Special Interview

Okuma Corporation (located in Aichi, Japan) enjoys a high market share of the machine tool industry in Japan. In response to the recent rise in demand for automation and labor-savings in China and other Asian countries, Okuma has continued to improve their customer support systems, for example, by opening new factories and showrooms and training technical staff . Mr. Yasuhiro Asahi, the chairman and GM of Okuma Machine Tool (Shanghai), talks about their future plans against the backdrop of Asian markets.

Nowadays we often see the buzzwords of next-generation manufacturing, such as automation, labor-saving, CPS (Cyber Physical Systems), visualization and smart factories. However, Okuma Corporation (located in Aichi, Japan), a world-leading general machine tool manufacturer, has already set up and is now running an innovative factory DS1 (Dream Site 1). Visitors from around the world are flocking to take a look at this working example of a “smart factory.”