Social Issues
Like many developed countries, Japan faces declining birthrates and an aging population, leading to an increasingly apparent decline in the size of its workforce and a resulting shortage of workers in recent years. Over the near term, Japanese corporations are expected to face more profound difficulties in maintaining their operations as burdens grow on their existing employees. These issues will also pose greater obstacles for the general public to obtain lifestyle necessities and take advantage of the services they need. This means that labor shortages are a major challenge that not only impair the health and safety of workers, but can also broadly lead to lifestyle difficulties.
The Unique Fukunishi Value Proposition
At Fukunishi Electrical, we weave together technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide integrated solutions to these challenges. One example is our combination of automated transport vehicles and remote control systems to help in the construction of smart factories. These technologies are also starting to be adopted in distribution warehouses, which, despite their growing needs in recent years, are facing more pronounced worker shortages. We also support other efforts to increase efficiency and reduce manpower by combining inventory management systems and management tag readers.
Building these kinds of mechanisms not only helps to make up for shortfalls in labor, but benefits workers through physically separating them from hazardous tasks, improving health and safety in the workplace.
Our strength at Fukunishi Electrical is the breadth of specialized commercial offerings that go beyond the scope of a single focus area or manufacturer and how we combine these into optimized solutions for customers across many industries. Thanks to our long track record, we possess sufficient insights to suggest precise combinations of products from various manufacturers to not only solve the problems currently faced by our customers, but to also discover and provide optimal solutions to potential issues they may face going forward.
