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◆Overview Is the complexity unique to custom order manufacturing causing inefficiencies and reliance on specific individuals? In this seminar, we will explain the key points for addressing the root causes. We will introduce specific methodologies (approaches) and secrets to success for taking a solid first step in promoting DX, such as streamlining and accelerating transaction points, visualizing technical information, and utilizing AI. ◆Date and Time: November 19, 2025 (Friday) 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM ◆Participation Fee: Free ◆Recommended for: - Those who want to improve the efficiency of the supply chain/value chain - Those who handle technical information, including requirements specifications (design department, production technology, DX department, etc.)

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【Overview】 We provide reliable information on ESG and sustainability promptly. Once a week, we collect information released by governments and public institutions from various countries, translate and summarize it, and distribute it via email. (Free registration for distribution) 【Recommended for】 - Those who are collecting and verifying information on ESG and sustainability. 【Are you facing these issues?】 - You cannot keep up with the latest trends unless you search proactively. - Information is scattered, making collection time-consuming. - Translating overseas information is cumbersome. - You cannot find reliable sources of information. 【Importance of Keeping Up with Latest Trends】 - Regulations and policies are still unstable and changing rapidly. - If you do not constantly check the latest trends, you may fall behind. - Trends in the U.S. and EU affect Japan, making international information gathering essential even for companies not operating locally. ◆ For more details, please download and view the catalog.

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This event has concluded. Thank you very much for your participation. Please look forward to the next event! In today's world, where the realization of DX (Digital Transformation) is being called for, the "development" of human resources and organizations is key to collecting data and expanding its utilization. At the 21st SONAR Research Meeting, we will provide content that weaves together various real-life examples centered around "development" associated with data utilization in the context of realizing DX. Additionally, this time, we have prepared a space for real-time communication with the participating companies and organizing companies. ◆ Date and Time: October 7, 2024 (Monday) to October 8, 2024 (Tuesday) / 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM ◆ Participation Fee: Free

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We would like to introduce a case study of the implementation of the data utilization solution "YDC SONAR" at NGK Insulators, Ltd., which handles power-related equipment such as insulators. The company had been collecting and analyzing production line data for some time, but due to the almost manual handling, the maximum amount of data processed in a day was limited to 200-300 items. After the implementation, they were able to efficiently and centrally collect, manage, and analyze data, resulting in improvements in yield, increased efficiency of indirect operations, and faster information sharing. Additionally, there have been indirect effects such as a review of the data collection and analysis processes. [Challenges] - The maximum amount of data processed in a day is limited to 200-300 items. - Optimizing processes that require large-scale data analysis is not easy. - It is also difficult to discern causal relationships and degrees of influence between processes. *For more details, please download the PDF or feel free to contact us.

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We would like to introduce a case study of Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., which develops residential and renovation businesses, where the data utilization solution "YDC SONAR" for the manufacturing industry was implemented. The company aims to detect process anomalies as early as possible, minimize the occurrence of defective products, and prevent such occurrences altogether. They needed a system to manage performance data, which was stored separately, in an integrated manner to enable efficient and advanced analysis. After implementation, operational performance data was incorporated into this system, which was linked with the production management system, allowing for integrated analysis by narrowing down lots and manufacturing times. This not only helped maintain quality but also enabled rapid investigation of the causes of anomalies. 【Case Overview】 ■Challenges - Minimize the occurrence of defective products and prevent such occurrences altogether. - Establish a system for integrated management of performance data that allows for efficient and advanced analysis. ■Effects - Regular checks during the process have become easier. - The ability to quickly address the investigation of causes during anomaly occurrences has improved. *For more details, please download the PDF or feel free to contact us.

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We would like to introduce a case study of the implementation of the data utilization solution "YDC SONAR" for the manufacturing industry at Yokogawa Manufacturing Corporation, which engages in the production of electrical machinery and equipment. The company faced chronic quality issues that could not be resolved with traditional approaches. As part of their efforts to address and improve these issues, they implemented our product on their printed circuit board manufacturing line and component mounting line. After the implementation, by linking quality information from AOI with various production management data on our system, they were able to analyze information regarding the chronic occurrence of pattern defects and identify the causes in a short time. [Case Overview] ■ Challenges - Resolving and improving chronic quality issues - Although efforts were made to utilize quality management, they had not reached the stage of effective utilization ■ Effects - Identification of the causes of chronic printed circuit board defects - The data analysis time for 50 million data points was reduced from one and a half hours to just a few minutes *For more details, please download the PDF or feel free to contact us.

