Oki Electric Industry : Technology Strategy

OKI Group

Innovation and Technology Strategy Meeting

Technology Strategy

Kurato Maeno

Executive Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Head of Technology Division

November 16, 2023

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Background Value Creation StrategySocial Issues and Technological TrendsOKI's Core Competency

Edge Platform AI Data Management Edge Devices

Research and Development

Business Contributions

Summary

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01 Creating Future Businesses: Value Creation Strategy

Supporting OKI's future business with technological innovations that will be a source of enhanced competitiveness

	Internal strengthening		Solving social and
		customer issues
				Business model transformation
	Company-wide innovation activities to			Edge solutions using AI and IoT
	promote DX

Full Participation	Edge Platform
Innovation	• AI Edge Computing
• Yume Pro activities	• Data management
• IMS(ISO56002) adoption and expansion	• Solutions in each area
• Implementation and globalization

Organizational transformation	Creation of new solutions
Productivity				Competitiveness
strengthening					improvement
Operational process transformation	Enhancement of existing solutions
Strengthen Mono-zukuri infrastructure			Products and services to
to become manufacturing platformer			help customers DX
Strengthening			Shift to front-office processing
Mono-zukuri infrastructure			• New IoT Products
• Virtual One Factory			Business process services
• Portability, smart factories
• Environmental measures (ZEB/ZEF)	Business process transformation	• Comprehensive Mono-zukuri services
		• Recurring/ BPO services

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01 Social Issues and Technological Trends

Addressing Growing Social Challenges through Enhancing OKI's "unstoppable / unceasing"

Social Infrastructure with Global Innovation"

OKI's Strengths

Increasingly Serious Social Issues	Advanced "unstoppable / unceasing"	Application of technological innovations to solve issues

Technologies developed through social infrastructure

Safe and convenient social infrastructure

• Accelerated expansion of aging infrastructure
• Traffic concentration and congestion

Conservation of

global environment

• Intensifying disasters
• Responsibility for environmental impact

Job satisfaction and

productivity enhancement

• Declining birthrate and aging population
• Labor shortages

High-quality manufacturing to withstand harsh environments

Technology for stable,

uninterrupted connections

Fast, reliable AI that performs in real-world environments

Operations that increase the

availability of social

infrastructure

AI	Productivity revolution in
intellectual work
Automation	Manpower saving at critical
sites
Mobility x IoT	Moving sensor infrastructure
Smart City	Advances in coupling digital
twin technology with AI
Manufacturing
technology x	Innovative manufacturing
AI x Data

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02 OKI's Core Competency: "Toughness"

Advancing Edge Technology and Expanding Data Utilization with Global Technological

Innovation: Leveraging OKI's Core Competency in "Toughness"

Increasingthevalueprovided byconnectingdata

配送先A

infrastructuredata

Cross-utilizationof

配送先B

倉庫

配送先C

配送先E

配送先D 分割配送

配送先F

配送先G

High-grade network

Large-scale command, control, and centralized systems

5G/Beyond 5G/V2X

•

Traffic probe analysis

•

Delivery route optimization

Disaster prevention and marine IoT infrastructure

•

Infrastructure monitoring

•

Advanced remote and

Comprehensive disaster prevention and watershed flood control

High Reliability

High Availability

high-availability operations

Support mission-critical infrastructure

Non-stop service operation

System Technologies

Toughness

Operational Technologies

AI

High performance in harsh environments

Long-term stable operation on site

Product Technologies

High Quality

High Performance

Component Technologies

Silicon photonics, photoacoustics, wireless, AI chips

Real-timesensing

Edgeadvancement

Ruggedized zero energy IoT technology

(river, mountain, ocean, disaster prevention)

CFB technology enables advancement of

•

High-speed,energy-saving,high-sensitivity analog technology

•

Signal processing and AI technology with high environmental

compound semiconductors

resistance performance

Self serve/automation technology

Ultra low-failure rate, high-quality components

Highly environment-resistant components

(aerospace, aviation, marine, disaster prevention)

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02 Technical Concept: Edge Platform

