Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Hagiwara Electric Group contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a variety of business activities. To this end, we are striving to ensure quality and safety, acquire the latest technologies, and improve our product development and manufacturing technologies in order to further enhance the value of our products and services and to further strengthen our management foundation. While taking responsibility for our own commitments to the future, we will do our best to steadily realize a sustainable society while accurately responding to the demands of our customers and the changing needs of society.

Materiality and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Hagiwara Electric Group aims to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through our efforts on Materiality (issues of significance).

Materiality Main topics Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Improving customer value by responding to technological innovation
  • Contributing to the achievement of an automobile-based society that is secure, safe, and comfortable
  • Contributing to the achievement of customer productivity and safety improvements through advanced information technology
  • Using our business platform and partnerships to take on the challenge of new domains and businesses

Strengthening governance and organizational platforms
  • Strengthening capital policy and financial strategy
  • More comprehensive IR activities (i.e., facilitating stakeholder engagement)
  • Strengthening corporate governance
  • Promoting environmental management

Developing and promoting an environment in which human resources can succeed
  • Encouraging greater employee engagement

Encouraging social contribution activities
  • Expanding social contribution measures and revitalizing activities

Business-Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Topics

Main Topic 1: Contributing to the achievement of an automobile-based society that is secure, safe, and comfortable

The automotive industry, in which the Hagiwara Electric Group is engaged in business, is currently undergoing a once-in-a-century turning point. Amid the trend toward electrification and automated driving of cars, especially in CASE, the device business is actively engaged in sales activities for electronic devices that implement advanced electronics technologies related to electrification and automated driving, as well as verification and development support for in-vehicle embedded software, which is becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. In the solutions business, we are also engaged in activities to provide process support to finished vehicle manufacturers in the area of testing, such as strengthening the prototyping and mass production processes for automobiles, which are becoming increasingly multifunctional and complex. Through both businesses, we will contribute to the realization of a new mobility society that is safe, secure, and comfortable.

Promotion Activities for FY2021–2023

  • Expanding our automotive semiconductor business
  • Driving data services for companies that develop ADAS/self-driving systems
  • Promoting business operations in emerging and developing countries
  • Support for the strengthening of performance evaluation and function evaluation systems
  •  Support for deployment and data integration of overseas production and inspection facilities

Main Topic 2: Contributing to the achievement of customer productivity and safety improvements through advanced information technology

In recent years, there have been growing expectations for the development of smart factories using advanced IT, such as IoT and AI. The Hagiwara Electric Group is promoting the provision of a variety of services and high value-added solutions to help customers transform their manufacturing operations, including productivity improvement through automation, labor saving, and quality improvement, as well as security measures in line with digitalization, against the backdrop of changing work styles, the declining birthrate, and an aging population.

  • Propose industrial machinery and equipment using embedded products and cutting-edge technology trends through embedded solutions
  • Support for the promotion of automation and labor saving in customers’ production processes through FA and testing solutions

Through these activities to provide optimal solutions for the digitalization and software-based transformation of manufacturing sites, we support smart manufacturing and contribute to the achievement of a comfortable digitalized society.

Promotion Activities for FY2021–2023

  • Expanding the use of production-related business systems and core systems
  • Support for building robust IoT security environments in factories
  • Providing our own products that are high in quality, high in durability, and environmentally friendly
  • Creating work safety monitoring solutions at production sites using AI
  • Promoting value-added proposal activities using AI, robots, and AGVs (automated guided vehicles)

Main Topic 3: Using our business platform and partnerships to take on the challenge of new domains and businesses

We are beginning to take on the challenge of new fields by developing applied technologies that utilize the knowledge and expertise of the Hagiwara Electric Group. In addition to providing products that contribute to improving the safety of construction machinery by applying the imaging technology and AI in which our device business excels, in ways that include the installation of high-precision AI camera systems in construction machinery, we will approach the revitalization of industry and the solution of social issues by applying the know-how cultivated in the in-vehicle business.
In the solutions business, we will work to create new services using advanced IT technology that integrates the system integration (SI) and factory automation (FA) domains, and we will promote our DX business in manufacturing.
In promoting these activities, we will respect our partnerships and expand the circle of partnerships while maximizing the provision of value to our customers and contributing to the resolution of social issues and the realization of a prosperous society.

Promotion Activities for FY2021–2023

  • Expanding into new fields through image processing technology (construction equipment and industrial vehicle business)
  • Support for technological development of overseas manufacturers and improving productivity by promoting digitalization at production sites (inventory reduction, improved resource usage efficiency, waste reduction, etc.)
  • Promoting our DX business (promoting our data-driven DX business and creating a next-generation logistics service business)
  • Promoting our data analysis solutions (KSK analytics)
  • Automation solutions using the latest technologies (IoT, AI, and communications)
  • Source: EUREKA, Ltd. promotional video

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