Top Message
We tend to be described as "a small but unique company in proactively diversifying its business". We started business as a manufacturer of physical and chemical equipment, then diversified it to provide repair service works for cargo handling equipment, and eventually evolved it in hydraulic jack business under its own brand – EAGLE. Meanwhile, our original business, in due course, developed to be the stainless metal sheet processing business. For the last 10 years, we have been strengthening our design and production to order based on our elemental technology of the hydraulic and sheet metal processing. We launched a new division by the name of Engineering and Service Business to take care of this new business.
When we look back our corporate history, we do recognize that a DNA that encourages us to explore new business has been succeeded through the changes of era and of management environment. To meet new customer expectations coming from the environmental changes, we have been exchanging ideas with customers and suppliers, and consistently and patiently working out new value. Now we are in a transitional period, which is represented by what we called "Society5.0" or "connected Industries". In the new era, almost all the things and events are "connected" together - a time when working styles are also being diversified. Under such a new environment, we run our company with the team spirit by placing people in the center, connect people with the same vision both internally and externally and play our role for the society through manufacturing (Monozukuri).
Team Management
What kind of team management we are aiming for?
Our management work on solving issues by gathering individual viewpoints from the operating officers for sales, engineering, manufacturing, and administrative departments and through their close communication. We also place the value on what we discovered through those discussions. This is because our business environment is changing too fast nowadays for anybody to forecast correctly and therefore, it makes better sense to keep up with the changes by gathering multiple talents and energy throughout the corporate instead of single leader's top down view, experience and knowledge.
We place importance on teamwork in the workplace as well. For every business task, we have a team of two or more people in charge of it. A team shares a common goal, discusses on how to approach the goal and acts together by clarifying roles and responsibilities in the team. Act first, review the result through discussion and then proceed again by correcting the course. Our teams share experiences both success and failure, and learn from them. We believe that pleasure of contributing to someone enriches and changes personal lives. Lehman shock, The Great East Japan Earthquake... We were able to overcome those crises because we were a team. The confidence that such experiences have been boosting our unity is our strength.
Visualization and IT utilization of operations to create the foundation of team management
In the past decade, we observed big changes in our daily life and work caused by the internet society development, and at the same time, the industrial structure is also experiencing huge changes. The speed of those changes is further accelerated, and it is nothing strange that a whole new and unimaginable world emerges in 20 years.
Our company is heavily promoting "visualization of business processes" and "information sharing through the utilization of IT" for our employees in Tokyo, Fukushima and Osaka to have them feel that they are "working together". Using the "Business Process Reference Model", all the employees participate in creating a smooth flow of work, building the mechanism under which all the employees understand what to do individually and how their individual work are connected to the entire corporate activity and maintaining/improving it.
We also participate in the »Industrial Value Chain Initiative (President: Yasuyuki Nishioka, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Hosei University) as a managing company. Here, we have discussions about many specific problem-solving methods for the manufacturing industry to effectively utilize digital technology and data for production innovation and business transformation, and we learn “IT KAIZEN methods” such as IVI Smart Thinking. We put them into practice in building internal systems.
Our "team management" is based on a "human-centered digital platform" that allows you to see the whole picture and organically connect the roles of each person in charge.
