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Robot Revolution Initiative
Status quo and Activities
2016-5-23 RRI Secretary General Tomoaki Kubo
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Establishment of Robot Revolution Initiative (RRI)
The office of prime minister : http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/97_abe/actions/201505/15robot.html
May, 2014 Prime minister Abe stated that “Japan will make a new industry revolution by robot” at the OECD council at ministerial level. Sep, 2014 Established “the robot revolution realization council” in the Office of the Prime Minister Jan, 2014 Published “the robot new strategy” (Japan economic revival headquarters), stated establishment of RRI. May, 2015 RRI Organizational Meeting with 226 members (associations, companies, individuals), 400 members currently(15,April.)
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Constitution of RRI
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RRI Working Groups (current)
Manufacturing Business Revolution through IoT
RRI
Promotion of Robot Utilization in Society
Robot Innovation
Manufacturing Business Reformation by IoT, M2M, BigData, etc.
Designing organization or mechanisms of; Matching of user and provider, Local supporting organization, Education, Regulatory reformation, Sharing of best practices
Technology Development, Rule Preparation, International robot competition.
- Breaking down the challenges to make action.
- Summarized proposals for each topic - Summarized a guideline for robot implementation into society
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- Started on 15th, July - 147 members
Manufacturing business companies(Electric, Electronics, Machinery, Automobile, etc.), IT technology companies, Trading, Insurance, Academia, Industry associations, etc.), including German companies (Siemens, SAP, Beckhoff, TÜV Rheinland, TÜV SÜD, Bosch Packaging Technology).
- Co-chair Mr. Masayuki Yamamoto, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Mr. Kiyoshi Mizukami, Hitachi, Ltd.
WG “Manufacturing Business Revolution through IoT”
Started with information sharing, and - Published the interim report on challenges - Started small group workings on detailed topics
( Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd. are going to participate in the WG of PFI4.0 )
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Robot Revolution Initiative's Working Group on Manufacturing Business Reformation
through IoT
Interim Report (Jan. 2016)
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1. Total Life Cycle of Products
R&D, Product development and design, Manufacturing preparation, Manufacturing, Operations and maintenance service
2. From Field to Board
Material SCM, Manufacturing, Manufacturing outsourcing, Product SCM, Tools, Equipment(equipment, machinery, sensors, actuators, controllers, manufacturing execution systems [MES] and enterprise resource planning [ERP])
3. New services
Including those concerning different industries
Scope of consideration (a) - operational reforms
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Scope of consideration (b) - inter-company reforms
From purchasing and joint development (Traditional relationship) to Involved in open innovation, Connected to end customers and different sectors via interactive networks (Ecosystem)
Componentsmanufacture
Producergoods
manufacture
Components manufacture
Producergoods
manufacture
Value (includes service) provider
End customer,consumer
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Scope of consideration (c) - reforms associated with new value created by IoT
Build a platform to create new, higher value by linking equipment and machines of different companies, related materials and processes, as well as communities of relevant people
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Expected background problems①Competition with global companies
Growing more intense year by year ②Globalization of the Japanese manufacturing industry
Expand production bases, production localization, expand business flexibly and dynamically such as partnership promotion
③Use of the IoTNeed to make full use of the IoT, so that they can settle issues facing the manufacturing industry through the creation of new values and businesses
④Structural problems The vertical integration model may lose its advantage in some industries.Because the modularization associated with IT and the IoT now progresses and tacit knowledge is increasingly converted into explicit knowledge, helping promote the horizontal specialization model.
⑤Social problems Depopulation of worker, and rural areas. Deindustrialization associated with the globalization of companies. Lack of successors, skill inheritance.
⑥Use of open innovation (focusing on the core competence) Expansion of business area leads to increase cost by independent management
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How Japanese manufacturing industry should be in 2030
①Fusion of the IoT and Japan's strengths, Spread of IT and the IoT among middle-ranking firms and small and midsize companies
②Radical improvement in production efficiency, Maintenance of quality improvement processes (process reforms)
③Manufacturing more deeply rooted in the market (business reforms)
④Manufacturing increasingly becoming a service industry (business reforms)
⑤Creation of new businesses encompassing different industries (business reforms)
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Common problems for all industries
(1) Open innovation
(2) Efforts toward standardization and security improvements
(3) Assistance for small and midsize companies and firms that have difficulty proceeding with the IoT
(4) Changes in awareness among executives and reforms in corporate behavior
(5) Human resources development, Measures to deal with the dwindling birthrate and aging of society
( Identified based on the results of questionnaires )
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Topics to be discussedStandardization of manufacturing process, collaboration of intra / inter companies
Item examples
-Standardization of industrial machine communication interface - Enable networking of manufacturing floor without additional cost.
