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6Fujitsu Limited
…To Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness
■ Regaining Our Position of Strength in Manufacturing
We have been working to improve quality, cost and delivery (QCD) across all our operational areas, from design
and development to production and sales. In fiscal 2004, the benefits of these efforts started to emerge in a
significant way.
In quality, for example, we worked to eliminate the inclusion of any of our principal products in the low- or
deficient-quality product rankings in the industry, and at the same time to expand the number of Fujitsu prod-
ucts recognized as having industry-leading quality. Progress has been good: in the first quarter of fiscal 2003,
18% of our principal products were ranked low or deficient in terms of quality. By the last quarter of fiscal 2004,
this figure had dropped to just 2%, with no products at all in the deficient product category. In the same period,
the ratio of Fujitsu products ranked as industry-leading in terms of quality rose from 59% to 88%.
Our adoption of the Toyota Production System is also leading to benefits in manufacturing innovation. In
the second half of fiscal 2004, we reduced manufacturing lead times for optical transmission systems and mobile
phone base stations by 40% and 38%, respectively, compared to a year earlier. Significant improvements were
also achieved in servers, storage systems, PCs and other products. The benefits of these gains have been three-
fold—lower costs, better quality and more reliable launch dates.
6Fujitsu Limited