Apr. 1, 2021
Komatsu Ltd. (President and CEO: Hiroyuki Ogawa) is showing “Komatsu in 203X” on the occasion of celebrating its 100th anniversary. As one of the commemorative activities designed for sustainable growth into the future, this movie portrays how five workplaces should look in 10 to 20 years. Those workplaces include: mining equipment, construction equipment, forestry and agricultural machines, industrial machinery, and production. Komatsu is working to achieve such safe, highly productive, smart and clean workplaces of the future.
By digitalizing workplaces worldwide and connecting land features, people, equipment, and materials on an open platform, Komatsu will solve on-site problems and optimize on-site operations, create values together with customers, and secure a carbon neutral environment.
This commemorative movie describes what values Komatsu can offer for customers, businesses and planet. These values reflect exhaustive discussions by project members who were selected from different divisions of the Komatsu group, as they exchanged their opinions about what they want Komatsu to look like or how Komatsu should look. Komatsu has positioned the compilation of this story itself as one of its 100th anniversary activities.
More specifically, the discussions were engaged in by project members from development, production, marketing, product marketing and other operations on a global scale. They developed stories, describing how people were building a happy world. By visualizing what Komatsu wants to look like at five different workplaces in the future, Komatsu is working to achieve that vision soon. To share with stakeholders what Komatsu wants to look like at five different workplaces, Komatsu is showing “Komatsu in 203X”, which complies the essence of each workplace, on the Komatsu 100th anniversary website.
Looking into the next 100 years, Komatsu will continue to move forward with its stakeholders as it creates value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, businesses and our planet thrive together.
- Future of five workplaces -
<Mining>
To achieve co-existence between mining and the local communities under the key concepts of zero-harm, zero-emission, and zero-waste, Komatsu pays special attention to safety, environment, and productivity, which are the on-site issues of mining. Komatsu is working to realize autonomous, electric, and continuous excavation, as well as the optimization of all mining stages, by developing a related platform.
<Construction>
Under the key concept of high-efficiency construction via digital networks and platforms, this part describes safe, highly productive, smart and clean workplaces of the future at a river embankment construction site and a workplace created or recreated in a residential environment. For the goal of co-existing with local communities, Komatsu is working to manage all on-site data by using its platforms and realizing digital twins of all construction sites. This will streamline large-scale construction and shorten the construction periods, while contributing to the reduction of environmental impact by using unmanned machines with zero emission and other eco-friendly machines.
<Forestry and agriculture>
Forestry: Under the key concept of recycling forestry components to contribute to a carbon neutral world, this part describes a future when forestry machines will make environmental contributions through all stages of recycling, from felling, planting and growth to composition. By using exclusive applications on a cutting-edge platform, Komatsu is working to “visualize” forests and generate optimal plans for felling, forwarding, timber transport, and planting in order to facilitate the environmental protection of resources.
Agriculture: Under the key concept of reviving rich land, Komatsu is working to revive and develop rich agricultural land in response to social issues of population growth, food shortage, and extreme weather. By using exclusive applications on a cutting-edge platform, this part presents proposals of revitalization and preparation of land which achieve highly productive agriculture of the future and enable a wide variety of agricultural work, including the use of multi-functional bulldozers.
<Industrial machinery>
Under the key concept of the provision of an all-in-one system, from production to after-sales service, this part describes the optimal proposal of a clean and energy-saving entire line and the realization of next-generation lines. In addition to achieving entirely optimal lines by means of digital twins, clean, unmanned machining lines, autonomous and unmanned press lines, Komatsu is working to realize proactive maintenance, as represented by the detection of wear and the prediction of failure of machines based on AI-utilized autonomous diagnosis.
<Komatsu’s production>
Under the key concept of digitally connected plants with zero environmental impact, this part portrays highly productive workplaces which connect Komatsu, customers, and partners directly via data so that we can quickly provide customers with products and services as well as partners with information. Komatsu is working to achieve the production stages of a smart plant of the future, which uses advanced production lines and monitoring. Komatsu is also determined to contribute to a better environment by promoting the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) to cut down waste through its Reman business which recycles and reuses components.
No : 0002(3018)
Corporate Communications Department
Sustainability Promotion Division
Komatsu Ltd.
tel: +81-(0)3-5561-2616
mail: JP00mb_cc_department@global.komatsu
*The information described is at the time of presentation and may be subject to advance notice.
