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NIPPON SIGNAL REPORT 2019 NIPPON SIGNAL REPORT 2019 NIPPON SIGNAL GROUP PHILOSOPHY Our Mission Our Values Our Code of Conduct: We help realize a more secure and comfort- 1. Emphasize “safety and reliability” above all. Six Commitments … (Manufacturing) able society through superior technologies Mono-zukuri 1. Working for Customers’ Kando that provide safety and reliability. 2. Strive to improve customer value by taking the 2. Fair Corporate Activities Our Mission customer’s perspective. 3. Proper Information Disclosure and … (Business) Koto-zukuri Communication with Society Our Vision 3. Take on challenges for your own growth. 4. Respect for Human Rights and Creation of a … Our Vision We strive to become a global company by Hito-zukuri (Education) Good Working Environment pursuing world-leading technologies with 4. Preserve the environment and contribute to the 5. Environmental Protection and Proactive Social ingenuity and passion to inspire our development of local communities. Contribution Activities … Machi-zukuri (CSR) Our Values customers’ Kando.* 6. Proper Management of Company Assets 5. Have dreams and share them. and Information * Kando is a Japanese word that describes the sense of awe and the emo- tion you feel when experiencing something beautiful and amazing for … Michi-zukuri (Creation of the future) the first time. It is the moment when your expectations are exceeded— Our Code of Conduct you feel Kando. CONTENTS Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Editorial Policy Vision of the Nippon Signal Group Management Strategy Data Section Note on Forward-Looking Statements The Nippon Signal Group publishes annual inte- Nippon Signal Report 2019 contains grated reports (Nippon Signal reports) for its custom- for Value Creation statements on the future plans, forecasts, ers, shareholders, investors, and other stakeholders and prospects of the Nippon Signal Group. to facilitate understanding of the Group’s efforts to 2 Nippon Signal’s History of Innovation 8 To Our Stakeholders 16 Corporate Executives They reflect the predictions made by us help resolve social issues and increase corporate and are based on the information available value through its business activities. In preparing 4 The Nippon Signal Group’s Value 14 New Domains of Evolution 100 18 Financial Review at the time this report was published. these reports, the International Integrated Reporting Creation Story Please note that they may differ from Framework of the International Integrated Reporting 22 Financial and Non-Financial the actual results due to the progress and Council and the Guidance for Collaborative Value 6 Long-Term Management Plan Highlights circumstances surrounding future busi- Creation released by the Japanese Ministry of ness activities. Evolution 100 Economy, Trade and Industry were referenced in 24 Corporate Data order to ensure ease of understanding with regard to the value creation stories arising from our business Scope of Report model and the strengths that underpin the Group’s 25 Global Network Nippon Signal Co., Ltd. and the 13 consoli- competitiveness. dated affiliates *The report also includes information on Nippon Signal Report 2019 covers the “Evolution non-consolidated affiliates. 100” long-term management plan and the 2021 medium-term management plan that were launched Report Period in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, to paint a Fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 (from April picture of Nippon Signal’s vision, its management 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019) strategies for creating value, and the operating * The report covers some activities that fall foundations that support these efforts. outside this period. NIPPON SIGNAL REPORT 2019 1 Vision of the Nippon Signal Group Pursuit of New Pinnacles of Speed, Safety, Accuracy, Volume, and Comfort Nippon Signal’s History of Innovation Nippon Signal’s history of innovation is a chronicle of its ongoing quest to achieve new pinnacles of speed, safety, accuracy, volume, and comfort. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the history of Nippon Signal is the history of Japan’s transportation signals. The commitment driving us forward on this quest is the unchanging DNA of Nippon Signal that has been passed down from our founding until today. 