SUSTAINABILITY REPORT2019

E d i t o r i al Policy
Basic Appr o a c hThis Sustainability Report 2019 consolidates the existing Environmental Report and the ESG DATA BOOK, tototally describe FANUC's approach to E (Environment), S (Society), and G (Governance), which, we
believe, form integral in our pursuit of sustainable business and society.
The data mainly concerns the year ended March 31, 2019.
In order to disclose information in a sincere and transparent manner, we have posted our basic policies
for our actions, various measures, and other contents in accordance with the disclosure requirements
mainly under the GRI Standards.

What T his Re p o r t C o v e r s ( B o u n d a r y o f R e p o r ti n g )This report mainly focuses on the year ended March 31, 2019 (April 1,
Period2018 to March 31, 2019), while also describing our activities in the year
ended March 31, 2020, past history, and future prospects and plans.

Organization

FANUC Group(Organizations covered in the data book are listed individually.)

Reporting cycle

Published every year as an annual report

Date PublishedFebruary 2020 (Next scheduled issue: September 2020)

Guid el ine s Re fe r e n c e d
GRI Standards (Global Reporting Initiative)
Environmental Reporting Guidelines (2012 edition / 2018 edition) (Ministry of the Environment)

Forward-looking statements
Statements contained in this report that relate to future activities, business performance, events or conditionsof FANUC are “forward-looking statements” Such forward-looking statements are based on judgments madeby FANUC's management relying on information available at the time of the publication of this report and amajor part is derived from assumptions. As such, these forward-looking statements are subject to various
risks and uncertainties, and actual business results may vary substantially from the forecasts expressed or
implied in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, caution should be exercised in placing undue reliance onthese forward-looking statements. FANUC disclaims any obligation to revise statements on the future
forward-looking statements in light of new information, future events or other ﬁndings.

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CONTENTS■General
Message from the President & CEO

03

Basic Principles

04

The Three Philosophies

04

Materiality

05

ESG Promotion Framework

05

Dialogue with Stakeholders

06

Coordination with External Initiatives

07■Contributing to SDGs through Business09■Society
Overview

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With Our Customers

11

With Our Employees

24

Promotion of Employee Diversity

25

Employee Health and Safety26

Development and Training of Employees

27

Respect for Human Rights

28

With Local Communities and Society

30

Supply Chain Management

31■Environment
Environmental Initiatives

33

Climate Change

39

Resources and Waste

45

Water

48

Biodiversity

49■Governance
Overview

50

Corporate Governance

50

Compliance

52■DATA BOOK

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Message fromthe President & CEO
Kenji Yamaguchi
President & CEO

I would like to thank you for your continued support and cooperation towards FANUC.
We have decided to publish this Sustainability Report, which consolidates the Environmental Report andthe ESG DATA BOOK.
Our aim is to actively respond to the interest in the sustainable growth of humanity, focusing on the
Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations.
Since its foundation, FANUC has continued to grow, owing to your support. As we pursue further growthin the future, sustainable development will be expected from us. As such, we consider it necessary to
reﬂect back on our basic principles of “Strict Preciseness” and “Transparency”, and have the opportunity
to assess ourselves.
“Strict Preciseness” means having no oversights, while “Transparency”, means that important information,
including negative information, is reported immediately.
FANUC has engaged in sustainable development in order to promote automation and robotization in ourcustomers’ factories, as well as minimizing downtime, by improving the reliability and productivity of our
products, while decreasing energy consumption. I believe that the signiﬁcance of the publication of thisSustainability Report is noteworthy, as it allows us to look back on and organize our efforts, and makethem even more “transparent”.
FANUC intends to continue sustainable development based on its principles of “Strict Preciseness” and“Transparency”, not only to continuously improve its business performance, but also to demonstratestrong awareness of its responsibilities as a member of society.
Nothing would make me happier than for all of you to gain a deeper understanding of FANUC through thisSustainability Report.

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General

SDGs

Society

Environment

Governance

Data Book

B as i c Prin ciple s“Genmitsu”( Strict Preciseness )“Strict Preciseness” and“Transparency” are the basic
principles of FANUC.
Strict PrecisenessA company will last forever and be“Tomei”( Transparency )sound with strict preciseness.
Transparency
The corruption of an organizationand downfall of a company startfrom a lack of transparency.

T h e Th re e Ph ilosophi es

The three businesses of FA, ROBOT and
ROBOMACHINE are uniﬁed withSERVICE as “one FANUC”, to provide
innovation and reassurance tomanufacturing sites around the world.

Reliable
Predictable
Easy to Repair

FANUC aims to minimize downtime
in all factories all over the world.

Conforming to the spirit of “Service First”,
FANUC provides lifetime maintenance toits products for as long as they are usedby customers, through more than 260
service locations supporting 108
countries throughout the world.

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M a t erialit yMateriality

Risks

Opportunities

Maintain andimprovecompetitiveness● The emergence ofcompetitive products utilizing
new technologies causes our
products to lose their corecompetence.

● We can maintain our superiority by developing
competitive products, enhancing our services, andproviding our customers with attractive products.
● Creation of new markets through the use of newtechnologies also introduces new business oppotunities
for FANUC to expand its business domain and grow.
● We have nearly ﬁnished establishing multiple
production sites for our CNC (computer numericalcontrol) systems and robots, so that we can continue
to serve our customers, even in the event of alarge-scale disaster.

● Our factory comes to analmost complete stop, if alarge-scale disaster happens in
the area where the factory is
located.
Response toenvironmental
issues● Stricter environmental
regulations on resource
conservation led by Europe,such as reducing greenhousegas emissions and managing
chemical substance, may leadto increased costs.

● The transition from internal
combustion engines to EVs
powered by electric motors,
driven by measures taken by
the automobile industry tocombat climate change, may
have a major effect on themarket environment for our
main products in the FA
business.
See pages 39 to
40 for climaterelated risks andopportunities.

● The concept of lifetime maintenance, which
embodies our commitment to continue providing
maintenance as long as our customers continue to use
our products, as well as providing highly dependable,high quality products that are “Reliable, Predictable,
Easy to Repair” and minimizing d o wn ti me o f o ur
customers’ factories by putting “service ﬁrst”, hashelped to reduce waste for our customers around theworld.
● Leading the development of energy-saving products
and products high in energy efﬁciency will provide
opportunities to expand sales of our products indeveloped markets such as Europe. The transition to
EVs will broaden the range of robot applications, andcreate opportunities to increase product sales. The
number of sensors and cameras mounted to EVs will
grow, and is expected to stimulate the increase insales of ROBOSHOTs (electric injection molding
machine). Furthermore, the demand for high-precisionparts used in EVs and the demand for molds for EV
components are both expected to increase. This will
boost the demand for machine tools in this sector,
leading to a higher demand for CNCs.

Shrinkinglabor force
population● It may become difﬁcult tohire competent people.

● The rising need for automation in manufacturing
sites also represents an opportunity to expand theindustrial robot market, and will lead to thedevelopment of safe and secure work environments.

Buildinga governancesystem● There is a possibility that
correct management decisions
will not be made, or thatdecision-making will bedelayed.

● Proper decision-making will be made possible byestablishing a governance system under which theroles and responsibilities of the executive bodies (themanagement) are separated from those themonitoring bodies (the Board of Directors) .

E SG P romot ion F ramew or k
At FANUC, various committees conduct activities related to the factors of ESG, such as the environment, health andsafety, and compliance, with important matters being reported to the Board of Directors.
● Board of Directors● ISO14001 Meeting● Health and Safety Committee● Compliance Committee

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: Approval of policies, approval of medium- to long-term targets: Decisions on environmental activity plans, formulation of medium- to long-term targets: Deliberations and decisions regarding basic policies and measures on health and safety: Checking the status of whistleblowing and discussing issues

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D i al o g u e wit h S t a keholder s
Stakeholders

Communication method

Frequency

Content

Customers

Sales representatives

As needed

Collect and provide feedback on demands
and requests to FANUC. In addition, givecustomers tours of factories to enhance theirunderstanding about new products anddevelopment schemes.

ServiceAs needed

More than 2,000 service and support staff
members around the world provide telephone
support, onsite customer support, andmaintenance parts management.

Membership website

As needed

Answer customer inquiries by email andchatbot. In addition, we enable customers topurchase maintenance parts thorough ourmembership website.

New products open house
show

Every April

Invite customers and introduce our latest
products.

Exhibitions

As needed

Exhibit at trade shows in Japan and abroad to
introduce our latest products.