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We would like to introduce a case study of the implementation of the data utilization solution "YDC SONAR" for the manufacturing industry at the Yasugi Factory of Protec Material Co., Ltd., a metal material manufacturer. The factory was working on collecting, aggregating, and analyzing various data to achieve quality improvement that does not rely on skills or intuition. However, the problem was that the collection, aggregation, and scrutiny of data had become the primary task. To address this, the system was introduced as a manufacturing data utilization platform for collecting, accumulating, and analyzing various manufacturing data. The manual data collection and preprocessing efforts were eliminated, allowing analysis to be completed in less than one-tenth of the previous time. [Case Overview] ■ Challenge: Establishing an efficient quality management and defect analysis environment ■ Effects - The manual labor previously required has been eliminated, enabling analysis to be completed in less than one-tenth of the time. - There is a tangible sense of acceleration in the PDCA cycle. *For more details, please download the PDF or feel free to contact us.

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We would like to introduce a case where YDC SONAR was implemented at SUMCO Corporation, which manufactures and sells silicon wafers for semiconductors. The company has been facing an increasing number of cases where its traditional quality sensitivity and quality stability are insufficient to satisfy customers. Therefore, it became urgent to establish a centralized management system and operational framework that allows for real-time monitoring of each process, as well as easy and rapid detection, handling, and recording of anomalies. Leveraging our extensive experience in building integrated database systems in various manufacturing sectors, particularly in the semiconductor industry, we developed a system that enables engineers to easily create cross-sectional analysis environments. [Challenges] - An increasing number of cases where the company's traditional quality sensitivity and quality stability are unable to satisfy customers. - Many individual systems operate independently, and the systems and tools implemented at different factories or processes vary, leading to a lack of data compatibility and interoperability. *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.*

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We would like to introduce a case where Jatco Ltd., one of the world's leading manufacturers of transmission systems, implemented "YDC SONAR." The company possessed various data, which was scattered within the organization in 2011 and was not being utilized effectively. Therefore, they introduced our product with the aim of centralizing their database. By centralizing data with our product, the searchability and speed of analysis and processing were dramatically improved. [Case Overview] ■ Challenge: The company owned various data that was scattered within the organization and was not being utilized effectively. ■ Effects: - Centralizing data significantly improved searchability and the speed of analysis and processing. - The company became able to respond quickly in case of product defects, minimizing the impact on customers. *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.

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"YDC SONAR" is a strategic information platform that easily analyzes the vast amounts of data generated in manufacturing sites, supporting rapid decision-making. It manages data across multiple processes with different management systems and granularities without imposing operational burdens. It enables cross-sectional analysis of data generated across multiple processes and locations, leading to solutions for various challenges. 【Benefits of Implementation】 ■ No-code configuration changes and template saving eliminate reliance on specific individuals ■ Achieves overwhelming high-speed rendering without thinning out large amounts of data ■ Easily creates reports and forms specialized for the manufacturing industry ■ Prevents data tampering with encrypted PDFs ■ Enables identification of defect causes through the establishment of traceability ■ Realizes preventive maintenance of equipment based on data *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.

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"SearchMaru" is an image statistical analysis platform that collects and connects various data, including images, to solve customer challenges. By accelerating judgment speed, it enables 100% inspection, reducing the risk of defective products being released. Furthermore, it alleviates the reliance on individual inspectors, resolves inspection bottlenecks during increased production, and helps control labor costs. Additionally, by allowing AI to seamlessly integrate with existing equipment and systems, it becomes possible to quickly identify areas for improvement in the manufacturing process, leading to enhanced quality control and productivity. [Features] ■ Easy addition and maintenance of AI models even for non-IT departments ■ Feedback of judgment results to existing devices and systems through inline integration ■ Visualization of judgments, which often become black boxes (XAI) ■ Digitization of images, enabling factor analysis, trend monitoring, and defect prediction in subsequent processes by combining all data (process, inspection) *For more details, please refer to the PDF materials or feel free to contact us.

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"Fleacia CPQ" is a high-end SaaS CPQ applicable to mass customization. It is an application that conducts special technical calculation simulations and layout considerations to identify appropriate product specifications and sizes based on customer requirements and uses. Estimates can be made without design. Since estimates can be provided on the spot with customers, it reduces the number of specification meetings with customers and enhances customer satisfaction. [Features] ■ CPQ compatible with ETO ■ Quick estimate responses ■ Customer approach independent of sales skills *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.

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The "Freesia Product Selector" is a SaaS service that supports product consideration for B2B manufacturing companies. Inside sales nurtures and qualifies leads from customer inquiries, connecting high-probability leads to field sales, thereby optimizing sales resources. It allows for the publication of product consideration guides for complex product systems on the web, enabling information retrieval through application searches and usage condition searches, identifying product candidates, and linking them to inquiries. 【Features】 ■ Digital-driven lead generation ■ Search for a wide variety of products based on customer perspective requirements ■ Accumulation and feedback of customer contact information *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.

