Reinforcement of the business foundation
We have doubled sales from the early 2000s, while keeping fixed costs about constant. We will continue to uphold the policy of separating costs from growth into the future, while promoting investment in future growth and working to aggressively cut down production costs and maintain an appropriate level of fixed costs.
With respect to shop floor of manufacturing sites, we are promoting efforts to reform our production by networking not only our manufacturing plants but also suppliers through the KOM-MICS which allows for real-time "visualization" of machine performance. We are also working to accelerate the delivery speed of products and parts and achieve appropriate inventories by connecting market information directly to our plants.
The corporate source of value creation is employees. As we believe that diversity powers the growth of our company and individual employees, we are committed to providing workplaces and systems which enable each and every employee of the Komatsu Group to have motivation and pride and demonstrate his/her talents to the fullest extent. We will also continue our efforts for human resource development.