Studist and Takebishi Sign Sales Partnership Agreement for 'Teachme Biz'

Studist, a company dedicated to realizing 'Lean Operations,' has announced a sales partnership agreement with Takebishi for its manual creation and sharing system, 'Teachme Biz.' By combining Takebishi’s robust customer base in the manufacturing industry with Studist’s system, the partnership aims to solve critical challenges on the manufacturing floor, such as skill transfer and labor shortages.

■ Background of the Partnership
In recent years, the declining working-age population due to a falling birthrate and aging society, combined with rising labor costs, has made issues such as the loss of know-how from veteran employees and localized training systems more acute in the manufacturing sector. Many in the field have expressed difficulty in adopting digital transformation (DX) solutions and challenges in verbalizing veteran skills. There is a growing need for intuitive, visually accessible solutions. Takebishi, a comprehensive solutions trading company dealing in industrial electrical goods, electronic parts, HVAC equipment, medical equipment, and telecommunications equipment, entered into this partnership to help address these customer concerns.

■ Overview of the Partnership
Through this partnership, the following three values will be offered to client companies:
1. Promotion of Skill Transfer: By visualizing manufacturing procedures through video, the organization can accumulate and share tacit knowledge as institutional knowledge.
2. Strengthening Response to Labor Shortages: Video manuals enable new employees and international staff to become effective personnel in a short time, significantly reducing the burden on those providing training.
3. Lowering the Hurdles for IT Adoption: With simple operation that allows manuals to be completed just by shooting, even staff unfamiliar with IT tools can create high-quality video manuals immediately.

■ Future Outlook
Both companies will promote Teachme Biz proposals, focusing on the manufacturing industry. Takebishi intends to leverage its trusted relationships with customers, cultivated through FA equipment sales, to prioritize proposals for large and medium-sized enterprises that are interested in digitalization but have yet to take the step toward implementation. Studist continues to expand its reach in the manufacturing industry, centering on Kyoto and Shiga, by actively promoting partnerships with firms rooted in local communities.

■ About Teachme Biz
Teachme Biz is a cloud-based manual creation and sharing system that streamlines documentation. Its AI-driven video editing and automated creation features significantly reduce time spent on documentation. It is used by over 2,300 companies domestically and internationally and has been highly rated as the standard in the manual creation market, securing the No. 1 market share in terms of revenue in several recent surveys.

■ Company Profile
Takebishi, based in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, is a total solution trading company established in 1926. It handles a wide range of products from industrial equipment to social infrastructure systems.