Digital Innovation Center

Promoting DX (digital transformation) to solve social issues and contribute to unrivaled quality

• We are deepening digital technologies as the center of the Furukawa Electric Group.
• We are developing digital technologies which contribute to the achievement of the SDGs and the resolution of social issues.
  Specifically,
  　- We are creating new businesses in the integrated fields of information, energy and mobility.
  　- We are innovating in manufacturing technologies (MONOZUKURI) and realize unrivaled quality by combining digital technologies and the four core technologies of Furukawa Electric (metals, polymers, photonics and high frequency electronics).
• We are developing AI and IoT human resources those able to succeed across the Furukawa Electric Group.

In a future society, “products” and “the right experience for the customer” will be connected strongly by data and new values will be created. For example, autonomous driving, an integrated area of information and mobility, is becoming a major trend.
The digital technologies of AI and IoT are essential for realizing the creation of new businesses that solve social issues and the innovation in MONOZUKURI for the society. For example, high reliability and quality of products based on AI and IoT technologies are essential in order to use “unmanned, remote and automatic control” at ease.
In order to strengthen digital technologies as basic technologies, we will establish a cross-sectoral organization integrating R&D, MONOZUKURI, ICT strategy and marketing divisions, and reinforce our number of AI human resources above 100 people by fiscal year 2021.
Also, we will combine digital technologies with the strengths of the Furukawa Electric Group
　・to realize DX including remote and automated control based on the detection of abnormalities using AI and IoT,
　・and the digitization and digitalization of data related to social infrastructure
such as roads and electric lines.