Daikin opens its new Technology and Innovation Center
Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces the completion of the Technology and Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as “TIC”) at its Yodogawa Plant located in Settsu City, Japan. With operations starting on November 25, 2015, the new facility will function as the core base for technology development of the globally expanding Daikin Group.
Engineers that had been dispersed to three Daikin bases in Japan (Sakai, Shiga, and Yodogawa Plants) have been shifted to TIC to promote technology development in a system of approximately 700 people. Serving as the center of the technology development that Daikin is expanding to every region of the world, TIC will actively promote global cooperation with industry, government, and academia and attract people, information, and technology from around the world. Daikin is building the world’s No. 1 technology in core technologies that include inverters, heat pumps, and fluorochemicals through the collaborative creation of innovation inside and outside the company and will leverage new and advanced technologies to expand business with differentiated products and create new value and business opportunities.
The speed of progress and change in technology centering on telecommunications and software continues to accelerate. Daikin is anticipating this change, enhancing each core technology in the businesses of air conditioning, chemicals, oil hydraulics, defense systems, and electronics, and endeavoring to fuse world-leading technologies that include technologies in telecommunications, advanced materials, processing, sensors, and medical equipment and healthcare. Together with business expansion, Daikin would also like to contribute to society by providing products and services that help solve social issues, including those related to the environment, energy, and health while affecting change in the lives and lifestyles of people.
TIC will help Daikin accelerate implementation of “collaborative creation” on a global level through alliances and collaborations with various companies, universities, and research organizations possessing distinctive technologies in a different field or industry. Daikin already actively promotes comprehensive alliances with Kyoto University, Osaka University, and Nara Institute of Science and Technology and joint research and development with home builders, manufacturers of electrical appliances and materials, and architectural firms. In the future, we will invite experts to TIC from every field for long-term stays to provide guidance in technology and proposals on strategy for mid- to long-term technology development involving Daikin engineers.
Daikin will create new value for customers by advancing collaborative innovation centering on TIC.
To achieve this, a variety of design innovations were incorporated in the TIC office and laboratory areas to promote collaborative creation for engineers to overcome barriers.