1928–1950s 1960s–1980s 1990s–2010s 2011~ Foundation of Nippon Signal and Modernization of Evolution of Electronics Technologies and Start of Technological Progress and Network Business Acceleration of Global Expansion and Start Railway Signals New, Forward-Looking Businesses Development of New Long-Term Management Plan The Railway Nationalization Act, promulgated in 1906, national- The opening of the Shinkansen marked the beginning of a new The transition from analog technologies to digital technologies and Leveraging the technological prowess it cultivated in Japan, ized major thoroughfares throughout Japan, and transportation era, and Nippon Signal’s electronics technologies proceeded to from hardware to software enables Nippon Signal to acquire Nippon Signal accelerates global expansion efforts centered on demand saw a sharp spike thereafter. Nippon Signal was estab- evolve in the centralized traffic control (CTC) and automatic train technologies for realizing high-speed processing of massive quan- Asian and other emerging countries. In these efforts, we focus on lished via a merger of three companies and was tasked with control (ATC) systems used for the Shinkansen. We contributed to tities of data. With these technologies, we contribute to the dense, the development of systems compatible with the Mobility as a modernizing and realizing domestic production of railway signals. the development of Japan’s transportation infrastructure by creat- ontime operation, complex inter-operable facilities to support the Service (MaaS) revolution and new digital transformation. ing various new products geared toward the needs projected to mobility of 40 million people living and working in the Tokyo arise in the future as post-Shinkansen businesses are developed. metropolitan area. 1929 A technical collaboration agreement with 1963 Production of Pasca 205 miniature commercial calculator 1998 Production of the Eco Scan® microelec- 2011 The SPARCS simple-structure and high-performance ATC by radio General Railway Signal Company of the commences. tromechanical system optical scanner communication system is developed and put into use on the Beijing commences. United States is concluded with the aim of 1964 CTC and ATC systems produced by Nippon Signal are adopted for use Subway Line 15. achieving domestic production of world- on the segment of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo 2003 The Visionary Business Center is estab- 2017 The ANSHIN* Center is established to provide IoT platform base leading signal equipment. Station and Shin-Osaka Station. lished to facilitate the creation of new functions. Made-in-Japan traffic signal equipment is products and new businesses. 1931 1970 Production of PARK-LOC® system commences. 2017 SPARCS is installed on the Delhi Metro Line 8 (Magenta Line). produced and installed at the Nihonbashi, 2007 Reciprocal use of common IC cards ® Kurehabashi, and Sakurabashi 1972 Production of Japan’s first comprehensive 2018 The CLINABO automatic floor cleaning automated ticket gate system commences and (Suica and PASMO) commences, and Nippon Signal performs robot is developed. intersections. upgrades to all automatic passenger gates. this system is installed for use on the segment Nippon Signal participates in verification 1958 Production of parking meters commences. 2019 of the Sapporo Municipal Subway connecting 2009 The Overseas Division is established to boost competitiveness in tests and projects related to the provision Kita-Nijuyo-Jo Station and Makomanai Station. overseas markets. of signal information to self-driving 1984 An automatic boarding control system for vehicles. aircraft is developed. * “ANSHIN” stands for ‘Anzen and Shinrai’, which means ‘Safety and Reliability’ Smart City Systems in Japanese. We also state “ANSHIN” as ‘Advanced Nippon Signal High-level Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Systems Intelligence Network’. Smart Mobility Systems Railway Signal Systems 1928 1940 1975 1980 1990 2000 2010 2018 1928 Mimura Factory, Shiota Factory and Railway 1948 Osaka branch (now Osaka Branch Office) 1962 Utsunomiya Plant is established. 1995 Nippon Signal is awarded ISO 9001 2007 The head office is relocated to the Shin 2015 Nippon Signal India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary in Signal Corporation merge to form Nippon opens. certification. Marunouchi Building in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. India, is established. 1964 Ageo Factory is established. Signal Co., Ltd. 1949 Nippon Signal is listed on the Tokyo Stock 2001 Kuki Plant is established. 2008 Beijing Nippon Signal Co., Ltd., a subsidiary 2016 The Nippon Signal Group Philosophy is estab- 1937 Yono Plant is established in Urawa City Exchange. in China, is established. lished as a new shared Groupwide philosophy. 2002 Nippon Signal obtained ISO 14001 (now Saitama City), Saitama Prefecture. certification. 2019 The “Evolution 100” long-term management plan is announced. 2 NIPPON SIGNAL REPORT 2019 NIPPON SIGNAL REPORT 2019 3 Vision of the Nippon Signal Group The Nippon Signal Group’s Value Our Mission We help realize a more Creation Story secure and comfortable society The Nippon Signal Group’s value creation story is the story of incorporating the Nippon Signal Group through superior technologies Philosophy into our business activities as we seek to create a society in which people around