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KIMOTO Workflow Reform vol.26-2
Striving to Become a 100-Year-Old Enterprise, We are Advancing Workflow Reform.
Work Style Reform in Development to Quadruple New Product Output
We will explain the development work style reform "JX (Job Transformation)".
The quality of collaboration determines the overall development capability.
The "4x output" targeted by JX cannot be achieved by mindset alone.
The key is to simultaneously enhance design and experimentation capabilities, speed up decisions, and reduce rework.
Development staff concentrate on design, while the factory side steadily runs experiments.
When these roles mesh well, development naturally progresses more smoothly.
JX is not a reform that pushes through by increasing headcount.
It is an initiative to enhance the overall development capability by improving the quality of collaboration among all people involved in a single development theme.
Making Know-How 'Everyone's Property': Information Becomes an Asset
The more specialization advances, the more difficult information sharing becomes.
When know-how resides only in someone's head, it causes delays in handovers, slows decision-making, and leads to repeating the same trial and error.
That is why at JX, we have been recording experimental and evaluation information in a 'form understandable to anyone' and establishing a state where those who need it can access it when necessary.
It may seem unremarkable, but this is where it makes a difference.
Taking Development a Step Further with Data, AI, and Automation
The next step is to advance the utilization of data one stage further.
By utilizing digital tools such as AI, we are spreading veteran developers' know-how to younger staff, gradually advancing the automation of experiments, and entrusting repetitive simple tasks
to robots, allowing people to return their time to design and analysis.
Rather than trying to perfect everything at once, we refine things gradually in line with feedback from the field.
We will steadily build up from what we can do.
By connecting design, experimentation, data, and automation, we achieve more reliable speed.
Through its development workflow reform "JX," KIMOTO will deliver new products to society.
2026.06.26