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Segment Information
Yoshinobu Morishita
Senior Managing Officer
Company President,
Industrial Automation Company
What’s New
Business Strategy and Outlook for Fiscal 2010
Strengthen products and services, anticipating
automation control needs in emerging economies
and advanced economies
In the IAB segment, we forecast a year-on-year rise of
31.4% to ¥271.0 billion in net sales, and a 187.8% increase
to ¥40.0 billion in operating income in fiscal 2010. (We fore-
cast a 210.8% rise in operating income before the
subtraction of management guidance fees, to ¥43.2 billion
in fiscal 2010.)
IAB is focusing on three areas to meet the need for con-
trol devices in the rapidly growing emerging economies and
for control devices for such fields as safety, the environ-
ment and energy applications.
[1] Fortify the control equipment components business
IAB will further reinforce its world’s leading lineup of con-
trol equipment. The segment is quickly expanding its range
of products to meet the various demands of developed
countries and the rapidly growing BRIC markets. IAB is
also enhancing the coordination of its sales and service
activities between countries with the aim of expanding its
share of the global market.
[2] Strengthen the machine control business
IAB will leverage its sensing and control technologies to take
the initiative in introducing to the global market a steady
stream of the industry’s leading ultra-high-speed, high-
precision machine automation products, and contribute to
product creation innovations in the manufacturing industry.
[3] Respond to new and emerging demand
IAB aims to be a continuous source of new proposals con-
cerning production site safety, manufacturing, and the
environment, and will work with customers and society to
explore new products and applications that can be used in
the development of optimal control technologies for the
production sites of the future.
The IAB segment is enhancing its products and serv-
ices from the customer’s perspective throughout its
worldwide operations, encompassing production, sales,
development, and all departments, to solidify its status as
the leading partner in the manufacturing industry.
A new generation of environmental
equipment for visualizing the manu-
facturing environment and saving
energy
Air Thermo
Sensor
Electrostatic
Sensors
Air Clean
Unit
Air Particle
Sensor
World’s largest lineup of control equipment
Proximity
Sensors
Digital
Panel
Indicators
Programmable
Logic
Controllers
Power
Supply
Units
Inverters
Servomotors
and Servo
Drivers
Photoelectric
Sensors
Temperature
Controllers
Vision
Sensors
Creating the industry’s highest-level network of
safe, ultra-high speed, and high-precision machine
control equipment
Servomotors
and Servo
Drivers
Vision
Sensors
Programmable Logic
Controller and Master
Safety Network
Controllers
Emergency
Shutdown Switch
Safety Sensors
In the semiconductor and flat panel display industries, the rapidly
growing solar battery industry, the rechargeable battery industry, and
other industries reliant on factory clean rooms, it is absolutely essen-
tial to monitor the volume of airborne particles (foreign objects) and
settling dust and to measure static electricity and temperature
changes and other conditions affected by production processes to
ensure that product quality is maintained at high levels.
IAB’s development and sales of a steady succession of products
in its environmental equipment series assist clients in the mainte-
nance and enhancement of product quality using sensors to provide
constant monitoring to “visualize” the required manufacturing envi-
ronment conditions for all types of production processes.
In addition, IAB additionally offers the “Wave Inspire” environ-
ment visualization software that enables clients to collect and manage
multipoint and dispersed data within the manufacturing environment.
This data can then be used to establish optimal settings, such as for
fan filter air flow volumes and air conditioner temperatures, which
contribute to energy saving at the worksite.