Labor union

At least
twice amonth

Hold discussions, negotiations, and exchangesof opinions through regular monthly meetingsand committees, quarterly meetings, andlabor-management negotiations.

Organizational performance
evaluation clinical system

Once every
other year

Listen to employee opinions from theperspective of employee satisfaction, and use
the PDCA cycle to discover and resolve issues.

General meeting ofshareholders

Annually

Report on business reports, consolidated andnon-consolidated ﬁnancial statements, andaudit results, and deliberate and makeresolutions on matters to be resolved after Q&A.

Financial results brieﬁng

Quarterly

Hold brieﬁngs and telephone conferences on
the contents of ﬁnancial results and business
forecasts, as well as engage in Q&A sessions.

Individual dialogues withinstitutional shareholders

As needed

Explain FANUC's initiatives and governance,and exchange opinions.

ESG disclosure

As needed

Publicize ESG activities, as needed.

Coexistence with
communities

As needed

Contribute to the revitalization of the local
economy through tax payments, job creation,and having business with local companies.

FA Foundation

As neededAward prizes to recognize research results on
factory automation (FA) and industrial robot
technology.

Economic and industry
associations

As needed

Participate in the planning and implementationof various initiatives by organizations.

Public-private joint projects

As needed

Participate in various public-private joint
projects and promote technical exchanges.

Employees

Shareholders

Communities

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Co o r din at ion wit h Externa l Ini ti a ti ves
FANUC promotes partnerships with various organizations including public institutions and organizations inindustrial and academic ﬁelds, to realize sustainable development.

Pub lic In s t it ut io n s

The Consortium of
Human Education for
Future Robot System
Integration (CHERSI)FANUC participates in the Study Group on Establishing an
Industry-Academia Collaborative Framework for Human Resource
Development, held by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, andhas signed a memorandum to establish CHERSI, which will develop
human resources specialized in robotics.
FANUC participated in the Strategic Innovation Program for Energy

New Energy andConservation Technologies conducted by NEDO by submitting a research

Industrial Technology

plan on the development of machine tools for realizing energy saving,

Development“R&D on Energy-Saving Machine Tools that Apply New Structural

Organization (NEDO)

Materials”, jointly with the Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Associationand other organizations, and the plan was adopted.

Economic a n d B u s ine s s As s o c i a ti o n sThis foundation was established for the purpose of giving awards forresearch achievements related to FA (factory automation) and industrial
FA Foundation

robot technology. It is operated using the interest, etc. from funds
donated by FANUC at the time of its establishment, and FANUC hascontinued to make donations to its operating expenses ever since.

Japan Business
Federation(KEIDANREN)

Japan Machine Tool
Builders’ Association

Japan Robot
Association

The Japan Society ofIndustrial Machinery
Manufacturers

As a member of KEIDANREN, FANUC strives to resolve international
issues and strengthen economic relations with other countries throughdialogue with concerned parties, while complying with the Charter ofCorporate Behavior.
The Association is a comprehensive organization related to the machine
tool business, which is mainly comprised of machine tool builders in Japan.
FANUC’s Chairman, Dr. Yoshiharu Inaba, serves as its Vice Chairman.
FANUC is a regular member of the Association, which is an organizationthat encourages research and development on robots and associatedsystem products, and promotes the use of robot technology.
FANUC is a member of the Society, which is an organization that drafts
and promotes measures to increase productivity and to rationalize
production structure in the ﬁeld of environmental equipment, plastic
machinery, and other industrial machinery.

Optoelectronics
Industry and Technology

FANUC regularly participates in the Multi-Technology Integrated Optical

Development

Process Study Group hosted by the Association.

Association

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Environment

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Data Book

Acade m ic A s s o c ia t io n s
FANUC participates in academic societies of relevant ﬁelds to collect thelatest technical information.
We actively participate in the Electric Discharge Machining Phenomena
Participation in various
conferences

Basic Research Committee of the Japan Society of Electrical Machining
Engineers.
We also participate regularly in the AKL - International Laser Technology
Congress at Fraunhofer ILT.
Every year, FANUC invites faculty members of several universities to its

Exchange of opinions

new products open house show in April, where we introduce our latest

with universities

pr oducts and h ave the prof essors i ntrodu ce the l ate st te ch nol ogies,
targeting technical exchange.

FANUC collaborates with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology, the University of California, Berkeley (USA), RWTH Aachen
Collaboration with

University (Germany), Frankfurt International School, Wiesbaden Campus

universities(Germany), and other universities to conduct joint research andexchange opinions. We also provide scholarship donations to help
cultivate young researchers for the future.

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Contributing to
SDGs through BusinessFA

Basic products

FANUC provides basic products that enablefactory automation, such as CNCs, which
control the operation of machine tools withnumerical information, servos, which control
speed and position, and laser oscillators,
which are used for welding and cutting. In
product development, we improve productivity
in our customers’ factories with energy saving,enhanced safety, and higher performance.

ROBOT

Applied products

Applied products

Various tasks can be automated by applying the

FANUC is developing compact machining

basic technologies of CNCs and servos to freely

centers, electric injection molding machines,

control robot arms. We contribute to improving

wire-cut electric discharge machines, andwork environments by releasing workers fromultra-precision machines that apply the basic

dangerous, dirty and difﬁcult jobs, and enhance

technologies of CNCs and servos. We contributethe stability of product quality by pursuing

to improving the productivity of our customers

long-hour, consistent and continuous production.

by pursuing superior machining performance,

In addition, we contribute to the maintenance

operating rates, and ease of use.

and growth of factories around the world bycompensating the shrinking labor pool, such as
by developing robots that can work incollaboration with humans.

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Toward a sustainable society by minimizing downtime and improving
productivity in our customers’ factories
Contributing to the achievement of SDGs through our FA, ROBOT, andROBOMACHINE businesses
The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit(SDGs), which consist of 17 goals and 169 targets.

was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New

FANUC is contributing to the development of theYork on September 25, 2015, with the leaders of moremanufacturing industry in Japan and abroad, bythan 150 member states participating. At this summit,

promoting automation and enhansing efﬁciency inthey adopted “Transforming our World: the 2030

customers’ factories. We are working to solve social andAgenda for Sustainable Development".

environmental issues, such as by reducing CO2 emissions

The Agenda includes a declaration and goals as an

through energy-saving products, and are also promoting

action plan for humanity, the planet, and prosperity.

activities to achieve the SDGs, which are goals that have

These goals are the Sustainable Development Goals

been agreed upon by the international community.

C a t eg orie s of C ontr i buti on■ Support our customers’ technical training at FANUC
ACADEMY■ Eliminate all discrimination in support of human rights■ More efﬁcient use of energy during production, and reuseof water and efﬂuents■ Contribute to automation, robotization, and minimizing
downtime in customers’ factories around the world■ Achieve a high level of productivity by promoting
automation and robotization in our own factories■ Realize innovation by promoting R&D■ Conserve the FANUC Forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji,
a World Heritage Site
■ Reduce waste through lifetime maintenance, supporting
our products as long as they are used by customers■ Collaboration with industry and academic organizations

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So ci e ty
O v e r vie w
FANUC contributes to the development of its
customers’ businesses and the manufacturing industry,by promoting the automation and robotization ofcustomers’ factories. In addition, our employees, who
support FANUC's corporate activities, are also

regarded as important stakeholders.
FANUC gives due consideration to people and society,while contributing to the creation of an afﬂuent
society as well as its sustainable development.

FANUC Code of Conduct
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/code/pdf/codeofconduct_e.pdf
Human Rights Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/humanrightspolicy_e.pdf
CSR Procurement Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/csrprocurementpolicy_e.pdf

W i t h O u r C u st ome r s
Basic Appr o a c h
The three philosophies of FANUC are comprised of“one FANUC”, “Reliable, Predictable, Easy to Repair”,
and "Service First" (p.4). FANUC contributes to the
manufacturing industry around the world byconforming to, and practicing these philosophies.
In development, FANUC focuses on ensuring its
customers’ safety and enhancing their productivity.
FANUC strives to enhance the quality, safety, andreliability of its products, and has established aquality management system toward this end.
FANUC provides lifetime maintenance to its products
for as long as they are used by customers, throughmore than 260 service locations throughout theworld. In addition, FANUC strives to improvecustomer satisfaction through the provision of training
courses at FANUC ACADEMY and support at the timeof product installation.