-Management model for operation control cooperation - Enable to connect operation control tools each other and to manufacturing floor without additional cost
-Standardization of introduction of operation control collaboration systems
- Supply chain collaboration - Identify information to be shared between supply chain, connect between companies to reduce lead time of manufacturing
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IoT Acceleration Lab
IVI(Industrial Value chain Initiative)
RRIRobot Revolution Initiative
◆ Industries, Government, Academia◆ All areas (Manufacturing, Mobility, Healthcare, Energy, Agriculture, Fintech, Tourism etc)◆ Business Matching, Financial Support, Regulatory Reform
◆ Industries, Academia◆ Manufacturing
Bridged by METI*
◆ Industries, Government, Academia ◆ Manufacturing ◆ Creating Use Cases
Sub WG for industrial machineries
Sub WG for SMEs
WG1: WG for manufacturing business revolution through IoT
WG2: WG for Promotion of Robot Utilization in Society
WG3: WG for Robot Innovation*Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Promoting Formation
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Predictive maintenance, Maintenance, Operation supporting services by remote observation and control
- Obstructive factors for realization - Modeling of machine tools - Modeling of relevant operations - Guideline and interface for data collection - Proposal of the "smart factory"
Improvement of the Machining Process Productivity Based on the Machine Tools as the Core
The Industrial Machinery Steering Committee
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IoT is not a too that is "Expensive and only for large scale enterprises". There are usages which fit to each enterprise's situations.
On the other hand, all SMEs should note that, in the near future, reliability of enterprise's operation process could be evaluated by introduction of IoT.
Supporting SME to utilize IoT
SMEs Steering Committee
- Sharing best practices - Estimation method of investment effect - Cultivation of system integrators - Activation of IoT introduction consultant - Development and uniform management of IoT tools - Clarifying of rules such as attribution of collected data - And others
Action Items
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- Low product price, low equipment cost - Apparatus industry ( Primary processing such as flour milling, mass production as secondary processing) - Seasonality in raw materials procurement - Low storage stability of materials - High level of safety is required
- Increase process repeatability by digitizing the worker's skill - Create new connection between maker and market by IoT - Cause-analysis and prevention of process abnormality - Productivity improvement - Optimization of logistics and ordering using weather and event info.
Sub WG on IoT in food manufacturing industry
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- Shortage of robot system or IT system integrators
- Lack of standard process for introducing robot or IT system
- Multi work layers with different feature
- FA devices, - Inter device communication, - Data acquisition, - IT/FA collaboration, - Smart factory
- Lack of total system integrator
Sub WG on IT-FA system integrator cultivation
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- Grab status of manufacturing floor by real-time
- Transfer market demand to manufacturing floor
- Information system robust to reconfiguration of manufacturing equipment
- Optimal allocation of data processing (cloud, edge)
- System construction technology that enables collaboration of manufacturing floor and information system
(modeling of manufacturing floor from view point of information system)
Sub WG on IT-FA System Integration by digital collaboration
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- Get common understanding of the strength and weakness of Japanese manufacturing companies
- Build a analysis frame work for companies to plan IoT utilizing strategy by considering their strength and weakness
- Build a decision frame of competition / cooperation to make the best use of strength through case studies
Sub WG on Enhancement of Japan's strength
In introducing IoT, current strength of companies should be considered
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Oct. 1st, 2015 Meeting at Berlin Oct. 28th, 2015 Meeting at Tokyo Feb. 15th, 2016 Symposium at Tokyo May 27th, 2016 G/J Economic Forum at Hannover Current : Discussing collaboration item and scheme
Communication with BMWi and Plattform I4.0
At the Plattform, Berlin, Oct. 1st, 2015
International Symposium, Tokyo, Feb 15th, 2016
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with Mr. Banthien, Secretary General of Plattform Industrie 4.0,
28th Apr.2016
Agreed to cooperate with Plattform I4.0
Mutually participate in working groups, workshops,or common activities of each party.
Cooperation Fields(Listed in the joint statement by the government ministries)