Konica Minolta: Reconstructing the Sustainable Development of Technological Digital Enterprises

Under the big situation that the digital transformation of global enterprises is imminent, artificial intelligence and edge computing are becoming important reference basis for enterprises in business decision-making. Basic technology reserve is the most effective cornerstone to cope with the future digital transformation and is also the cradle to expand diversified business innovation. After visiting Konica Minolta's Japan headquarters, Tianyi Network had the honor to visit Konica Minolta's two rarely open technology research and development centers in Tokyo's Bawangzi and Hino. Konica Minolta has turned the research and development center into an open innovation space for technology research and development. Konica Minolta internally calls it the SKT Smart Knowledge Transformation, which is a space to demonstrate Konica Minolta's digital technology advantages and core competitiveness to customers and partners. During the visit, partners and customers can have deeper and more open communication with developers, thus promoting the evolution of products and solutions. Konica Minolta's Prince 8 Research and Development Center is the world's SKT intelligence creation space with Konica Minolta's most complete solutions. Today, the concept of creating space with wisdom has penetrated into every company in konica minolta's world. the office of konica minolta office system (China) co., ltd. located in Shanghai is also equipped with SKT wisdom to create space separately. SKT Smart Co-creation Space consists of a technology exhibition area, a technology polishing area and a cooperation and co-creation area. The displayed solutions involve commercial and product printing, status monitoring, office, retail circulation, manufacturing, medical treatment, nursing and other industries. The core technologies involved in the displayed solutions are all obtained through development or merger during the last medium-term business plan "Transform 2016" to "Shinka 2019". Workplace Hub shows itself Workplace Hub is a new generation of enterprise IT solution platform launched by Konica Minolta to innovate enterprise workflow, enhance employee productivity and creativity. IT is also the core of Konica Minolta's practice Connected Workplace)IT service architecture. Through the management dashboard, all IT requirements can be managed simply and quickly, and changeable business requirements can be quickly responded to. In 2017, the Workplace hub released in Berlin, Germany appeared in the form of a multifunctional digital composite all-in-one machine, which can better integrate into enterprises in different office environments. In addition, Workplace hub also provides three forms of "cabinet form" and "server rack form". HPE and Microsoft partners provide Workplace Hub with complete hardware, security equipment and IT solutions. Production Digital Printing System When visiting Konica Minolta's Prince Eight Research and Development Center, the head of the research and development center gave each of the visiting media guests a welcome card, which was printed and produced by Konica Minolta AuccrioJetKM-1 digital printing system. KM-1 is a blockbuster product that combines the advantages of traditional printing and digital printing. Konica Minolta AuccrioJetKM-1 digital printing system has the paper feeding and receiving mode, printing cylinder set and reversing mechanism of traditional printing, as well as the original UV ink, high-performance inkjet printhead and imaging system of digital printing, so that it has the basic characteristics of digital printing equipment and also meets the needs of industry and printing equipment. The relief effect of the welcome card cover comes from JETVARNISH 3D EVOLUTION, another blockbuster product of Konica Minolta. The 100% digital workflow realizes local glazing and bronzing printing. It does not need traditional molds and plates such as screen plates, zinc plates or copper plates. It only needs to prepare a spot color layer outside CMYK printing documents to complete as few as one to thousands of printing operations, greatly shortening the printing preparation period and saving high plate costs. Ink jet textile digital printing system Digital printing is called a magnificent transformation of inkjet printing. The core of industrial printing is that any material can be printed. Ink-jet printing can solve the problem of overstock in the textile industry in different seasons and realize more flexible dynamic control. Konica Minolta's inkjet textile printing system Nassenger Pro 1000 made its debut in China in 2014. Konica Minolta officially entered the digital and fast-developing Chinese textile printing market. At konica minolta hino research and development center, the staff showed us two mass-produced digital printing systems Nassenger 10 and noassenger sp-1. konica minolta mass-produced digital printing system nozzles, equipment and ink are all manufactured and developed by the original factory. the core nozzles are durable and highly recognized by industry users. currently, there are 7 noassenger sp-1 digital printing systems in operation worldwide, one of which is in Shenzhen, China. Status Monitoring Solution Security has become one of the increasingly serious problems in the information age. At the same time, the demand for video surveillance is growing exponentially. Konica Minolta has introduced MOBOTIX video surveillance solutions based on the core edge IoT and image technology. Through its high security, high integration, distribution, maintenance-free, customization, easy expansion and other characteristics, it provides rich security protection solutions for different industries. In the technical demonstration, Konica Minolta's staff showed guests a complete package of microSD card storage management, high definition audio, video analysis system, professional video management system and motion monitoring software. The high degree of integration of software and hardware effectively reduces the deployment space and improves the deployment efficiency. Remote Monitoring Service for Crop Growth Status Japan's rice enjoys a worldwide reputation for high quality. With the retirement of the older generation of farmers, the efficiency of rice cultivation in Japan has been greatly reduced. Konica Minolta realizes intelligent agriculture through information and communication technology and robot technology, monitors the dynamic growth of farmland through unmanned aerial vehicle sensors and generates visual data, dynamically designs fertilizer application amount based on data analysis, and carries out fertilizer application and irrigation operations through automated machinery. Based on the combined application of ICT technology and robot technology, the past agricultural experience can be visualized and digitized, which is in line with the current wave of the times. Data-based scientific agriculture can spread rich experience to the next generation, and the production mode of data visualization can also be expanded and applied to more industries. The basic technology reserve of an enterprise is the cornerstone of diversified innovation and the necessary condition for the survival and development of the enterprise. Systematic basic technology reserve can help the enterprise to enhance its development potential. The R&D centers of Konica Minolta's Prince VIII and Hino help the enterprise accelerate its digital transformation with technologies developed around IoT and artificial intelligence. The R&D center is the core performance of the spirit of enterprise builders, the fulcrum of Konica Minolta's "One Konica Minolta" strategy, and the confidence to promote the "evolution" of global proposal digital enterprises.