On March 3, Kao produced the Toyohashi Plant on March 3 to create a flexible and efficient production system and a new logistics model that is environmentally friendly and stably delivered to consumers and customers.It has been announced that it will be transformed into a function -integrated supply chain base.

At the Toyohashi Plant, which produces multiple species, mainly skin care and hair care products, to realize a robot in order to realize a fluctuation of demand due to changes in purchasing behavior of consumers and a declining working population due to the declining birthrate and aging population.We are working on the construction of a flexible production system using AI.At the same time, the Toyohashi Connected Flexible Factory, which allows you to build a newly automated warehouse and operate with a logistics center, which is responsible for the logistics of the factory and the distribution function, to provide flexible products.Aim for realization.

The new warehouse, which started construction in February 2022 to realize a new logistics model, has a construction area of about 7150 m2, the storage capacity of the automatic warehouse is 1.2 million, and the deposit capacity by automation facilities is planned for each of each of the 40,000 dates each., The completion and operation are scheduled in the first half of 2023.

With the introduction of automation equipment using advanced technologies such as case sorting robots, unmanned transport vehicles (AGV), and unmanned forklifts, the sorting work in the warehouse does not require a fixed working place, and the sorting robot and AGV can be freely turned into the palette.The design is designed to achieve a high degree of freedom, which is performed simultaneously by loading and loading from the pallet.In addition, it is a facility with excellent environmental performance, such as using a renewable energy used by solar power generation, and using the asphalt modified agent "Neutrack 5000", which is a raw material based on abandoned PETs based on Kao.Casbee Aichi A rank and BELS5 ☆ are also planned.

In collaboration with advanced companies such as architecture, control systems, and logistics equipment, the aim is to co -create a sustainable supply chain by improving the efficiency of logistics, improving the work environment and reducing the environmental impact.

In addition, in order to smartize truck transport in the factory, accumulated in cooperation with the automatic driving fork lift demonstration project based on the “Further Transportation Efficiency Promotion Project utilizing AI, IoT, etc.”, which is open to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.In addition to automating and unmanned wholesale work, it will smartly enter trucks and leave to factories, reduce truck waiting time and promote white logistics that drivers can work with peace of mind.In addition, we are participating in the logistics warehouse technical committee of the robot Revolution Industry IoT Initiative Council to improve the robot -friendly environment of logistics warehouses.

With these efforts, it is a waste of product supply, shortening of time required, tracking trucks, reducing logistics costs, introducing trucks for electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, reducing environmental impact by solar power, automating and uninhabited logistics work.The aim is to improve the efficiency of total supply chains, such as improving the working environment by theization, and to build a new logistics model that can realize logistics services that are friendly to people and the environment.