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"Fleacia" is a solution brand that integrates six solutions to accelerate digital transformation (DX) starting from customer touchpoints in the B2B manufacturing industry, aiming to enhance the added value for customers. By linking data from digitized customer touchpoints with accumulated performance data and utilizing AI, it enables predictions and recommendations that are not based on individual intuition or experience. This significantly enhances the added value of proposals to customers. 【Features】 ■ Grand design for customer touchpoint reform (enhancing customer experience) ■ Web-based customer purchasing process (acquisition and nurturing of new high-quality prospects) ■ B2B e-commerce (expansion of sales through increased inquiry responses) ■ Order process reform (standardization of sales specifications and reform of sales and order design operations) *For more details, please refer to the PDF document or feel free to contact us.

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The "Fleacia Product Selector" is a web-based product consideration guide for complex product systems, supporting customers in their product information research and decision-making stages. As it has become commonplace for customers to gather and compare information online, companies that can provide decision-supporting information on the web are reaping significant benefits. This tool is designed to publish a product guide that allows users to independently consider complex product systems online. Being a SaaS solution, it enables quick and agile implementation with minimized initial investment and risk. 【Features】 ■ Easily search for optimal products in highly specialized B2B manufacturing ■ Functions for collecting product information and comparing options to assist customer product considerations ■ Improved sales efficiency through management of customer consideration and inquiry histories ■ No-coding capabilities for adding and maintaining product information *For more details on features and implementation, please feel free to contact YDC Corporation.