Initiatives
Framework to Promote Product Quality and Safety
FANUC promotes activities to improve quality in allprocesses, from development and design of products
to product quality buildups and after-sales services
following manufacturing and shipment, in an effort toenhance the quality, safety, and reliability of its
products.
The Reliability Development Division has been
established in the Research & Development
Administration Division to ensure the quality andreliability and to enhance the prevention and prompt
resolution of quality issues. At the same time, asection devoted to reliability development has been

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established in each laboratoty in each division thatengages in product development and design.
In addition, laboratories within the same businessdivision also share information on both development
and technology through various regular technology
meetings, and make use of such information during
development.
The Service Division has been established to provide
after-sales services in order to provide feedback
regarding various issues to the manufacturing anddevelopment sides.

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Board of Directors

Research&Development
Administration
Division

ROBOT
Business
Division

FA Business
Division

ROBOMACHINE
Business
Division

ROBOT MechanicalDevelopment
Laboratory

ROBOT Software
Development
Laboratory

ROBODRILL Laboratory

ROBOSHOT Laboratory

Laser Reliability
Development Department

Reliability
Development Department

Reliability
Development Department

Robodrill Reliability
Development Section

Roboshot Reliability
Development Department

ROBONANO Research
Department

LASER Laboratory

Servo Reliability
Development Department

Robocut Reliability
Development Section

SERVO Laboratory

Software Reliability
Development Department

ROBOCUT Laboratory

CNC Software
Laboratory

Hardware Reliability
Development Department

Products Evaluation
CenterReliability
Development
Department

CNC Hardware
Laboratory

Reliability
Development
Division

FANUC strives to ensure the safety and quality of its
products through a quality management system
based on ISO 9001. We carry out checks throughdesign review and veriﬁcation in order to meet therequirements of laws, regulations and standards aswell as the requirements of individual customers. In
addition, we conduct risk assessments of our
products.
FANUC conducts the following ongoing activities with

FIELD
Promotion
Division

the aim of improving and enhancing product quality.
● Technology meetings (held for laboratory
executives)● Reliability development technology brieﬁngs (heldfor researchers)● Reliability meetings (held in each laboratory)● Quality meetings (held to improve manufacturing
quality)"Visualization" of Quality and Reliability
The status of quality and reliability in all processes,
from product design to manufacturing and after-sales
services, is monitored in order to promptly respond to
defects. We collect data from our after-sales services,

analyze it, identify issues, and give feedback to our
production division and laboratories.
These activities are effective in improving our
products’ quality and reliability.

Reliability Development Technology
We promote the development of a framework todesign and manufacture highly reliable products, aswell as sharing of knowledge, in order to enhance thereliability development ability of our researchers.
The Reliability Development Division works withmembers of the Reliability Development Department
in each laboratory, to regularly review methods toimprove reliability-related issues and proceed withthe standardization of reliability development
methodologies.
In addition, the Defect Management Procedures havebeen established to deﬁne rules regarding response
procedures when defects arise.
All defects that arise are registered in a databasecalled the Defect Record, which centrally manages

the entire range of processes, from the investigationof the cause to the measures taken. This allows us to“visualize” the progress of the response, and prevent
any oversights. The knowledge and lessons of the
Defect Record are utilized companywide, and have
proven to be effective in terms of quality buildup andquality improvement measures, prevention of theoccurrence and recurrence of defects, and theeducation of young engineers. Furthermore, theReliability Evaluation Building has an area featuring
lessons learned from past defects, where actuallyused pruducts with quality and performance aredisplayed. This area is used to educate researchers
by encouraging them to learn from past failures.

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Reliability Evaluation Technology
As FANUC products are used in manufacturing

This facility is equipped with dedicated test rooms,

sites, they are exposed to extremely harshsuch as an anechoic chamber, an EMS

environments. In order to ensure that our products(electromagnetic susceptibility) test room, acan operate stably for long periods of time undervibration test room, a mist test room, a variable

these conditions, while contributing to minimizing

temperature room, a variable humidity room, adowntime in our customers’ factories, we arecapability limit test room, a noise measurement

promoting the standardization of evaluation tests

room, a submergence test room, a clean room, andby conducting them in a variety of surroundings.

a precision measurement room. In this facility, a

The Reliability Evaluation Building, which opened invariety of tests are performed while taking into

2016, has a total ﬂoor area of approximately

account variations in data under various

22,679 square meters (103 meters wide × 198

conditions, including the accelerated life test to

meters deep), and houses a variety of equipment

evaluate long-term reliability.

for thorough reliability veriﬁcation.

Reliability Evaluation Building

Anechoic chamber

Mist test room

Solutions for Decreases in the Workforce and Skilled Engineers

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The number of workers in the manufacturing

In addition, if engineers cannot operate theindustry, as well as the number of skilled engineers

machines properly, not only will productivity

is expected to decrease in the future.

decline, but also the facility operating rates will

FANUC promotes labor saving through thedecrease due to such failures, and the engineers

automation and robotization of factories, in orderthemselves may be injured. We strive to solve thisto solve the problem.

issues by developing user-friendly products.

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Partial automation of work

Collaborative robots do not require a safety fence, because they

processes by collaborative

securely stop operating when coming into contact with humans. The

robotsdeployment of such robots in work processes carried out by humans
enables the partial automation of such processes.
Collaborative robots provide additional options for solving labor
shortage.

QSSR (Quick and Simple

I n or der to re d u c e th e te c h n i c a l ro a d b l o c k s i n v o l v e d i n b u i l dingStart-up of Robotization)

robot systems, we have packaged the basic elements required toconnect CNCs and robots. We support deployment mainly throughfunctions that can be performed by users without teaching robots
the operations in advance.

Visual guidance screen

Functions such as a simple adjustment for adjusting machining
parameters, which enables easy ﬁne-tuning, are displayed on theguidance screen, to provide visual guidance on how to use themachines. They are user-friendly even for unskilled operators.

Easy-to-use user interface

The tablet-style teaching pendant and user-friendly UI make it easy

(UI)even for unskilled workers to conduct operation and programming.

Easy connection of laser

Highly-synchronous connection with machine tools and robots

oscillators

through simple settings supports the smooth building of machining
systems.

Ensuring Customer Safety
FANUC contributes to the improvement of safety

policy and the Human Centered Design (HCD)

and the minimization of downtime at its customers’

concept, we design products that sufﬁciently fulﬁllfactories through their safe and stable operation.

user requirements to their high satisfaction, without

To this end, it is essential to enhance productdeﬁciency or becoming excessive. In addition tosafety in order to protect operators from danger.

complying with ISO, JIS, and local laws and

FANUC engages in research and development toregulations, our designs take user-friendliness andensure a higher level of safety, and its FA, ROBOT,

safety seriouly into consideration. We are in theand ROBOMACHINE products comply with theprocess of formulating related guidelines, and plan

relevant safety standards.

to introduce them globally to our overseas ofﬁces

Furthermore, based on our “Simple & Smart” designin the future.

Complying with safety

We fully meet safety standards, such as JIS, ISO, and IEC, and havestandards

been certiﬁed by certiﬁcation bodies.

Dual Check Safety (DCS)

DCS complies with safety standards (IEC61508 SIL 2, IEC62061 SIL 2,
and ISO 13849-1 PL d) and has been certiﬁed by certiﬁcation bodies.
Safety-related signals are duplicated for comparative monitoring. In
the ev en t o f a f ai l u re o f o n e h ard ware s af e ty c i rcu i t, th e s e c o nd
circuit detects the failure, thus maintaining the safety of the system.

Custom Programmable

In our ROBODRILL, the customer or system integrator can apply the

Machine Controller (PMC)abovementioned DCS function to the control of peripheral equipment

safety functionthat is additionally installed on the ROBODRILL. This will make theseparate safety circuits and control equipment unnecessary.

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Malfunction prevention

The design gives consideration to safety, such as by halting and issuing

functionan alarm in the case of accidental operations by the operator. In the
future, we will work on a feature that stops functions pertaining tohazardous and accidental operations, as well as one that prevents suchchoices.

Environmental improvement

We are replacing plasma cutting with laser cutting, by promoting CO 2

of machining sites

and ﬁber laser machining technology. This effort will signiﬁcantly reducenoise and dust at machining sites and improve the work environment.

Fully covered structure for

FANUC's unique structure features a fully covered injection unit, wherehigh temperature parts

the ROBOSHOT heater is mounted, in order to avoid the risk of operator
contact with high temperature parts during molding operations.

Collaborative robots

Collaborative robots do not require a safety fence, because they
securely stop operating when coming into contact with humans. These
robots are used to assist in tasks alongside human workers, enabling
operators to avoid heavy lifting, so that persons with less physicalstrength can perform tasks safely.

