Cultivated Strengths / Sources of Value Creation

Cultivated Strengths

1.Trust from our clients built on our long history
Founded in 1962 as a design and development firm, the Company grew by winning contract work for design and development from manufacturers in the Keihanshin region, which drove Japan’s rapid economic growth. In our nearly 60-year history, we have succeeded in building trust with many client companies and accumulating a proven track record as a group of engineers with roots in design and development.
2.The business model we have developed over many years
Even during the global financial crisis of 2008, not many engineers who were placed in the upstream work processes of manufacturers (R&D) experienced contract cancellations. As such, we decided to increase our engineers’ upstream assignment ratio. To help us recruit excellent students who may be suited for upstream assignments, we have introduced internal programs based on the needs of engineers (e.g., job change assistance program, performance-based salary system, and limited area system).
3.Placement of engineers in technical fields with high market needs
Our engineers’ business fields are wide-ranging. At major companies in the automobile, home electronics, industrial equipment, medical device, and information and communications sectors, engineers participate in and provide a variety of technical services for cutting-edge projects, including eco cars such as electric vehicles (EVs) and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs), driver assistance technologies, racing cars, semiconductor lithography equipment, industrial robots, and system and application development.
4.Job-based employment that allows career development within the Company
We employ talent with STEM backgrounds as regular employees in technical jobs and offer an environment where they can focus on honing their skills as engineers. We classify the work processes of our clients into three categories: R&D; product development; and production. Correspondingly, we have established three groups for each area (High Value Group, Wide Value Group, and Product Value Group). Engineers can move between these groups according to their preferences and competence and develop their careers within the Company.

Sources of Value Creation

The Company has grown by staying attuned to societal changes and needs and contributing to solving social issues. In the course of this, we have accumulated various capital that is the sources of our current strengths. We will seek to strategically utilize and increase this capital and pursue further value creation.
Solid and strong financial base supporting sustainable growth
Equity ratio
Net assets
Cash flows from
operating activities
69.9
42.7billion yen
11.2billion yen
Practical education and training by training managers with engineer backgrounds, based on training curricula aligned with clients’ work
Percentage of training
managers with
engineer backgrounds
Average hours of annual
training per
employee (engineer)
Average cost of annual
training per
employee (engineer)
100
73.2hours
54,000yen
Regular employment of engineers with STEM backgrounds who can be placed in
upstream/midstream work processes of manufacturers
Number of engineers
Percentage of
engineers with
STEM backgrounds
Engineers who can be
placed in upstream/
midstream work processes
of manufacturers
1,192
100%
88%
Long-term partnerships with clients, schools, academic societies, and organizations
Transaction history
Schools from which we hired (graduate, undergraduate, junior college, technical, and professional schools)
Roughly1,200 companies
Roughly 350 schools
Papers published
Part-time lecturing at universities by
our training managers
166
15 courses at 8 schools
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