Machines and Materials
Frontline Topics
- Recurring business
- Shift from a transient product offering to a model of continuous value provision through the digitalization of products and processes.
- Materials informatics
- Next-generation standards in materials development using AI, machine learning, statistics, etc. to ensure superiority against material obsolescence and the emergence of new forces.
Issues
- Green business
- How to contribute to the realization of decarbonizing society by creating environmental products and services, in addition to promoting the decarbonization of their own value chains.
- CPS
- How to achieve a drastic evolution of manufacturing processes toward low-carbon society by reproducing and simulating manufacturing processes in a virtual space using AI.
- Supply chain resilience
- Managing various risks, such as macroeconomic changes and pandemics, to ensure both resilience and management efficiency.
- Circular materials
- How to develop and utilize new bio-materials and artificial materials with toward regeneration and reuse, rather than staying with renewable, natural resources.
- Open consortiums
- How to establish open collaboration across geographic regions, industries, and competitors to develop new materials and establish a position in the supply chain.
Cases
- Strategy - New Business -
- Launching a recurring business
We categorized possible recuriing business models, plotted all of client's businesses by category, and evaluated their applicability of digital transformation.
- Digital - Smart Factory -
- Drawing up a roadmap for smart factory realization
We defined future-state smart factories and its roadmap, researched for technology trends, and estimate financial impact from AI/IoT utilization.
- Operation - Logistics -
- Automating operations in logistics centers
To materialize the concept of the new logistics center, we defined the objectives and created a plan for introducing logistics robots, and incorporated the plan into the digitalization plan for the new logistics center.
- Strategy - Global Strategy -
- Developing a strategy for entering the Indian market
We identified 3 main scenarios for entering Indian consumer electronics market, where competiton is very keen due to its huge market size and low barriers to entry
- Strategy - New Business -
- Drawing up supply and demand scenarios for low-carbon materials
We developed supply and demand scenarios for each low-carbon material required by each industry, with taking into account the carbon neutrality goals for each industry, and identify business opportunities.
- Strategy - Business Reform -
- Developing a medium-term business plan for the timber business
In response to rising demand for building infrastructure facilities in China and other countries, we strengthened supply chain and other measures to increase profits in the timber business.
