Nippon Zeon Evolves High-Quality, Stable Manufacturing

SOLIZE Ureka Technology Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hiroaki Tsutsumi) and Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Tetsuya Toyoshima) have implemented initiatives aimed at improving and stabilizing the design quality of P&ID (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) design and review operations, which are core to Nippon Zeon's plant design.

Through these initiatives, a system has been established to utilize design know-how and judgment criteria, which were previously dependent on individuals, as reusable knowledge assets for the organization. At the core of this system, they utilized "SpectA DKM," a knowledge management AI solution provided by SOLIZE Ureka Technology.

Background of the Initiative

Nippon Zeon identified ensuring quality in P&ID design and review operations, the core of plant design, as a critical challenge in achieving high-quality and stable manufacturing to support its growth strategy.

P&ID design and review necessitate consideration based on past design experience, review comments, and grounds for judgment. However, this knowledge was dispersed among the experience of veteran engineers and individual documents, leading to differences in judgment criteria among designers and variations in comments from reviewers, which increased confirmation workload and caused rework.

Nippon Zeon believed that it was necessary to establish a system that not only provides an environment for referencing past know-how but also clarifies the criteria and grounds for consideration and judgment, enabling reviews based on knowledge accumulated within the organization. Therefore, together with SOLIZE Ureka Technology, they began to review the design, consideration, and judgment processes themselves.

Content and Results of the Initiative

This initiative emphasized the redesign of the entire consideration and judgment process in P&ID design and review, implementing the following measures:

* Detailed breakdown and reconstruction of the design, consideration, and judgment processes. * Clarification and standardization of judgment criteria and grounds for design and review. * Systematization of knowledge incorporating judgment criteria and grounds.

As a result, designers can now confirm and make judgments on their work while utilizing organizational knowledge, leading to improved and stabilized design quality. Reviewers can also conduct reviews based on organizational knowledge, independent of individual experience or intuition, leading to clearer review perspectives and reduced oversight.

Consequently, they have achieved both a reduction in review workload and an improvement in quality. Furthermore, they have established a business process that allows for continuous accumulation of know-how in conjunction with review operations.

Utilization of SpectA DKM

P&ID design and review projects do not always have high similarity, and there are diverse and extensive points for consideration. By utilizing "SpectA DKM" in this initiative, they created an environment where knowledge required for design consideration can be extracted and referenced at the appropriate time and continuously utilized across the entire project.

Based on the results obtained from this initiative, SOLIZE Ureka Technology will promote the utilization of organizational knowledge and improvement of operational quality not only in P&ID design and review but also in a wider range of design and engineering fields.

Nippon Zeon's Transformation Case Study

https://ureka-technology.solize.com/projects/027

About "SpectA DKM"

"SpectA DKM" is a next-generation knowledge management AI solution specialized in solving challenges in development and design operations. It extracts and reconstructs only the information relevant to business objectives from the vast amount of development and design deliverables generated daily within an organization, enabling cross-organizational knowledge acquisition and problem-solving by utilizing necessary information for "judgment" when and as needed. It is a "wisdom platform" that supports customers' sustained strengthening of competitiveness through de-personalization, productivity improvement, and accelerated technology transfer.

https://ureka-technology.solize.com/service/specta_dkm