19 June 2026

FY2026 Company-wide DX Conference and DX Awards

The Company-wide DX (Digital Transformation) Conference was held on May 26th. To mark the fifth year of this conference, a new ceremony called the Sumitomo Electric Group DX Awards was inaugurated, in which awardees had the opportunity to give a detailed presentation on their respective initiatives.

In our organization, the DX concept is interpreted as the use of digital technologies to accelerate or deepen efforts that are taking place across the Sumitomo Electric Group to improve and strengthen ourselves on aspects of SEQCDD (safety, environment, quality, cost, delivery, and development). A committee that I chair called the DX Promotion Committee established the Company-wide DX Plan, which each department referenced during the formulation of their own DX plans. As many departments have been steadily achieving results with their plans, we had many successful activities to consider for the DX Awards. After much deliberation, ten especially innovative and exemplary projects were selected for recognition.

The winning projects covered a variety of themes, such as data analysis to reduce logistics costs, sales process innovation to increase sales, and greater precision in production planning to shorten manufacturing lead times. We also saw, once again, the progress being made in AI utilization. This included applications such as AI that instantly optimizes the settings of production equipment and the use of materials informatics to accelerate the development of strategic products.

It’s my hope that each department, inspired by the successful work that was presented at the conference, will actively take on the challenge of executing plans that address issues of even greater importance.

On the conference stage
On the conference stage
With the DX Award recipients
With the DX Award recipients

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