Smooth stop function

This function stops robots on a procedure that has been conﬁrmed tobe safe in the shortest possible time, in case of of any abnormality.

Brake error diagnosis

If a failure occurs on a brake while the robot is in operation or at rest,functionthe power of the brake may decrease, causing the robot's gravity axis
to fall. This function provides early diagnoses of such brake malfunction,and notiﬁes the user in advance.

Improving Customer Productivity
FANUC pursues the automation and robotization of

by analyzing failure information regarding ourour customers’ factories as well as their highproducts, and conducting ongoing research andefﬁciency. FANUC has realized a high operating rates

development to enhance reliability.

FA
FANUC provides highly reliable CNCs, servos, and lasers, which constitute the basic technologies of
FANUC. We also realize enhanced productivity of customers' factories by improving performance of
these products, as well as saving space by reducing the size of devices.
In addition, we contribute to improve the quality of our customers’ products by achieving high-quality
machining. The manufacturing of a variety of industrial products using machine tools equipped with
FANUC's CNCs and servos contributes to an efﬁcient society, including the manufacturing industry.

Developing a simulation function

The development of CNC simulators such as CNC GUIDE has
made it possible to provide education on machining
programming, among other topics, even in the absence of actualmachine tools. This leads to the improvement of educational
efﬁciency at training sites in the manufacturing industry, as well
as a reduction in the required number of units of training
machinery and equipment, thereby helping to reduce resources.
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programs can reduce the number of defects caused by machining errors
in actual machining. This reduction enables cost cutting as a result ofcurbed power consumption at the time of performance of relevanttasks (such as regular disposal of cutting chips) and machining, because
it reduces the amount of cutting chips and coolant discharged.
Developing customizable

Since the structures and functions of the machine tools provided byfunctions

machine tool builders, who are our customers, differ, the required
operating screens and control functions also vary. The development offunctions allowing customers to easily customize tasks, such as
designing displays and controlling signals, enables each customer toprovide operators with operability suited to their own machines.

Servo Learning Oscillation

The largest obstacle to automating turning is the situation in which longchips generated by turning become entangled in the workpiece or tool.
In addition, such long chips are difﬁcult to discard. This function solves
these issues by shredding chips mitigating problems such as damage totools and defective machining.

Fast Cycle-timeThis is a group of functions that reduce machining time. ThroughTechnology

optimization of the actual machining operations of the machines as well
as a reduction in non-machining time, the overall machining time isshortened and the operating rates of the machines is improved.

SERVO GUIDE,The utilization of support tools and AI that easily realize the high-level

AI Servo Tuning

tuning of parameters to control servo motor enables even unskilled
operators to carry out servo tuning.

3HMI

3HMI provides a user interface that simpliﬁes the operations of theoperator who is the actual user of the machine tool.

MT-LINK3

With MT-LINK3, it is possible to identify machining processes that may
constitute bottlenecks in the production line, by knowing theoperational status of the machine tools installed in the factory. Thisfacilitates process improvement.

Fine Surface Technology

This CNC and servo control technology realizes high-quality machining.
This technology can reduce the quantity of work in subsequent
processes, such as polishing the machined surface, and enables
reduced friction in components used in the manufacturing of
automobile parts. This results in enhanced automobile quietness, andsolves problems such as noise.

Failure diagnosis function

The failure diagnosis function provides guidance when warnings andPreventive maintenancealarms are issued, which indicates the cause along withfunctioncountermeasures, thereby shortening recovery time, as well as apreventive maintenance function that detects signs of failure, thus
reducing machine downtime.

Improving spindle motor

By improving cooling performance, the output of the spindle motor can

outputbe increased without changing its size, thus contributing to theimprovement of the machining performance of machine tools.

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ROBOT
Robots which utilize the basic technologies of CNCs and servos relieve workers from dangerous, dirty,
and difﬁcult jobs by performing tasks that were previously handled by humans. At the same time, robots
revolutionize work styles, such as by reducing work hours and eliminating night shifts. Through thedevelopment of intelligent robots using visual sensors and force sensors, the areas in which robots canbe used are expected to expand.
In addition to automating production lines and enhancing efﬁciency, the utilization of robots improves andstabilizes product quality, as they can continue consistent production over long periods.

Saving space

The Robot R-20003D, which is frequently used in spot welding andhandling applications, has a footprint that is 23% smaller than those of
conventional models.
It can be mounted in a variety of conﬁgurations including on shelves, walls,
and ceilings, and saves space by optimizing the factory layout.

Reducing robot cycle

FANUC has acquired a patent for the world’ s ﬁrst practical learning robot.

time

For example, in a conventional car body welding line, the utilization of 30
robots reduced cycle time by 10.2% after learning.

Improving cost

An automatic guided vehicle (AGV) equipped with a collaborative robot

efﬁciency

can move autonomously, allowing a single robot to work at multiple
locations, and improves the operating rates of the robot in processes withlong cycle times.

Automation system

The use of ROBOGUIDE, a software that automatically calculates thedesign support tool

optimal layout of machines and robots, can reduce the time for trial anderror required to design an automation system.
Optimizing the operating program using ROBOGUIDE reduces cycle time.

Reducing downtime

Zero Down Time (ZDT) is a “predictable” function that alerts users before
failure and improves productivity by reducing the downtime in factories.
ZDT is connected to more than 20,000 robots around the world, and has
prevented more than 1,000 downtime cases.

Remote monitoring of

A robot's teach pendant screen can be viewed from a remote PC via a

operation

network. Accordingly, the operating conditions of many robots can beconveniently checked from the ofﬁce, eliminating the need to make roundsof the factory to inspect the operating conditions of each robot.

2019 Winner of double awards (2019): Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun Award for
Excellence in the 2019 Nikkei Superior Products and Services Awards/62nd
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ten Great New Products Awards Main Prize
Robot R-2000 3 D/210FH

Winner of double awards (2018): Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
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ROBOMACHINEFANUC provides four product groups, consisting of ROBODRILLs (compact machining center),
ROBOSHOTs (electric injection molding machine), ROBOCUTs (wire-cut electric discharge machine), andROBONANOs (ultra-precision machine), which utilize the basic technologies for CNCs and servos. All ofthese product groups boast high performance and high operating rates, and help our customers adopt
IoT in their factories.

Saving space

Compact ROBODRILLs with high machining performance provides the beneﬁts
of both saving factory space and increasing ﬂexibility in terms of factory layout.

Reducing machining time

ROBODRILLs shorten cycle time and achieve high productivity bythoroughly reducing idle time, such as the time required to change tools,
by executing tool changes and table positioning operations concurrently.
In addition, we are proactively expanding compatibility with newmachining methods using special tools.

AI backﬂow monitor

ROBOSHOTs leverage AI to evaluate and predict wear on expendable
parts (backﬂow prevention ring), and conduct “predictable” preventive
maintenance. This makes visual inspections, which is the conventional way
to conﬁrm wear, unnecessary, thus reducing the workload.

Multi-functionalizing

A second injection unit was developed for ROBOSHOTs. With this unit,

standard models

molding of two types of resin materials with different functional
requirements is made possible within a single mold achieves
high-value-added molding with less man-hours in the assembly process.

AI thermal displacement

Fluctuations in cutting accuracy caused by changes in the temperature ofcompensation function

ROBOCUTs are predicted and controlled using AI technology. As a result,compensation accuracy improved by roughly 30% compared with theconventional models.

High reliable auto wire

The ROBOCUT features highly reliable automatic wire feeding that canfeeding (AWF3)

automatically recover feeding when a wire is accidentally cut anddisconnected, thereby enabling unmanned operation for long periods.

ROBODRILL-LINK3

Monitors the operating status of the entire factory in real-time and

ROBOSHOT-LINK3

supports the early detection of errors for quick recovery, contributing to

ROBOCUT-LINK3

improvements in operating rates of factory equipment.

2018 Winner of double awards (2018): Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun Award for Best
Product in the 2018 Nikkei Superior Products and Services Awards/61st Nikkan
Kogyo Shimbun Ten Great New Products Awards Main Prize
ROBONANO α-NM3A

5th (1994)/28th (2017) Japan Society of Polymer Processing Aoki Katashi
Innovation Award
Development of AI Pressure Tracking Control for a Fully Electric Injection Molding Machine (1994)
Movement Detection Technology and Injection Volume Stabilization Technology for a Backﬂow
Prevention Ring (2017)

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Energy Saving in Our Customers’ Factories
FANUC's products also contribute to energy saving.

Please see page 41 for details.

