Sharing Perspectives through Data Utilization Workshop: Supporting Rinnai Corporation's Oguchi Plant in its DX Challenge
Canon IT Solutions Inc. announced that its data utilization workshop was adopted by Rinnai Corporation's Oguchi Plant to support its digital transformation (DX) efforts. The workshop aims to help Rinnai's indirect operations identify business challenges and leverage data for efficient problem-solving, addressing future labor shortages and establishing a common understanding for DX.
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Canon IT Solutions Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Hiroshi Suyama; hereinafter "Canon ITS"), a member of the Canon Marketing Japan Group, announced that its data utilization workshop has been adopted by Rinnai Corporation's Oguchi Plant (Headquarters: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture; President and Representative Director: Hiroyasu Naito; hereinafter "Rinnai").
**Background**
While DX is progressing in manufacturing sites, in indirect operations, the perception of tasks and awareness of issues often differ among individuals, making it difficult to align the direction of data utilization and improvement as an organization. At Rinnai, anticipating future labor shortages, there was a growing need to establish a common understanding at the operational level regarding "what constitutes a problem and what goals are to be achieved" prior to tool implementation.
Against this backdrop, Canon ITS provided workshop-style DX support, using indirect operations as a theme. This involved on-site members identifying business challenges themselves, organizing the structure of these challenges, and then considering approaches to data utilization.
**Features**
* Training conducted using the customer's actual business challenges.
* Participants can acquire a mindset for efficiently leading to appropriate solutions by utilizing data for on-site issues.
* Feedback provided by data analysis experts.
* Details of Rinnai's implementation case study can be found here: https://www.canon-its.co.jp/solution/industry/cross-industry/case/dmp-04
**Outlook**
Rinnai plans to continue improving indirect operations, not treating this initiative as a one-off measure. Starting with the themes set in the workshop, they will embark on specific measures, accumulate successful cases, and aim to develop reproducible improvement methods.
Furthermore, by transforming tasks that previously relied on individual experience and intuition into a format where anyone can make decisions and execute based on data and a common language, they intend to build an operational foundation capable of responding to future personnel constraints. DX is expected to become established as an extension of daily improvement activities, rather than a special initiative.
**Related Solutions**
**Data Management Service**
To flexibly respond to changes in consumer needs and the business market, "data utilization" aligned with objectives and the personnel to carry it out are crucial. Canon ITS supports the realization of customers' DX by building a system that consistently supports data preparation, accumulation, and utilization, and by providing support including the development of digital talent capable of analyzing data and deriving insights (essential discoveries and insights). By offering "valuable data" and "personnel who can leverage data (digital talent)" as a 'Data Management Service,' Canon ITS supports customers' DX realization.
https://www.canon-its.co.jp/solution/industry/cross-industry/dmp
**Background**
While DX is progressing in manufacturing sites, in indirect operations, the perception of tasks and awareness of issues often differ among individuals, making it difficult to align the direction of data utilization and improvement as an organization. At Rinnai, anticipating future labor shortages, there was a growing need to establish a common understanding at the operational level regarding "what constitutes a problem and what goals are to be achieved" prior to tool implementation.
Against this backdrop, Canon ITS provided workshop-style DX support, using indirect operations as a theme. This involved on-site members identifying business challenges themselves, organizing the structure of these challenges, and then considering approaches to data utilization.
**Features**
* Training conducted using the customer's actual business challenges.
* Participants can acquire a mindset for efficiently leading to appropriate solutions by utilizing data for on-site issues.
* Feedback provided by data analysis experts.
* Details of Rinnai's implementation case study can be found here: https://www.canon-its.co.jp/solution/industry/cross-industry/case/dmp-04
**Outlook**
Rinnai plans to continue improving indirect operations, not treating this initiative as a one-off measure. Starting with the themes set in the workshop, they will embark on specific measures, accumulate successful cases, and aim to develop reproducible improvement methods.
Furthermore, by transforming tasks that previously relied on individual experience and intuition into a format where anyone can make decisions and execute based on data and a common language, they intend to build an operational foundation capable of responding to future personnel constraints. DX is expected to become established as an extension of daily improvement activities, rather than a special initiative.
**Related Solutions**
**Data Management Service**
To flexibly respond to changes in consumer needs and the business market, "data utilization" aligned with objectives and the personnel to carry it out are crucial. Canon ITS supports the realization of customers' DX by building a system that consistently supports data preparation, accumulation, and utilization, and by providing support including the development of digital talent capable of analyzing data and deriving insights (essential discoveries and insights). By offering "valuable data" and "personnel who can leverage data (digital talent)" as a 'Data Management Service,' Canon ITS supports customers' DX realization.
https://www.canon-its.co.jp/solution/industry/cross-industry/dmp