As its initiative to create a beautiful future society, SIGMAXYZ will envision scenarios to transform cross-industrial areas and promote collaboration with a wide range of partners.
The SIGMAXYZ Group positions "cities" as "real platforms" where various innovations are born, and is working on "city development" for the future. SIGMAXYZ and Tokyu Corporation have started promoting the nexus project, an initiative aimed at creating a new consumer-oriented city, in the Tama Garden City area.
In the regional area, we are considering an environmentally-friendly, decentralized autonomous, next-generation infrastructure in Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture.
By incorporating technologies from the digital and real fusion domains such as AM (additive manufacturing), robotics, and digital twin, we support the transformation of the Japanese manufacturing industry into a next-generation business type.
SIGMAXYZ joined the AM Study Group, as the secretariat, an industry-academia collaborative research group of The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials established by the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. More than 80 private companies, 14 universities, and 8 research institutes* will promote strengthening the manufacturing industry by building AM science and technologies such as the use of 3D printers in various materials (e.g. metals, ceramics, resins, and cells) beyond the framework of industry, academia, government, and academic societies.
* Number of participating organizations: As of September 2022
In the logistics industry, there is concern that the shortage of drivers will accelerate due to the introduction of the upper limit on overtime work in 2024, and there is concern over the coming of an “untransportable era.”
Under these circumstances, the government's promotion of developing a logistics ecosystem (shared use of logistics-related assets) is expected to begin in 2030. On the other hand, the logistics industry still relies on KKD (which in Japanese are kan (intuition), keiken (experience), and dokyo (courage)), and it is difficult to solve problems with the logic from desktops alone.
In promoting the development of an ecosystem, it is essential that the people and companies responsible for operations and systems are connected and that they cooperate with each other. SIGMAXYZ provides a place for people and companies with various ideas to connect with each other, and as an aggregator, promotes the transformation to develop next-generation logistics.
In today's rapidly changing world, predicting the future is becoming more and more difficult. The retail industry, which supports the daily lives of consumers, must envision how society will be and how people will live going forward to create a valuable future for consumers.
SIGMAXYZ will plan and implement a "vision of the future for retail business" from the perspective of people living in the coming world, based on its experience in supporting companies in the retail industry for a long time in the past.
"Mobility," which relates to the spatial movement of people and things, is an important infrastructure that supports our lives and industries. However, each region faces various challenges, such as an increase in the number of people who have difficulty traveling due to discontinued public transportation routes, and time loss due to constant traffic congestion.
SIGMAXYZ has been a member of JCoMaaS since 2022, and has been conducting a wide range of research and analysis on trends in mobility services in Japan and overseas, the technologies that make up them, and their impact on urban development. We are also working with government agencies, local governments, and automobile manufacturers to formulate a transportation system that will achieve a sustainable transportation society.