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Our company begins by designing business and systems that apply CRM to manufacturing operations, leveraging a professional team with deep expertise in the manufacturing industry. We strongly promote support for the design of needs and specifications related to the integration and management of CRM. Through strengthening partnerships with companies that provide global standard CRM and including the development of unique systems and SaaS in this area, we achieve integration of management systems centered around CRM, focusing on SoE (System of Engagement). We offer a full-line service from the establishment and operation after CRM implementation as a one-stop solution, promoting digital transformation (DX) in the manufacturing industry. 【Support Examples】 <Machine Tools> ■ Business reform concepts accompanying CRM implementation, system grand design, definition of new business processes after CRM implementation, RFP creation/system selection support. <Industrial Machinery> ■ System/master grand design including CRM in the development of global business infrastructure, support for defining CRM business requirements. *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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"Product Lifecycle Management" is not just an IT system infrastructure; it is a unique management system for the manufacturing industry that starts with business rules and data management rules related to all business regulations such as development design, sales, and manufacturing, and is necessary for managing the QCDE of products and services offered in business. We provide consulting for PLM reform that places design model methodology at the core of service value, as well as integration services for PLM solutions. We promote the establishment of true lifecycle management that transforms strategy, operations, organization, systems, and product data as a whole. [Support Examples (Partial)] <General Machinery> ■ Formulation of project execution plans for centralized management of design information aimed at improving development capabilities, support for PLM implementation. <Control/Measurement Instruments> ■ PLM reform concept and implementation support aimed at providing new customer value and enhancing global business efficiency. *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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"Front-End Innovation" is a consulting service that integrates a consulting methodology and a range of solutions aimed at driving "customer-centric business transformation" specifically in the manufacturing industry. It is important to transform into a business model that can quickly respond to changes in market and customer needs by understanding "what specific customers are seeking" and swiftly converting that into products and services for business development. While autonomously promoting individual digital transformations (DX), the combination of DX outcomes leads to significant results in business transformation for the manufacturing industry. 【Support Examples (Partial)】 <Control/Measurement Equipment> ■ Grand design for customer engagement reform and development of unique applications ■ Implementation of short-term measures and feasibility studies utilizing SaaS <General Machinery> ■ Support for the introduction of CPQ aimed at global business expansion and the efficiency of sales and order operations, as well as rule establishment support *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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We support the strengthening of organizational management capabilities that enable organizational structural reform and dynamic resource allocation, as well as the development of human resources. It is important to enhance and cultivate diverse human resources, led by business leaders who can access people and technology across corporate and organizational boundaries and integrate them into a business. Additionally, it is crucial for management to quickly grasp the situation and accurately implement resource allocation to assign key human resources to new businesses while maintaining current business operations. With a focus on organizational reform through "Flexible Organization" and human resource reform through "Business Leader Development," we promote the transformation of business models in Japanese manufacturing that are suitable for a new era through organizational and human resource consulting and solutions. [Support Examples (Partial)] <Control/Measurement Equipment> - Company-wide organizational structural reform aimed at strengthening market response capabilities and improving customer lifecycle value (innovation capability). - Business leader development training. *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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Our company is strongly focused on realizing new business models. We develop business models based on the strengths of our clients by utilizing co-creative consulting that incorporates mainstream business modeling methods and our unique design model methodology, taking into account the overall strategy, policies, business challenges, and current situation of the client's company. To promote new business development, we conduct quick business validations based on a partner strategy that includes customers, using ecosystem thinking. We support the establishment of businesses by rapidly cycling through the PDCA of trial and error. 【Support Examples (Partial)】 <Control/Measurement Equipment> ■ Product portfolio analysis across the entire corporation and strategic business considerations for the medium to long term. <Non-Ferrous Metal Components> ■ Business model design, business strategy formulation, and business process analysis for next-generation strategic new businesses. *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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With the arrival of the knowledge society, the importance of "information" assets as a management resource, as well as productivity improvement and the establishment of data-driven businesses, have become critical issues. Our company provides comprehensive support for data reform, from grand design to data modeling and cleansing, and from the construction of data migration tools to the stabilization of operations post-migration, all in a one-stop service. We have specialists well-versed in manufacturing operations consulting, who have successfully led system integration for the distribution of complex product information and BOM in many manufacturing industries, as well as teams that provide consulting on design models such as product information and BOM through product reform and development design business reform, including design standardization and modularization. [Themes (Excerpt)] ■ Grand design and execution plan for data reform concept ■ System/master grand design, BOM data modeling ■ Current system/data investigation, assessment, and execution policy development *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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Our company defines digital transformation as "transforming into a business model that provides enhanced customer value by leveraging digital technology to innovate products, services, and business," and we are promoting "offensive DX" in Japanese manufacturing aimed at improving "added value" for customers, rather than merely digitizing for operational efficiency. We design suitable solutions and digital technologies for our customers' businesses. Additionally, we incorporate an agile approach that includes the rapid utilization of SaaS and support for the implementation of global IT services. 【Support Examples (Partial)】 <Industrial Machinery and Materials> ■ Grand design for DX aimed at realizing data-driven management, formulation of execution plans, and support for the execution of individual DX themes. <Measuring Instruments> ■ Formulation of DX reform concepts involving the establishment of a comprehensive business system infrastructure aimed at expanding the global market and improving overall business efficiency. *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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Our company promotes the formation of a collaborative ecosystem based on mutual trust and respect, to help the Japanese manufacturing industry acquire and enhance two corporate transformation capabilities in a short period of time. We support the development of medium- to long-term strategic and reform plans. We drive emergent business reforms that implement multi-layered changes in operations, organizations, systems, and data to enhance responsiveness to external environmental and market changes. Not only do we promote strategies together with our customers from execution to operational establishment and effect creation, but we also provide methodologies and solutions co-created with our customers amidst numerous manufacturing reforms, thereby realizing business transformation in Japanese manufacturing. 【Support Examples (Partial)】 <Measurement Instruments> ■Grand design for business process reform to achieve medium-term business goals <Inspection Instruments> ■Support for formulating medium-term plans for development organizations to realize management and development strategies <Medical/Industrial Equipment> ■Grand design for achieving medium-term management plans *For more details, please refer to the related links or feel free to contact us.

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"Fleacia CPQ" is a CPQ applicable to mass customization born from actual reforms in Japanese manufacturing. Developed by YDC Co-Creation, which has been engaged in the "mass customization reform" of make-to-order manufacturing for many years, leveraging its experience and know-how. By providing order support functions such as configurators as a SaaS solution, it enables quick implementation with reduced initial investment and risk. Furthermore, we offer training for creating specification selection rules and, as needed, support menus for rule definition by experienced consultants, which can accelerate the startup during implementation. [Features] - Easily integrates with external CRM via standard API - High-performance engine compatible with ETO - Automatically generates model codes - Rule definition without coding *For more details on features and implementation, please feel free to contact YDC Co., Ltd.

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We would like to introduce our "Support for Mass Customization Reform" aimed at expanding global orders. To enhance market responsiveness and improve business efficiency, it is essential for the manufacturing industry to transform into a mass customization model. To achieve this, it is important to transform the sales/design/production model and front-load technical information such as "know-how and insights." At YDC Co-Creation, we provide a grand design service for the overall transformation to a mass customization model, including the formulation of business strategies and business plans. [Features] ■ Formulation of business strategies incorporating scenarios for transformation from quality to quantity ■ Business model design that integrates business/product/intelligence ■ Providing mass customization reform as a one-stop solution *For more details, please refer to the PDF materials or feel free to contact us.

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