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TNING VO 5/19 Från att vara ett företag utan egen telefon till att bli en av de världsledande leverantörerna inom industriell automation SMC Corporation 60 år Den 27e april var det 60 år sedan SMC grundades och med anledning av detta har grundaren, tillika styrelsens ordförande, Yoshiyuki Takada, delat med sig av hur han ser på SMC:s framgångsfaktorer samt blickat både bakåt och framåt. On the occasion of SMC’s 60th Anniversary Yoshiyuki Takada, Chairman, SMC Corporation: When SMC was established, it consisted of 8 employees that were mostly part timers. We didn’t have a phone of our own so, whenever required, we would use the phone of the small printing company next door. At that time, I had no idea that SMC would become a world leader. I was extremely busy and had no time to dream about such things. 60 years has been a long time, but in the end we took each and every day’s goals and moved forward, with each employee contributing their eff orts, and accumulating all of these achievements to bring us to the success we see today. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all employees, working together for today’s success. If we are to determine a factor of SMC’s success, I believe that it is well-balanced management. With many manufacturers, the power of the engineering departments tends to grow and there are many cases where investments can become bloated. SMC has valued it to sell things as to make things. Of course, we’ve made capital investments in our production but we’ve also made signifi cant investments in our sales forces by increasing our personnel. Also, more than 40 years ago, there was an opinion that applied products using pneumatics should be developed and manufactured. However, in an environment where we were too busy to develop such applied products by ourselves at all, SMC was thorough in creating parts for these applied products. As a result, we’ve come to this point by choosing the means to provide superior parts to talented engineers who develop applied products. Th is policy will not change in the future. 26 www.verko.se As a manufacturer of pneumatic parts, we will off er what users really want, what they can easily use, and emphasize the advantages of lightweight, small dimensions, multi-functionality and energy savings.Although it may depend on the changing world, I believe that SMC should continue to be dedicated as a parts manufacturer. More than 70% of SMC’s sales are now from outside of Japan. SMC has sales points in 81 countries around the world and each of these are operating independently. I feel that we need to strengthen global collaboration and communication between Japan and overseas to demonstrate our comprehensive capabilities at a global basis. If SMC were a person it would have become 60 years old of Kanreki (full circle of Chinese zodiacs calendar). However, I believe that SMC should take new actions in a rapidly changing world so that the next 60 years will be a second period of growth. In order to meet the expectations of many more customers, we should return to the "SMC Mind" that has existed since our founding, and we will work together as a company to undertake these future eff orts. SMC utvecklar produkter och lösningar inom industriell automation och är världens största tillverkare av pneumatiska komponenter. Företaget omsätter ca 50 miljarder kronor och har 20 000 anställda globalt. I Sverige fi nns SMC etablerade sedan 1986 med huvudkontor i Huddinge och regionkontor i Göteborg, Lund, Borlänge och Växjö samt en mängd återförsäljare över hela i landet. www.smc.nu