DENSO Corporation hosted DENSO Tech Links Tokyo #5, with the main theme for the fifth incarnation of the event being 'DENSO's In-house Software Development Starting from Its Factories.'

DENSO's factories, which have manufactured 12 billion automotive components of 44,000 different types, are supported by a wide range of IoT technologies. Technical advisor Takuya Oikawa and three other DENSO employees held presentations exploring what goes on behind the scenes of the company's IoT technologies. This presentation featured Dan Yakabe, Yuta Kuroda and Hiroo Sawada from the DENSO Production Eng. Div. Factory IoT Development Team, who explained why, by whom, and in what ways they were moving development of factory IoT software in-house while providing specific case examples.

Why DENSO Pursued In-house Software Development Starting from Its Factories

Dan Yakabe: Hello everyone, my name is Dan Yakabe and I work for the DENSO Production Eng. Div.

The Factory IoT Platform we are creating is used to collect data on equipment, people and other aspects of factory operations provided by various devices, then convert this data into valuable information and provide it to users through applications.

This is our in-house system, and today I'm going to talk about why DENSO is pursuing in-house software development starting from its factories, and adopting the 'Make It Your Own' approach. Yuta Kuroda will then explain who is carrying this out, and Hiroo Sawada will tell us how it is being carried out.

But first, allow me to begin with a brief personal introduction. In 2002, I joined a systems integrator company where I developed smart meter systems, HEMS, and other M2M systems. Later on, I made a mid-career change and joined one of the nation's biggest banks where I developed security-related systems and APIs (application programming interfaces) for Fintech companies. My experience developing M2M technologies, security systems and APIs proved to be very useful when developing DENSO's Factory IoT Platform for 130 different factories.

Manufacture of 44,000 Different Automotive Components

Yakabe: Let's begin by talking about the development concept for our Factory IoT Platform. We often talk about CASE (connected, autonomous, shared and electric). Times have changed, from a focus on mass-producing high-quality products to an era in which organizations are required to tie together both equipment and software and provide services at increasingly rapid speeds in order to stay competitive. It is said that the automotive industry undergoes a once-in-a-century transformation.

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