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Waste Reduction and Effective Utilization of
Resources in Our Customers’ Factories
FANUC's products also contribute to waste
reduction and the effective utilization of resources.

Please see page 45 for details.

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Lifetime Maintenance
FANUC provides lifetime maintenance for its products

Even in cases where some parts run out of stock, theas long as they are used by customers, even for

Repair Factory has a system for ﬁnding replacement

models that are no longer in production. Lifetime

substitutes or redesigning them. In addition, oldmaintenance makes it unnecessary for our customers

manuals are also digitized as part of our efforts forto discard old models or purchase new models due tolifetime maintenance.

discontinued maintenance service, thereby allowing

Units which have broken down are cleaned in athem to use FANUC products at a low cost for several

washing machine using robots or other means, anddecades.

after being dried overnight in a drying furnace, they are

We perform approximately 90,000 repairs per year inrepaired. Not only damaged parts, but also parts thatJapan, of which roughly 10% consists of products thatare starting to deteriorate are replaced, to attain awere manufactured more than 30 years ago. FANUC's

quality in repair that is equal to a brand new unit.

Repair Factory has a stock of over 2.6 million pieces of

The Repair Factory has performed over 1.8 million

15,000 types of repair parts, including old parts that

repairs thus far, and its know-how is utilized inare no longer in production, ready to repair used

domestic and overseas repairs, as well as being fed

motors, PCBs, or units that are more than 30 years old.

back to laboratories.

■Example of repair for PCB, spindle motor and servo ampliﬁer unit about 30 years old.

Before repair

After repair

Technical Support for Our Customers

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Each business division provides support to ourmachining systems for laser oscillators and determining

customers per product, to enhance customer

machining settings. Engineers are dispatched fromsatisfaction.

laboratories as necessary to share the latest technicalIn the FA Business Division, the Sales Engineering

information and hold technical meetings to cater to

Department plays a central role in providing technicalnew models designed by our customers.

support and adjustments for installing CNCs at the

The ROBOT Business Division and the ROBOMACHINE

design/production sites of machine tool builders, who

Business Division also provide technical support forare our customers, as well as support for building

automating production lines of our customers.

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Efforts to Facilitate the Introduction of New Models
FANUC facilitates the introduction of new machine

ROBOSHOT models, the programs for old robot

tool models at manufacturing sites. For machining

models can be converted and reused. In ROBOSHOTs,

programs using G code, which are primarily utilized invarious settings data and parameter ﬁles for molding

FANUC CNCs, the program of old models can be usedconditions can be transferred to other models.

as-is, without making changes. As such, machine tools

Combined with our efforts for lifetime maintenance,

equipped with FANUC CNCs can reuse the programs

we realize the long-term use of our products, andand settings of old machines, thereby facilitating thepromote improvements in customer satisfaction andintroduction of new machine tools for our users.

the effective utilization of resources.

Even during the introduction of new ROBOT and

FIELD system
The FIELD system (FANUC Intelligent Edge Link & Drive

The FIELD system offers an SDK (Softwaresystem) is an open platform for manufacturers that

Development Kit), so that third-party developers canaims to further improve productivity and efﬁciency

also freely develop and sell application software andwithin the industry. This system increases yield, quality,

converters for devices. The design guide of the SDK

and output through the visualization of factories,

provides a comfortable development environment withthereby contributing to the maximization of ourconstant surface speed (CSS) that integrates universal

customers’ revenue.

design.

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FANUC ACADEMYFANUC has been focusing its energy on training our

two days to three weeks, according to the needs ofcustomers, as well as domestic and overseas service

trainees.

personnel since its foundation, in order to promote

During the one-year period from April 2018 to March

automation and robotization in our customers’

2019, a total of 5,186 trainees attended from Japanfactories around the world.

and overseas.

In 1982, FANUC established FANUC Training CenterIn addition, FANUC ACADEMY is also working withwhich produced more than 100,000 graduates. In April

training schools established in the United States,

2019, we increased its scale and established FANUC

Europe, and China to build a system for conducting

ACADEMY as an education facility with enhanced

training based on FANUC' s global standard. The

content. FANUC ACADEMY offers training courses

ACADEMY is intended to nurture sophisticatedrelated to all of our products, from CNCs, servos, andcustomer service as it provides a high level of technicallaser oscillators to ROBOTs, ROBOMACHINEs, andeducation to personnel in charge of training and

FIELD system, and offers training courses ranging fromservice throughout the world.

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Systems to En h a nc e Ed u c a ti o n a l E f f e c ti ve n e s s
Actual products are installed in our classrooms, so that
Workshop classrooms

trainees can practice directly on CNCs or machines by theirside, while listening to lectures.
A tablet is provided for making preparations and reviewing

e-Learning

training materials through e-Learning. Trainees can learn in theclassrooms during breaks and in the guest rooms at night.

Abundance of machines for

For training on CNCs, ROBOTs, and ROBODRILLs, one unit ispracticeprovided to each trainee.
There are 110 spacious guest rooms. There is also a cafeteria
and onsen facilities (hot spring baths) where trainees can

Guest House

refresh themselves.
We have revised our systems to thoroughly enhance educational effectiveness, and have received a ratingof 4.5 or higher out of 5 on the trainee satisfaction survey, since 2019.

＜FANUC ACADEMY’s Satisfaction Rating and Number of Trainees＞
Number of trainees（persons）

Satisfaction
rating（out of 5）

600

4.6

Satisfaction rating
450

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300

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Training Center to FANUC ACADEMY. During this period, the Nagoya school continued to offer training.
In addition, FANUC ACADEMY gives factory tours to students from local technical high schools, providingthem with opportunities to see actual manufacturing sites ﬁrst-hand.

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Providing Global Services
Based on the spirit of “Service First”, FANUC

more than 260 service locations supporting 108

provides lifetime maintenance for its products forcountries throughout the world.

a s l o n g a s t h e y a r e u s e d b y c u s t o m e r s , t h r o u gh

Basic Approach
FANUC strives to improve customer satisfaction by providing prompt and careful services.

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Promotion Framework
In order to promote our basic policy, we hold the

Furthermore, case studies and knowledge regarding

Global Service Conference, organized by the President

topics such as parts and technical information,& CEO, once in each year, which is attended by service

maintenance tools, and service training are sharedp e r s o n n e l f r o m l o c a t i o n s a r o u n d t h e world.

through a variety of working group activities.

Goals
We aim to improve customer satisfaction byservices, and increase the percentage ofproviding better services. To this end, we makemaintenance parts that can be delivered

efforts to shorten the average waiting time for

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T o Realize Flexible Services
More than 2,000 service personnel and support staff(all are FANUC Group employees) around the world
handle phone calls, provide services at customer sites,
and manage maintenance parts. Units replaced at therequest of our customers are repaired at Repair
Factories in 10 locations around the world to bereused. Using these units in subsequent maintenanceservices leads to waste reduction and the effective
utilization of resources.
In our domestic services, we are striving to enhancemobility, primarily by having all ﬁeld service personnel
carry a mobile device, so that representatives can visit
customer sites as quickly as possible, based on thecurrent locations of all personnel.
The realization of ﬂexible services requires all types ofmaintenance parts that amount to an enormous
quantity. FANUC has a global parts warehouse inJapan, as well as a global inventory search system inan effort to visualize the inventory around the world.
By globally managing our inventory of maintenanceparts, regardless of how old or rarely used they may
be, they are stored at some locations around theworld. Inventory data is updated to provide parts asquickly as possible. In addition, we prepare an overall
demand forecast for maintenance parts, in order toutilize the data to streamline the supply of parts.
Furthermore, we established additional core locationsin Japan as part of our business continuity plan (BCP),
to secure the continuity of our services. We have also
ensured that we can continue providing lifetime
maintenance by establishing call centers and parts
warehouses in the two locations of Hino, Tokyo andKomaki, Aichi, as well as by mirroring the servers that
contain accumulated information, including past
service data.

Enhancing Our Service System
In our after–sales service, in addition to carrying out
repairs in a short time, we are strengthening our efforts
to implement preventive maintenance by detecting
signs of trouble before breakdowns. Accordingly, weare encouraging preventive maintenance in order toimprove operating rates in our customers’ factories.
In our call centers, we accept inquiries regarding
repairs in case of failures and parts sales. In an effort
to provide efﬁcient services, we have set up a toll-freeline in Japan, and call centers use a dedicatedreception software which are updated as needed,
reﬂecting requests from service personnel andoperators. Similar software is used in our overseas
ofﬁces tailored to the circumstances andcharacteristics of each country.
Key data from individual maintenance reports is shared
among countries, and utilized primarily to improvereliability, and develop jigs and tools.

