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ANNUAL REPORT 2011 26
Ricoh’s R&D in leading-edge technologies:
Striving to meet future customer needs
imagio MP C5000it
Environment
Imaging &
devices
Printing
Office
solutions
Catalyst for change in customers’ work styles at all times
Open innovation utilizing a wide
range of technological resources
Continuous investment in R&D
toward new value creation
Since its founding in 1936, Ricoh has been bringing innovations to customers’ work styles. Centering
on imaging equipment, we create and deliver new and greater value to customers through our products,
such as Ricopy 101, an office-use copier launched in 1955 that could be easily used by anyone;
RIFAX 600 S, introduced in 1974, which became the world’s first high-speed office facsimile machine;
and imagio MF 200, a digital copier released in 1996 fueled the widespread use of digital models.
Ricoh’s R&D activities focus on four priority
areas: environment, printing, office solutions
and imaging & devices. We have consistently
invested five to six percent of annual sales in
R&D in order to create new customer value and
increase our competitiveness.
Ricoh’s copiers and MFPs, our flagship
products, represent the culmination of
technologies we have developed in various
fields, such as electronic photography,
image processing, chemistry, optics,
electricity, networking and software. By
integrating newly developed technologies
into these technological foundations that we
have built over many years, we will continue
to create new value through our products.
To compete and excel in today’s rapidly
changing marketplace, Ricoh is promoting
“open innovation.” Rather than limiting
the technological resources we tap into to
our internal ones, we actively collaborate
with external organizations and research
institutes, and use open technologies.
■
R&D Expenditure and Percentage of Annual Sales
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 (FY)
80,799
83,551
92,515
110,478
110,385
114,985
126,033
124,406
109,826
110,82 2
4.8 4.8
5.2
6.1 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.9
5.4 5.7
Percentage of annual sales (%)
R&D expenditure (millions of yen)
B
A
A
B
■ Genealogy of Ricoh technologies
Foundation Present
Optical technologies/Chemical materials technologies/Precision processing technologies
Core technologies: Manufacturing technologies/Quality control/Simulation technologies/Environmental technologies
Electrophotographic technologies/Mechatronics technologies/
Communication technologies/Semiconductor technologies
Image processing technologies/Precision control technologies/
Controller and network technologies/Inkjet technologies
Software and IT technologies/Authentication and
security technologies/Color management technologies
Video and audio technologies
Cloud service technologies
• Unified
Communication System
• Projection systems
• Production printing
• MDS
• IT services
• Diazo copiers
• Analog cameras
• Sensitized paper
• Plain-paper copiers
• Facsimile machines
• MFPs
• Laser printers
• GEL JET printers
• Document solutions
• Digital cameras