Sticker indicating UL-listed products

Contribution to resolving societal
challenges by working closely withcustomers and providing optimalsolutions to their needs and challenges

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Integrated system of customer support
Manufacturing
DesignRisk
management

Labeling

DeliveryFoundation For Value
Creation

Renovated head office (top)and factory (bottom)

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IDEC FACTORY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION is a UL-certified
manufacturer that designs and produces control panels
compliant with UL508A, a US standard for industrial controlpanels. Its integrated system of customer support covers
preliminary risk assessment, design, manufacturing, and delivery.
Growing demand for products such as EVs and semiconductors
is driving greater investment in factory construction and other fixed
capital in North America. This has expanded the need for factory
solutions that provide a high level of safety compliant with UL
standards. IDEC FACTORY SOLUTIONS’ safety professionals—
all certified safety assessors—answer that need by using theirknowledge and expertise in machine safety to formulate solutions
and provide consulting, starting from the conceptual stage.

A “UL Listed” sticker is affixed to acontrol panel certified by a Nationally
Recognized Testing Laboratory (a thirdparty testing organization recognized by
the US Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration).

Business Strategy

Group company IDEC FACTORY
SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
leverages its core control
technologies as a problemsolving system integrator. It
engages in diverse systems
businesses centered around
IDEC’s strong suit safetyrelated devices and safetysystems. Examples include:

Designing/producing UL508A-certified
control panels and providing machinery
safety consulting to support
machinery manufacturers supplying
the North American market

Value Creation Story

Priority business measures

Introduction

Systems

Team Member’s Message
Proposing robot systems anticipating a futuresociety where humans and robots collaborate

Using digital technology to visualize issues,and stepping up system efficiency solutions

Earning strong trust withsuperb electrical equipment
technology and consulting

Katsunori Oda

AMR use cases

IDEC Report 2023

The food industry faces two key issues that impact society—labor
shortages and food waste/loss. IDEC FACTORY SOLUTIONS provides
the industry with system solutions that support the construction of newfactories and adoption of new technologies.
The company is also stepping up its offerings of factory digitalization
solutions to the factory automation industry. These solutions respondto the need for greater production efficiency through equipment statusmonitoring, predictive maintenance systems, and visualization of theentire production line.

Our expertise in control panel design and production
enabled our company to become certified as aUL508A control panel manufacturer. This dramaticallyincreased the number of consultations we receivefrom Japanese manufacturers that supply machineryto the US market. Machinery designed for use in
the US has to meet steep electrical requirements,
including high short circuit current ratings, and it’sdifficult to do that with conventional Japanese designtheory. Our extensive know-how in electrical design
and ability to provide consultation on machine safetycompliant with ANSI/NFPA 79* has earned strong
trust from many clients.

Data

There is a rising need for solutions that improve productivity by utilizing
automation in ways that achieve greater value added—such as automating
conveyance processes at factories by using AMRs and automaticallylinking them with the production systems. IDEC FACTORY SOLUTIONS
offers total systems that expand the value added of AMRs. To do this,it visualizes customer needs through simulations performed at theconceptual stage, originally develops customized top modules (conveyors,lifters, etc.), and adds features such as automatic linkage with elevators.

Governance

Sales Development Team,Control Systems Division
IDEC FACTORY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION* U S Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery, written by theAmerican National Standards Institute (ANSI)

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