＜ Se r v ic e s in J a pa n＞
We accept calls until 5:10 p.m. on Saturdays forcustomers who operate their factories on weekends.
After long public holidays and other occasions whencalls concentrate, all staff in each location including
managers handle calls and calls are forwarded fromthe call center to available lines at sites to prevent afall in response rate.
We also provide the CS24 service (for a fee) tocustomers who request availability at night, and on
Sundays and holidays.

Some overseas ofﬁces have individual contracts withcustomers to provide maintenance services 24/7.
In addition, we provide a maintenance contracts after
expiration of the warranty period. Customers who
have signed the contract to prepare for any productfailures after the warranty period expires, are entitled
to repair services which are free of charge within thecontract term for an unlimited number of times (certain
parts and supplies are excluded).

Membership Website
A membership website established in April 2015
provides downloads of electronic data for outline
drawings to members free of charge. There are two
types of membership, i.e. general membership open to
the general public amounting to around 20,000
members, and customer membership limited to actual
users of FANUC products currently consisting of around
5,000 members (as of December 31, 2019). Customer
membership website is a very convenient site where acustomer can download materials including electricmanuals and purchase maintenance parts.
In December 2019, we added a chatbot function,

launching a registration service for customer productinformation and a Q&A service regarding themembership website. Compared to the past whenservice personnel entered such registration information
sent back from customers on postcards, suchinformation can now be self-registered by customers,
enhancing convenience for both parties. We arelaunching a new maintenance information service basedon the registered information.
*Japanese site services are available only in Japan.
https://store.member.fanuc.co.jp/ (in Japanese)

Customer Satisfaction Surveys
FANUC America, FANUC Europe, and other overseas
group companies conduct regular customer
satisfaction surveys. In Japan, we conduct anonymous

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Suppor t fo r Re s t o r a t io n f r o m T y p h o o n D a m a g e
In 2019, Typhoon Faxai and Typhoon Hagibis
caused record storms and heavy rains in northernand eastern Japan. We have been supporting therestoration efforts of many customers who suffered
ﬂood and other types of damage in their factories.
In addition to our service personnel, the employees
at our laboratories and the Production Divisionalso joined to inspect, clean, and repair all of the
products in use. As a result, we were able toquickly restore a total of 400 units, among the
531 units that were damaged.
FANUC will continue our efforts under thephilosophies of “one FANUC”, “Reliable,
Predictable, Easy to Repair", and “Service First”.

W i t h O u r E mploy ees
Basic Ap p r o a c h
FANUC considers its employees to be humanresources who are indispensable for theCompany's business activities. We will support thehealth and growth of our each of employees andprovide an environment that allows each employ
to attain self-realization with a sense of purpose.

I nitiativ es
Communication with Employees
FANUC recognizes that each employee's individuality,
as well as the comprehensive capabilities of ouremployees constitute the source of FANUC's growthand competitiveness. Accordingly, we believe that it isextremely vital to conduct bidirectional
communication, which properly conveys theCompany’s status, policies, and expectations to ouremployees, while also receiving input from them.
In order to enhance communication, FANUC engages
in indirect communication via the labor union, as well
as direct communication.

（１）Communication via the labor union
1) Production Council (four meetings per year)
The Council explains the Company's production status, hiring plans, work hours, and other short-term
conditions to the labor union, and receives requests from the labor union.
2) Spring labor-management negotiations (ﬁve times from February to March)
Spring negotiations are held to share the Company’s business condition and determine the working conditions
based on a labor-management agreement.
3) Regular labor-management meeting (once per month)
A forum is provided for sharing and resolving daily occupational, health and safety issues.
4) Labor-Management Overtime Management Committee (once per month)
The Committee shares the actual situations and issues regarding work hours for objectives such as work
style reforms, promotion of health, and work-life balance, and discusses directions for resolving these issues.

（２）Direct communication between the Company and employees
1) When announcing ﬁnancial results, we send a message to our employees regarding the Company’s businessperformance and the associated background, broadening their understanding of the Company’s conditions as
we strive to foster a sense of unity with employees.
2) We regularly conduct an organizational performance evaluation clinical system and listen to employee opinionsfrom the perspective of employee satisfaction, while using the PDCA cycle to discover and resolve issues.

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■ P r o m ot ion of E mplo yee D i ver si ty
Basic Ap p r o a c h
FANUC respects and supports the diversity of ouremployees, and creates an environment that accepts
diversity, based on the philosophy that diversity gives rise to
new values.
We have established various systems to realize work-lifebalance, and we are providing support to assist each
employee in leading a life that balances work and private life.
To promote the active participation of women, we aresupporting career development for our female employees,
and have opened a nursery in the Headquarters’ site.

In itiatives
Practicing Work-life Balance
FANUC considers reduction of long working hours to be anissue, and is striving to lower the maximum limit for
overtime work and promote the taking of annual vacations
as corrective measures. Annual vacations were taken at a
rate of 85% in ﬁscal year 2018, and we check theachievement status of these goals in monthly meetings
attended by executives.
Furthermore, we carry out reviews of the system to make iteasier to take vacations in addition to annual ones. In
addition to establishing a system for infertility leave, wehave added family care and infertility treatment to the
purposes used for accumulated vacation (paid). To better

promote the balance of work and child-care, we haveextended the application of the shorter working hours
system for child-care, as well as the exemption fromovertime and work on holidays for child-rearing employees
upon request, until children have ﬁnished elementary
school.
Recently, as the number of employees who have been
diagnosed with cancer or other illness and wish to continue
working while receiving treatment is increasing, we haveestablished a helpdesk to support such employees so thatthey can work while receiving treatment, by actively
promoting shorter working hours and other means.

〔Main Systems〕● Child-care leave (Return-to-work ratio: 100%; Retention
ratio one year after returning to work: 100%)● Maternity leave● Nursing-care leave (e.g., to take care of elderly parents)● Infertility leave● Subsidies for speciﬁc infertility treatment costs● Shorter working hours for child care
● Refreshment leave (can be taken after 10 years, 15
years, 20 years, 25 years, 30 years, 35 years, and 40
years of employment)● Leave due to transfer of a spouse

Promoting the Active Participation of Women
In addition to striving to ensure that employees can play anactive part in the workplace regardless of factors such as
nationality and gender, etc. FANUC has enhanced various
systems including maternity leave, child-care leave, andshorter working hours until children ﬁnish elementary
school, so that women can pursue their careers without
interruption. In this manner, FANUC fully supports the active
participation of women in the workplace.
In April 2018, we formulated and announced our General
Employer Action Plan Based on the Act on Promotion of
Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace,and we are actively promoting the recruitment of women,with the aim of improving the percentage of female
employees and the ratio of women in managerial positions.
Under this plan, FANUC has established two targets for theCompany as a whole: a 10% ratio for female regular
employees and a 5% ratio for women among newly
appointed executive employees.
To achieve these goals, we are promoting efforts such as

having female researchers visit schools and handle
company visits by female students when recruiting fortechnical positions, and promoting efforts to create
opportunities for women to discuss work and actual
lifestyles. We are also implementing initiatives such asexternal seminars to support career development for female
employees. At FANUC, 100% of the female employees who
have used the child-care leave system during the past three
years have returned to work, which conﬁrms that theCompany’s working environment is comfortable for women.
Furthermore, we opened a nursery for employees’ children
in the Headquarters’ site in April, 2019, using thecompany-initiated nursery business system, supervised by
the Cabinet Ofﬁce.
Recently, women are increasingly playing active roles invarious ﬁelds as executives, with two female employees
promoted as ofﬁcers.
We will further support the participation of women throughcontinued efforts in the future.

Employment of Persons with Dis abilities
When determining assignments, FANUC takes into accountthe characteristics of each individual's disabilities as wellas his/her aptitudes, while also considering safety aspects
so that persons with disabilities can play an active role in
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employment of persons with disabilities, by cooperatingwith the Japanese government's Hello Work employment
centers and the Yamanashi Prefecture Vocational Center
for Persons with Disabilities, and by appointing vocational
life counselors for persons with disabilities.

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Our Approach to Hiring
FANUC thoroughly implements the “prohibition of
discrimination based on race, creed, sex, social status,
religion, nationality, age, mental or physical disability,etc.” in its recruitment practices, as well. While we hireinternational students, we do not treat them in an
different manner, or discriminate against them in any
way based on nationality.

