PowerSaving
REPORT

We launched energy saving training to encourage
the production ﬁeld to makeenergy saving efforts voluntarily

The Sumitomo Electric Group has actively conductedenergy saving diagnosis in plants in Japan and overseas
under the initiative of the Energy Saving Office, andobtained results from the efforts. However, there was aproblem that some plants took no actions after
undergoing an energy saving diagnosis. We therefore

Energy Saving Handbook
with "Standard (Desirable)of Energy Saving" and"The Points to be checkedin Plant Patrol"(Japanese, English andChinese versions)started an energy saving training program to encourage
plants to make energy saving efforts in a voluntarymanner in fiscal 2016. This training program uses an A5
size handbook "Energy Saving Handbook with Standard(Desirable) of Energy Saving

andThe Points to bechecked in Plant Patrol ("Energy Saving Handbook"),which summarizes the points for energy saving diagnosis
and contains photos and diagrams to make theexplanation easy to understand, as well as an appendix"Examples of calculating the effect of energy saving" toallow the staff to easily recognize the monetary value ofthe effects. We also translated the booklet into English,
Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay, Thai and Indonesian in May
2017 to introduce it into overseas plants as well.
The energy saving training program is provided to around
10 people from each plant and completed in half a day.
After a one-hour classroom lecture, the participants visit a
production field with Energy Saving Handbook and spend
about two hours to make a list of the points that can beimproved for energy saving. Then, based on the list, aOn-site training

roughly one-hour session is held including a Q&A session
and the delivery of feedback by the lecturers.
The main purpose of this training is to have participants
experience the joy of identifying points to be improvedfor energy saving. Participants sometimes find a point thateven lecturers do not notice, which reminds the lecturersof the effect of energy saving diagnosis conducted by thestaff who are familiar with the specific process.
We have provided the training program at 60 sites inJapan as well as 12 overseas sites mainly in China. As tothe points identified to be improved for energy saving inthe plants, the Energy Saving Office is now receiving
inquiries on specific methods for the improvement andrequests to support the production site. We are looking
forward to the effects to be accumulated in the future.

Classroom lecture(From left)

Kanetsugu Kinugasa Assistant General Manager, Energy Saving Office, Safety & Environment Department
Yukinori Hashimoto Assistant General Manager, Safety & Environment Department
Nobuyuki Hirano Assistant General Manager, Energy Saving Office, Safety & Environment Department
Takayuki Mishima Manager, Energy Saving Office, Safety & Environment Department
Noriyuki Endo General Manager, Energy Saving Engineering Department,Plant Engineering Division, Sumitomo Electric Technical Solutions, Inc.

Naoyuki Akakabe Assistant General Manager, Energy Saving Office, Safety & Environment Department
Ryuuichi Kishimoto Energy Saving Engineering Department, Plant Engineering Division,
Sumitomo Electric Technical Solutions, Inc.

Mineko Miyawaki Assistant Manager, Safety & Environment Department

C S R VO I C E

We received energy saving training

Hisashi Ueda (left) Environmental Promotion Group, Safety & Environment Department
Fumio Maegawa (right) Supervisor, Tsu Electronics Works, Manufacturing Department, Manufacturing Division, Electronics Group
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

We received energy saving training at the electronics plant of Electronics Group. Throughthe training, we found that the utility rules were not strictly followed and visualization of
the equipment was insufficient in the plant and considered that it was necessary to take actions urgently. In theconventional energy saving diagnosis, our activities were accomplished when we improved the items indicated in thediagnosis. However, this training developed our abilities to find such items by ourselves using Energy Saving Handbook andimprove them in a voluntary manner. Energy saving activities are not something to do by yourself or do just because you
are told to do so. We will widely share the recognition we learned from the training that improvements should be foundand made voluntarily with the involvement of all staff to make even more improvements.

※ The names of the departments and positions are those at the time of the interviews.