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FUJI ELECTRIC JOURNAL 2002 Vol.75-No.6
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Solutions to Business Information Management |
Prospects for Solutions to Business Information Management
Shiro Yokota, Yoshitake Matsuura
Although it is said we are now under the IT depression, investment in information management by enterprises maintains high growth because they stake their survival on the competitive strategy. Fuji Electric has created new values that aim at the overall optimum in business management, focusing on the manufacturing industry, such as processing, assembly, electronics, and fine machining, and the distribution service industry, such as physical distribution, circulation, and foods. This paper describes the framework and features of Fuji Electric's solutions to business information management.
Manufacturing Solutions
Kentaro Yahiro
Manufacturing enterprises strongly require information systems to have sensitivity capable of sharply catching a change in customer needs and flexibility capable of quickly meeting the change. In the present age, we can say "speed" affects the fate of enterprises. On the basis of the technology and know-how of system application to the manufacturing field accumulated many years, utilizing the latest information technology, Fuji Electric offers information systems as manufacturing solutions to solve problems the manufacturing industry is confronting.
Solutions to Logistics
Kazuhito Takahashi, Akihito Narikuni
After the bubble collapsed, the distribution industry in Japan has similarly striven not only for the conventional improvement in the field but also for logistics strategy aiming at the overall optimum by introducing the concept of supply chain management (SCM). Logistics strategy has become realized as an important subject of management strategy. This paper describes the present status of physical distribution, the latest technical trend, and the warehouse management system (WMS) essential to Fuji Electric's logistics strategy, focusing on its features and a method of introducing it.
Solutions to Customer Relationship Management
Hiroshi Oikawa, Takumi Shimizu, Asako Mishima
Many enterprises now forward business development considering customer relationship management (CRM) to be their competence in the 21st century. Fuji Electric early started solving this CRM problem. It offers solutions to CRM utilizing its customer information database structuring technology and system development force, in cooperation with Media Create Co., Ltd. which has ample experiences in call center structuring and SOFTBRAIN Co., Ltd. which developed a powerful sales support (sales force automation: SFA) package and sells it.
Consulting About Business Process Engineering
Hideo Tonohara
For example, diversified market needs, intensified price competitions, and the industry reorganization, there have been rapid changes in the external environment of management surrounding enterprises. It is indispensable conditions for survival to get rid of the old business constitution, make up a competitive business model, and secure profit. This paper in the form of a consulting menu describes an outline of the methodology of making a seamless connection from the visible business technique based on business process modeling to business reformation and IT introduction.
Solutions to Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Haruki Tanaka, Hiroshi Soma, Isao Hisamichi
Under the violent economy, manufacturing companies have shown a remarkable movements to shorten the lead time and reduce the total stock by means of overall optimum production instead of the conventional production attaching importance to each productivity. This paper describes the importance of (1) business reformation, (2) the completion of the resource information infrastructure, and (3) the thought of supply chain management, for realizing the above-mentioned, and introduces Fuji Electric's solution menu for them. In addition, the latest trend is described with an example of the system supplied to MORITA Corp.
Solutions to Manufacturing Execution Systems
Shuushi Morimoto, Masafumi Nakagawa, Makoto Kubo
As the management reformation of the manufacturing industry was promoted in a worldwide scale in the 1990s and it has become indispensable to meet global standardization, the efficiency improvement and speeding up of management by directly linking the management and the manufacturing field have been required. This paper describes Fuji Electric's solutions to the manufacturing execution system (MES) to realize the concept of "manufacturing fields made visible" based on the seamless linking of information on a whole company scale, and in addition, various examples of solutions and future trends of MES solution development.
Solutions to Digitized Factory Management
Takashi Tsuda, Naoki Azumaya, Kenichi Kurotani
Because of the shortening of the product lifecycle and the increase in multi-kind production, the manufacturing industry has more required flexible systems ranging from designing to producing a new product. This paper describes an outline of Fuji Electric's solutions for sale that support the process of preparation work for production from product planning and designing to the start of production, aiming at improvements in product quality, production equipment quality, work quality in practice, and lead time in practice.
Solutions to Energy Management
Hiroshige Mizutani, Masashi Fuse, Donghui Xiang
The world faces environmental and energy saving problems and each enterprise is required to take effective measures, including reduction in energy consumption. Fuji Electric in the early stages developed business related to environment and reduction in energy consumption. We have positively fused conventional technology with new one and have proposed various solutions to efficient utilization of overall energy ranging from energy measurement to environmental preparation for integrated management, the introduction of clean energy supply equipment, and the operation of utilities. This paper introduces Fuji Electric's solutions to energy management, citing an example of introduction.
Solutions to Manufacturing Distribution
Kazuhiko Fukuda, Satoru Mitake, Kentaro Funato
As information on the supply and demand forecast of material suppliers and customers has been held in common, there is a demand for more carefully thought-out manufacturing field systems in addition to the former endeavor goals in the factory, i.e. reduction in lead time for production and stocks under manufacture. Regarding the rationalization of manufacturing systems and the unification of information to be carried out in the flow of designing, procurement, manufacturing, inspection, and shipping by the designing and manufacturing sections, this paper describes an outline of Fuji Electric's solutions to manufacturing distribution.
Solutions to Hygienic Management in the Food Industry
Kazuhito Takahashi, Yoshinori Ryuzaki, Naohiro Noda
Recently, problems of microbial contamination have increased in many fields such as foods, drinking water, and sewage. Because the conventional method that requires cultivation takes more than 24 hours for inspection, a simple and speedy measuring method has been desired. Fuji Electric is developing a viable cell sensor (a tentative name) in which viable cells are given fluorescent labeling by enzymatic activity and the number of cells measured by the automatic apparatus within one hour. This paper describes the verification result of the practicability of the viable cell sensor in comparison with the conventional method. It also describes various solutions supposed to be brought by utilizing the viable cell sensor, such as reduction in stocks, next-generation hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP), and a reused water management system.
Mobile Solutions Supporting Portal Site Construction
Makoto Nishimura, Tomoji Kanno, Kengo Fukushima
With the rapid diffusion of mobile devices typically represented by portable telephones, the environment of wireless networks has more and more improved. Also the broadband Internet network has advanced in parallel and its application to business is actively studied. This paper describes a general idea of mobile solution mounting in constructing a business information portal site capable of making a connection with the existing basic systems, and also, examples of mobile application to Fuji Electric's various solutions for offices, workshops, and autonomies.
Fuji Electric Group's IT Strategy
Takeya Fukumoto
This paper describes "the Guideline for planning the medium-term IT strategy and the method of developing the IT medium-term scheme" to support Fuji Electric's medium-term management vision. From among the important themes of the IT medium-term scheme that constitute Fuji Electric's business platform, brief descriptions are given to the following: customer relationship management, business management, the integrated back office, supply chain management, the order receiving and production ordering system, the expansion of the group network, and software property control. The internal IT system, an important tool for management and business operation, can satisfactorily be utilized for customer's similar needs.
