A system development company "YE DIGITAL" (Kitakyushu City), a system development company that has raised "DX partner" and continues to grow with product development of business transformation support and reforming the consciousness of employee challenges.Three years after the company name changed from the Yasukawa Information System, we asked Naoto Endo (66), the company, who has gained attention, such as appearing in the Kyushu and popular companies rankings of job hunting students, about his way of thinking about DX and his growth strategy.
インタビューに答える遠藤直人社長＝北九州市―― DX accelerates under the corona, but how do you define the term “DX” again?
"First, let's make sure that" DX "and" IT "are different. Many people are confused. Including new systems and saying," I have been working together with three people so far."I can now do it alone" or "I can shorten the time to wait for customers by 20 minutes" is IT. "
"DX is the management of information. I define it. I can convert all the things that people have repeatedly and rely on intuitions, and that can be estimated and accumulated by accumulation of data.Use artificial intelligence). In the future, "repeated work" will be possible almost by AI. In other words, the "effect" created by converting things that have not been made into information, it is DX. "
――It seems that DX itself increased labor productivity by 20 % in three years.
"What Japanese companies need is" work style reform "and non -manufacturing industries are" improving labor productivity. "It does not lead to the growth of companies and employees. The fact that labor productivity is increased by 20 % means that the work that spent one year ends in about 10 months.It will be. It is possible for employees to be able to receive education during working hours. In other words, the way of working changes. This is also the effect of DX.I think it's decreasing. "
――In order to increase labor productivity, what kind of efforts do you do?
"For example, we have used communication tools to meet the boss once a week in some departments with the boss once a week.It is a transition. (At the time of a meeting), the phenomenon that "8 hours of work per day will not be filled".In this way, we will encourage you to say. In this way, just doing "visualization of work" has increased productivity, has noticed employees, and reduces overtime hours. "
――In the industry where DX is particularly advanced as a DX partner, the industry is particularly advanced.
"It's logistics. While the labor shortage is serious, the handling of EC (electronic commercial transactions) has increased, and it is not possible to respond to inventory management so far, and we need to control shipments using automatic transport.It is gone. Data is necessary for its efficient operation. Data under various conditions such as past seasons, temperature, and time, and derives demand and operation forecasts with AI.It was a long time to shorten the truck waiting time, but the data is being optimized to improve the prediction. "
――The success or failure of DX depends on the use of data.
"That's right. To convert all the communication (information transmission) that you usually do, use the tools well. If you can use it well, the productivity will naturally increase and DX will be successful."
――What are the current status and issues of the digitized bus stop “Smart Bus Stop” business, which won the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications award in 200 years?
"Initially, we started to save labor on the bus timetable work, but the carona evil was exhausted, and demand for smart bus stops was born from the perspective of maintaining public transportation and promoting DX.The movement of the government and local governments to support the introduction is spreading. There is also a movement to convert local railway routes in the deficit into other transportation such as buses, and demand is expected to expand. It is expected to expand.The goal is to accelerate the nationwide expansion from the current 100 units on the order basis and accelerate the nationwide expansion. It is necessary to visualize and disseminate various "effects" at the smart bus stop. Installation.I think it is important to actively convey the effects of doing it. "
Response from the livestock site
――It seems that you are also interested in using ICT (information and communication technology) in agriculture and livestock areas.
"Regarding livestock, I heard about the aging of the aging of livestock farmers and thought about helping. (6-8m high) If the remaining amount of feed in the feed tank can be automatically measured,It was said that the labor load that went up and down the daily tank was reduced, and when our technical unit developed a remaining amount monitoring system, the response from the farms that was verified and the verification was highly resonated, and in March, when full -scale provision began.I received an order of thousands of cars before. "
"That's why the pig house can be used as a DX. Collect data on the content, growth status, and amount of exercise that each pig eats, and grow it into a more delicious pig.The children are in the sustainable (sustainable) education, so if they grow up, they will definitely care about where and what they have eaten during the growth process. For those people, livestock.There will be DX, and Japanese livestock will be differentiated in such a place. "
―― About three years have been made since the company name was changed.The performance seems to be performing well under the corona, but the basic strategy for further growth is
"It was three years of energy to make the most recognized products for the world. The next three years will be" a company that (the product) will be selected by customers. "The system is also being set up. On March 1st, when a new medium -term management plan starts, I will call all employees to "make a bright change in living with digital power!"
Naoto Endo joined Yasukawa Electric Works (currently Yasukawa Electric) in 1976.He moved to the Yoshikawa Information System established in 1978 by the IT department.He has been the director of the Director of Director and the Vice President Executive Officer Service Business Division.The company name change to YE Digital is 2019.Sales were 14.48 billion yen (fiscal year ending February 2001).
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