■ E m ploy e e H e alt h a nd Sa fety
Basic Ap p r o a c h
FANUC promotes the prevention of occupational
accidents and the development of a comfortableworking environment, with a view toward creatinga workplace where employees can work safely in a
h e a l t h y m a n n e r . T h e F A N U C H e a l t h a n d S a fety

Committee promotes the creation of a workplace
where each employee can stay safe and healthy,
through the formulation of our Safety Management
Policy and Health Management Policy.

Pol icies【Safety Management Policy】【Health Management Policy】

FANUC actually communicates information to each
employee by utilizing the newly introduced teamleader system for our workers at manufacturing sites,
and carry out activities to reduce the risk of disasters
by improving work guidance.

FANUC places an emphasis on preventing heat strokes
during the summer in view of recent exceptional
weather conditions, while working to maintain andmanage the physical and mental health of ouremployees.

Promotio n Fr a m ew o r k
FANUC has established the FANUC Health and Safety
Committee as an organization that mainly discusses
and determines company-wide safety and healthmanagement policies, related measures and signiﬁcantissues.
The Committee holds two meetings per year, with the
President & CEO designated as the person responsible,
and ofﬁcers of each business division and the union
leader as its members. The Safety and Health
Department of the Human Resources Division serves as

the secretariat engaged in coordinating activities.
In addition, we have established District Safety and
Health Committees based on the law in four factory
districts and ﬁve sales ofﬁce districts for health andsafety activities. Each District Safety and HealthCommittee holds meetings of the Workplace Safety
and Health Committee, which is a sub-organization per
department, to notify instructions and other mattersfrom the District Safety and Health Committees toeach workplace.

I nitiativ e s
FANUC has speciﬁed ﬁve priority activities, and are pursuing our efforts through the establishment of a promotion
department, that mainly works together with the Safety Section and each workplace.
We aim to reduce occupational accidents by setting single-year goals regarding safety management.
Preventing occupational
accidents

We will prevent equipment-related accidents through the introduction of safetyassessments at the time of installation of equipment.
We will establish a system to provide internal notiﬁcations of the cause of eachaccident and countermeasures taken, with the aim to prevent accidents.

Improving the work
environment

We will improve the work environment based on the results of working
environment assessment.

Health maintenance andpromotion

Efforts are being made to eradicate occupational diseases by conducting special
health examinations, along with follow-ups of the health examinations results.

Preventing ﬁre accidents

Efforts are made to prevent accidents by improving the management ofequipment that use ﬁre within the workplace.

Preventing cargo handling andtransport accidents

Efforts will be made to create a system for preventing forklift accidents.

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■ D ev e lopme n t an d Tra i ni ng of Employees
Basic Appr o a c h
FANUC supports the growth of our employees as

those concerned, and acting pro-actively with an eye

human resources who are indispensable for FANUC's

toward the Company’s goals.

business activities and who contribute to the value

We offer education and training in each workplace. For

enhancement of FANUC.

example, the Service Division strives to improve

We pursue human resource development to enable

customer satisfaction by providing technical educationeach employee to act as a strong individual whoto service personnel in Japan and overseas.

recognizes his or her own role, while reaching out toInitiatives
In the past, FANUC conducted employee education

regarding FANUC's aims and what each employee

mainly through OJT in each workplace. However, inshould do to achieve them.

recent years, we have come to believe that it is

We are therefore establishing training programs atnecessary to renew our efforts to instill widespread

FANUC Headquarters and in each of our overseas

understanding among employees regarding ourofﬁces.

stance as a company and our corporate culture〔Current Efforts〕
・ Education for new recruits

・ Support after obtaining external qualiﬁcations

・ Training for new executive employees

・ Support for English language training

Education and Training in the Service Division
The Service Division conducts education and training

personnel.

for service personnel. At FANUC, we believe that

In addition, we strive to further improve customer

improving the level of the services provided by oursatisfaction by giving consideration to personal

service personnel is of utmost importance. As such, we

appearance, behavior and manner of speaking, based

are working to provide high-quality services globallyon the Service Engineer Code of Conduct.

through the education and cultivation of our service

Technical education at

FANUC ACADEMY provides technical education to service personnel Japanese

FANUC ACADEMY

and overseas almost every week, utilizing training programs that incorporate
our customers’ requests.

Technical education at

We also provide technical education to service personnel at FANUC America,

principal subsidiaries

FANUC Europe, and other principal subsidiaries. With regard to education on
new models and advanced technology, the persons in charge participate inprograms offered by FANUC ACADEMY to acquire the necessary skills, anddeploy them within their ofﬁces after returning to their countries.

Introductory training

In Japan, we provide intensive education to new service personnel for four toand follow-up training

ﬁve months, at the time of onboarding.

of new employees

Service personnel hired overseas are also given training when they come to
Japan.
Furthermore, follow-up training is provided to new hires one year after joining
the Company.

Winter intensive training

In the winter, FANUC ACADEMY conducts intensive skill improvement training,(Japan)mainly with regard to new products, so that all service personnel are able toprovide high-quality service based on FANUC’s global standards.

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Data Book＜Implementation Status of Education and Training for Fiscal 2018＞

Number of FANUC ACADEMY trainees

Number of trainees trained in principal
group companies
Number of FANUC ACADEMY training
hours (annual average per trainee)

Domestic service personnel: 53
Overseas service personnel: 274

Overseas service personnel: 671

Domestic service personnel: 34.9 hours

Re s p ect for H u man Ri ghts
Basic App r o a c h
At FANUC, we respect the human rights of all persons

status, religion, nationality, age, mental or physicalinvolved in our business, based on the understanding

disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, etc.”that it is the basic principle of all activities, in

We ensure that employees do not infringe the humanaccordance with our Human Rights Policy.

rights of others through harassment prevention

In addition, the FANUC Code of Conduct prohibits

education and line-care training.

“discrimination based on race, beliefs, gender, social

Human Rights Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/humanrightspolicy_e.pdf

FANUC Code of Conduct
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/code/pdf/codeofconduct_e.pdf

Laws and International Norms of Behavior
FANUC respects human rights as deﬁned in international

Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Labour

norms, such as the Universal Declaration of Human

Organization (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental

Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political

Principles and Rights at Work, in accordance with the

Rights and the International Covenant on Economic,

guiding principles on business and human rights.

Human Rights Due Diligence
FANUC will evaluate and identify potential and actual

negative issues on human rights.

human rights risks and implement measures to avoid

When it is clear that our business has caused or hasor reduce such human rights risks.

engaged in any violation human rights impacts, we will

We will encourage our business partners and related

endeavor to implement remedies them, and will

parties not to infringe human rights if they have aestablish a grievance system as necessary.

Promoti o n F r a m ew o r k
A human rights helpdesk has been established in the

addition, the Welfare Department conducts safety

Welfare Department of the Human Resources Division,education, harassment prevention education, andwhere consultations are handled by the executive

line-care training.

employees in charge (one male and one female). In

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In itiatives
Priority Issues on Human Rights
The following items will be addressed as priority issues.

<Prohibition of Discrimination>• Prohibition of discrimination based on gender, age, nationality, ethnicity, race, place of origin, religion,
beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, sexual identity, etc.

<Respect for the Rights of Workers><Respect for the Rights of Vulnerable People>• Ensuring employee health and safety• Respect for the rights of local and indigenous peoples• Prohibition of all forms of harassment• Prohibition of child labor and forced labor• Respect for the rights of foreign and migrant
workers• Respect for freedom of association and theright to collective bargaining• Prevention of low-wage labor (labor lessrelated to our business• Respect for the rights of women, children, persons withdisabilities, minorities, and the elderly• Avoiding complicity in conﬂicts and human rights
violations relating to mineral procurement<Protection of Privacy and Personal Information>

than the minimum wage and living wage)• Respecting the privacy of customers, employees, and• Prevention of excessive amounts of overtime

other parties concerned, and protecting personal
information

Communication and Education• We thoroughly inform all employees and our group companies of our human rights policies.
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders on measures against risks and impacts on human rights.
• We will appropriately disclose and report information on our Human Rights Policy and related initiatives.

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Data BookW i t h Local C ommuni ti es a nd So c i ety
Basic Ap p r o a c h
FANUC values coexistence with our local communities.
Many of our employees have moved from other areas
to Yamanashi Prefecture, in which our Headquarters is
located, following a local lifestyle while working close
to home. FANUC employees rely on the organizations
and facilities of the local government and community
in their daily lives. Accordingly, FANUC makes efforts
to contribute to the local community, such as bywelcoming factory visits by students of local technicalhigh schools and making donations to the community.
In addition, FANUC values contributing to society.
Through the FA Foundation, we support research on
factory automation (FA) and industrial robot
technologies, and participate in the programs fortraining future robot engineers led by the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry.

