the information we needed.The story that came out this time was that it was a matter of course for a factory that was rooted in the area, but it was also a part that was lost while working.

After graduating from university, he worked for a manufacturer.He is involved in the launch of a new line as a production technical job and a Kaizen business in the factory.He joined the company in July 2019 and is exploring the possibility of IoT, mainly in the manufacturing industry.