Recently, IT technology has been changing and growing with the momentum that was predicted in Kurzweil's "accelerating change" which makes us feel the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry4.0). Passing beyond the stage of trial and error, IoT, AI, RPA, collaborative robots, etc. have reached the stage of practical use and have become indispensable tools for the future of manufacturing management and innovation. In 2017, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced the Japanese version of Industry 4.0, "Connected Industries," where "the way of connection" between "management and site" and "seller and buyer" suggests that this is the aspect that is going to decide the value of a company hereafter.

The environment surrounding manufacturing industry constantly changes, with one of the main focus made on IT technology. And we have been aware of the changes and have provided the manufacturing production control software system "Factory-ONE Cyber Factory". Thanks to you, the overall number of units shipped in the series has exceeded 1,700 since the start of sales in 1994, and it has been implemented and used by many companies both in Japan and overseas. In 2017, we announced the intellectual platform "EXtelligence", and in the same year we released the cloud-based EDI system "EDIFAS" which conforms to UN CEFACT. We strongly believe that EDIFAS will contribute to the realization of Supply Chain Management of the 21st century.

Until now, we have been providing products and services focused on solutions such as manufacturing production management systems, but from now on, we will provide services for all various business processes such as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), RPA (Robotic Process Automation), etc.

In addition, we are currently developing a B2B matching site for the manufacturing industry to further promote Connected Industries.

Recent technological advances are certainly remarkable, and manufacturing management calls for dynamic innovation. We will continue to develop new products and services that will further promote these innovations.

Thank you for your consideration.