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.

KOM-MICS (KOMatsu Manufacturing Innovation Cloud System) is our original IoT platform to support production, which enables seamless operation of machines, improves yields, ensure traceability, and ensures preventive maintenance by accumulating process data of products and production. By using the K-MIC Pad (photo on the right), an impact-resistant jobsite terminal, we are promoting production reforms and no machine downtime by capitalizing on highly intelligent KOM-MICS in order to achieve outstanding improvement of production costs.