Development of Fully Automated Systems and Advanced FA IoT Products

「In addition to robotics, the scope of labor-saving and automation in manufacturing is becoming increasingly broad as technology advances. We believe that the market for labor-saving investment, particularly in automation systems and various testing machines, will continue to expand significantly, and we intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this area.」

「Various inspection equipment, including equipment for shipment inspections, performed well due to increased capital investment using IoT. In addition, amid growing demand for various automation systems, including robot systems, and expanding application areas, our group’s “One Stop Shopping” initiative performed well.」

「Various inspection equipment, including equipment for shipment inspections, performed well due to increased capital investment using IoT. In addition, amid growing demand for various automation systems, including robot systems, and expanding application areas, our group’s “One Stop Shopping” initiative performed well.」

「The Intelligent FA Systems business continued to perform solidly, supported by manufacturers' strong appetite for capital investment, strong sales of IoT-enabled production management systems, inspection systems typified by shipping inspection, and various monitoring systems, as well as very positive reception for the company's One Stop Shopping initiative amid expanding demand for various automation systems such as robotics.」

「In addition to robotics, the scope of labor-saving and automation in manufacturing is becoming increasingly broad as technology advances. We believe that the market for labor-saving investment, particularly in automation systems and various testing machines, will continue to expand significantly, and we intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this area.」

「The intelligent FA system business continued to perform well, supported by strong performance in various inspection systems as capital investment using IoT increased, growing demand for various automation systems including robotic systems, and the success of measures to strengthen "One Stop Shopping."」

「The Group continues to benefit from strong tailwinds, including growing investment demand for automation systems, particularly robotic systems, and rapid advances in AI that are expanding the scope of tasks performed by robots.」

「The high-value-added Intelligent FA Systems business continued to perform solidly. Various systems, including production management systems, inspection systems typified by shipping inspection, and monitoring systems for electricity, water and other resources, performed well as capital investment using IoT increased. In addition, the company's "One Stop Shopping" initiative has been well received amid growing demand for various automation systems such as robotics.」

「In addition to robotics, the scope of labor-saving and automation in manufacturing is becoming increasingly broad as technology advances. We believe that the market for labor-saving investment, particularly in automation systems and various testing machines, will continue to expand significantly, and we intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this area.」

「The Intelligent FA Systems business continued to perform well, supported by strong sales of various inspection systems as capital investment using IoT continued to increase, expanding demand for water quality testing systems and various automation systems such as robotics, and strong performance from the company's "One Stop Shopping" initiative.」

「The Intelligent FA Systems business performed relatively steadily, supported by manufacturers' solid appetite for capital investment, strong sales of various inspection systems as capital investment using IoT increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and expanding demand for the water quality testing business and various automation systems. However, due to higher raw material prices and other factors, revenue increased while operating profit declined from the same quarter of the previous year.」

「In addition to robotics, the scope of labor-saving and automation in manufacturing is becoming increasingly broad as technology advances. We believe that the market for labor-saving investment, particularly in automation systems and various testing machines, will continue to expand significantly, and we intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this area.」

「The Intelligent FA Systems business posted higher revenue and operating profit than in the same quarter of the previous year. The business performed relatively steadily after the lifting of the state of emergency, supported by strong sales of various inspection systems as capital investment using IoT increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as expanding demand for the water quality testing business and various automation systems.」

「The Group continues to benefit from strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「In addition to the automotive industry, the introduction of robots into production equipment in other industries is accelerating. As the lineup of core technologies, including 3D cameras, image-recognition technology, and robot hands, has become more complete, we are increasingly able to shorten the development period before implementation.」

「The Group is benefiting from strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「Our Group has continued to advance the One Stop Shopping initiative, our basic management policy, striving to expand the scope of orders received and improve profitability while building a new business model.」

「The Group continues to benefit from strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment at production sites facing severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「The Group is benefiting from strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「The Group is benefiting from strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「The Group continues to benefit from a very strong tailwind in intelligent FA technology, its core business encompassing the convergence of IoT and FA (Factory Automation), as innovation remains active and demand for robots grows amid rising interest in labor-saving investment in an environment of increasingly severe labor shortages.」

「In recent years, the industry has been moving toward miniaturizing resistors and capacitors mounted in electronic equipment. We are planning preparations to address this trend in both mounting equipment and inspection equipment, and have begun developing new products to meet it.」

「In the intelligent FA system business within the Group's business scope, innovation, including IoT, has become more active and new businesses have been expanding rapidly. In addition, demand for robots has grown as investment in labor-saving measures has increased amid a worsening labor shortage, while advances in AI have expanded the range of tasks that robots can perform, providing a very strong tailwind.」

「In the intelligent FA systems business covered by our Group, innovation including IoT has become more active and new business areas have expanded rapidly. The Group also benefited from very strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「Within intelligent FA technology, the area where the IoT and FA technologies covered by our Group converge, innovation including IoT has become more active and new business areas have expanded rapidly. The Group also benefited from very strong tailwinds, including growing demand for robots driven by labor-saving investment amid increasingly severe labor shortages, as well as advances in AI expanding the range of tasks robots can perform.」

「We also expect investment demand related to labor-saving solutions, including automation systems and various types of testing equipment, not only robots, to grow significantly going forward, and intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this field. In addition, we will focus on developing and expanding sales of new products in the environmental products field, including energy-saving products, an area in which we have traditionally excelled, and water-quality monitoring equipment for preventing water pollution.」

「The intelligent FA systems business generated higher revenue and profit, as the systems business targeting greater manufacturing capacity at manufacturing companies, including various types of testing equipment and systems for greater efficiency and automation, performed well, as did the environmental business, including continuous water-quality monitoring equipment.」

「In addition to expanding its overseas business by leveraging the Group's overseas network, new innovations in Japan, driven by IoT and AI and described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, have stimulated new capital investment. This has created increasing business opportunities for the Group, whose scope covers the area where IT and FA technologies converge.」

「In addition to expanding its overseas business by leveraging the Group's overseas network, new innovations in Japan, driven by IoT and AI and described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, have stimulated new capital investment. This has created increasing business opportunities for the Group, whose scope covers the area where IT and FA technologies converge.」

「We also expect investment demand related to labor-saving solutions, including automation systems and various types of testing equipment, not only robots, to grow significantly going forward, and intend to further strengthen our business development structure in this field.」

「IoT adoption is advancing rapidly at the production sites of our major manufacturing customers. Capital investment has become increasingly active as customers pursue advanced factory automation using robots and intelligent FA systems, as well as fully automated factories capable of producing semi-custom products without relying on human labor. Our Group is pooling its resources to develop fully automated solutions, advanced FA IoT products, and system products that will enable us to capture this trend reliably.」