Enhance edge technology and connect data to increase value,

and reinforce with a view to global expansion

Edge Platform

A solution platform technical concept that accelerates the combination of diverse edge components and data, and speedily solves diverse customer issues

Safe and convenient social infrastructure

Cross-sectionalutilization of infrastructure data Multimodal Data Infrastructure

Expansion of disaster prevention and ocean IoT infrastructure

High-definition networks/Ruggedize technology

Conservation of global

environment

	Job satisfaction and
	productivity enhancement
Toughness
AI	Data
Edge Platform	Management
Self-service and automation of
	real services
	High quality components

Advancement of transportation infrastructure

V2X/Real-time interaction

Edge devices in the real field

Real-timesensing of infrastructure Photonics, sound, radio and vision

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02 Technical Concept: Edge Platform

Enhance edge technology and connect data to increase value,

and reinforce with a view to global expansion

Edge Platform

A solution platform technical concept that accelerates the combination of diverse edge components and data, and speedily solves diverse customer issues

Conservation of

global environment

Safe and convenient	Job satisfaction and
social infrastructure	productivity enhancement

Toughness

	AI
	Data
Edge Platform	Management

Toughness

OKI's core competency of realizing "unstoppable / unceasing" technologies

AI

Strengthen analog and platform technologies by incorporating technological advances in AI

Edge devices in the real field

Data Management Data sharing

Cross-domain use of data generated from various edges

Edge devices Component standardization

Concentrated enhancement of strong components

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02 Strengthening Technologies: AI

Tough AI that is robust in field applications, incorporates technological evolution, and enhances the value provided by social infrastructure

• Building internal environment for integrating GPT-4's technological advancements into overall operations.
• Leveraging Elemental technologies: Analog x AI to Hone the Strengths of Social Infrastructure, and Platform x AI to Expand Value

Digital					OKI's Initiatives 2
Generative				Use of
	AI
Large language model				Platform x AI	quantum
				computing
	(LLM) and				Cross-utilization of infrastructure data
	image generation model		OKI's Initiatives 1		Traffic probing, logistics, disaster
	Building an environment				prevention, simulation, and
				spatiotemporal optimization
	for internal use		Generative	Data
			Advanced infrastructure	AI
			modeling of analog domain		integration
			Optical, acoustic, wireless
					Analog x AI
					Real-time sensing of infrastructure
	Smartphones and tablets		Hardware		Improved performance in conjunction with
Real-World			analog technology operating at the edges of
AI-linked apps		AI edge standardization
		infrastructure

Web and general purpose

Domain-Specific

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02 Technology Enhancement: Data Management

Connecting data generated by edge devices, which are robust in field

applications, and utilizing it across domains to create new value

Improving data access capabilities in the service, operation, and systems integration

Promoting cross-domain data sharing to strengthen and advance social infrastructure comprehensively

Until now

Providing value on a single-operation basis

Digital

Data analysis Data analysis Data analysis

Data/Value

Real-world	Infrastructure Transportation	Disaster
prevention

Vision for the future

Expanding value through a cross-domain architecture

Multimodal, composite, whole-area data analysis

Data	"Connect" "Expand"	Growth of
value

Ocean

Infrastructure Transportation Logistics Infrastructure

Dual use, integration of extraterritorial data, new value creation

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02 Technology Enhancement: Edge Devices

Standardizing tough components and enhancing their value in field applications

Shifting from individual development to standardized development using our robust components Concentrate technological enhancement and increase efficiency of new product development

Promote standardization of robust components centered on the AI edge

Public

Solutions

Enterprise

Solutions

Component

Products

EMS

New Business

Domains

		Optical, Acoustic,
		Wireless
		Components
AI Edge	High-Speed	High-Efficiency
Processing	Mechatronics	Power
board	Components	Components
Centralized		ASIC AI Chips
Controls
	Embedded components
Components

High-End Modules

(Space, medical, semiconductor manufacturing, etc.)

ROMBOX	CFB Technology
Remote control components	(Elemental technology)

Advanced Processing

Energy Conservation

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