I nitiativ e s
Supporting Research throughthe FA Foundation
The FA Foundation was founded in 1989 by Dr.
Seiuemon Inaba, the current Honorary Chairman of
FANUC. FANUC donated funds at the time ofestablishing the Foundation, and has made donations
to cover its operating costs since that time.
The mission of the FA Foundation is to contribute tosociety by improving automation technology, andautomating machinery and machine factories, primarily
through ofﬁcial commendations of researchachievements related to factory automation (FA) andindustrial robot technologies.
In ﬁscal 2018, a total of seven outstanding theses werecommended by the Foundation.
http://www.faf.or.jp/index.html (in Japanese)

The Consortium of Human
Education for Future Robot
System Integration
On December 18, 2019, under the initiative of the
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, industry
players, including FANUC and the National Institute ofTechnology, signed a memorandum for establishing theConsortium of Human Education for Future Robot System
Integration to develop human resources in robotics.
This initiative aims to match schools and educational
institutes with industrial players in the robotics ﬁeld. It is
hoped that such matching will introduce students andteachers to internship programs, promote the dispatchof robotics engineers from companies to schools, andfacilitate the development of future human resources in
the robotics ﬁeld.
FANUC contributes to the development of humanresources in robotics, through activities such as
internship programs for teachers and the dispatch of
lecturers to technical colleges and technical highschools.

Contributions and Donations to theCommunity around FANUC Headquarters
FANUC has donated items such as testing machines
and other equipment to the Fujiyoshida Municipal
Medical Center, which often assists us with employee
health management, thorough examinations, etc.
In addition, we make ongoing contributions to the
Yamanashi Prefecture Community Chest's “Red Feather
Community Chest”, and provide food support to thenon-proﬁt organization, “Food Bank Yamanashi”.

Factory Tours
At FANUC Headquarters, we welcome factory visits by
students of technical high schools in Yamanashi
Prefecture, which give them a chance to experience
seeing an actual manufacturing work site. We also send
employees as guest lecturers to local junior high schools.

Support for Reconstruction
in Disaster Zones
FANUC assists in the restoration of disaster-stricken
areas, in order to help disaster victims. Such activities
include donations at the time of the Great East Japan
Earthquake in March 2011, the torrential rains in the
Kanto and Tohoku areas in September 2015, theKumamoto earthquake in April 2016, and the heavy
downpours centered on western Japan in July 2018,as well as recovery support activities for disastervictims, to enable affected customers to resume
operations as quickly as possible.
Employees also engaged in volunteering activities in
the aftermath of the Kumamoto earthquake.

Inviting a City Gas Station to the Area
FANUC invited a city gas station to be built in the
Headquarters area to reduce power consumption, which
helped promote the use of city gas among local residents.

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S u p p l y C h ain M an agement
Basic Appr o a c h
FANUC purchases raw materials, electric andthe production of FANUC products, and we areelectronic parts and mechanical parts used in its

working to establish a collaborative system withproducts, and the equipment, tools and ﬁxtures

these suppliers that allows us to grow together. To

used in our factories and other facilities, as well as

this end, we strive to develop mutual trust, with aoutsourcing their machining and assembly, fromview toward fulﬁlling the social and environmental

approximately 950 suppliers. These suppliers are

responsibilities required of supply chains by

all important partners who are indispensable fordomestic and overseas communities.

CSR Procurement Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/csrprocurementpolicy_e.pdf

Promotion Fr a m ew o r k
Purchasing Department
At FANUC, the Purchasing Department is in chargelaboratories and the Production Division to activelyof the promotion and management of the supply

promote the use of multiple suppliers, in order tochain. The Purchasing Department manages the

reduce supply chain risks. In addition, with regard

quality, delivery time, and cost of suppliers, while

to parts (especially customized parts) that haveinternally sharing information on each supplier in a

only one supplier, the Department works totimely manner, as the point of contact for ourmaintain an appropriate level of inventory evensuppliers. The Department also requires suppliers

during ordinary times, so that in the event of ato comply with our CSR Procurement Policy.

disaster, these parts will be secured until the

The Purchasing Department cooperates with

supplier's factory recovers.

SCRM Working GroupFANUC has set up the Supply Chain Risk

the Group has built a system (automatic email

Management (SCRM) Working Group to consider,transmission) to investigate the safety of suppliers’

and take appropriate measures against supply

employees, as well as whether factories and otherchain risks in the event of a disaster. The SCRM

facilities have been damaged in the event of a

Working Group studies the location and area of

disaster (an earthquake with an intensity of 5 or

the manufacturing facilities for each part, so as togreater, etc.).

immediately determine which suppliers may have

The Group also investigates and analyzes ourbeen impacted, in the event of a disaster.

suppliers’ efforts toward BCP, and urges suppliers

In addition, with the cooperation of our suppliers,

to make improvements, when deemed necessary.

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In the event of natural disasters such as

in cases where the supply chain is deemed to haveearthquakes and typhoons, the Purchasing

been seriously damaged. The Disaster Response

Department conducts automatic email transmission

Team comprises personnel selected in advance(as described above), while identifying suppliers

from each laboratory, each manufacturingthat may have suffered damage based on factory

department, and the Purchasing Department.

location information studied in advance by the

These personnel work together to grasp the status

SCRM Working Group, and conﬁrms their status.

of the suppliers, and conﬁrm the delivery time of

In particular, in the event of a large-scale disaster,parts, and take supplementary measures for thosethe Disaster Response Team initiates its activities

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Data Book

I nitiativ e s
Master Transaction Agreement
The following articles are stipulated in the mastertransaction agreement we conclude with eachsupplier, and compliance to these articles is required
as important items.
Article 33 Environmental Policy and Environmental
Laws and Regulations
Article 39 Elimination of Anti-social Forces

CSR Procurement Policy
FANUC established the CSR Procurement Policy in July
2019.
The Supplier Code of Conduct is prescribed within thisPolicy. We send this Policy to each supplier and request
their compliance.

Conforming with Act against Delayin Payment of Subcontract Proceeds,
Etc. to Subcontractors
FANUC strictly complies with the Act against Delay inPayment of Subcontract Proceeds, Etc. to
Subcontractors (hereinafter the “Subcontract ProceedsAct”). Approximately 300 companies, or 30% of all of
our suppliers, are subject to the Subcontract Proceeds
Act. We pay rigorous attention to ensure that there isno unjust disadvantage to our suppliers, in accordancewith the Subcontract Proceeds Act.

Conﬂict Minerals
FANUC has a policy of not using conﬂict minerals* in
its products. Accordingly, we strive to gather as muchinformation as possible from our suppliers, in order to
conﬁrm that the minerals are not sourced by illegal
mining from conﬂict areas.
* Conﬂict minerals refer to minerals (tin, tantalum,
tungsten, and gold) that are illegally mined in
conﬂict areas (Democratic Republic of the Congoand surrounding regions). Companies listed in the
United States are required to disclose and report theuse of such minerals, under the conﬂict mineraldisclosure rule (Dodd-Frank Act) of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Reduction and Elimination ofHarmful Substances Contained in Products
FANUC promotes reduction and elimination of use ofharmful substances targeted by the RoHS Directive andthe REACH Regulation. Accordingly, we notify our
suppliers of the related policies and request theircooperation. Since new substances may be included
due to revisions of the regulations, we always strive toobtain the latest information regarding the directive
and regulations, and take measures to reduce or
eliminate harmful substances contained in products.

Goal sFANUC pursues the development of products that are“Reliable, Predictable, Easy to Repair". In the belief that
we will be able to earn a high level of customers a t i s f a c t i o n o v e r t h e l o n g t e r m b y c o n t i n u ously

supplying highly reliable product. We convey thispolicy to our suppliers to encourage them to enhance
the reliability of deliverables and other products.

Single-year Goals
So-called silent change (changes made to the qualityof deliverables, unbeknownst to the Company) at our
suppliers may have a signiﬁcant impact on the qualityof FANUC products. In order to prevent such silent
change, we require our suppliers to apply for changes
in 4M (Man, Machine, Method, Material) and obtain
FANUC's approval in the event of any changes madeto deliverables. Each year, we send documents stating

our request regarding changes to our suppliers, inorder to obtain a response indicating their consent.
If some suppliers do not consent on the grounds of
conﬁdentiality or respond by adding conditions, wehold discussions with the said suppliers and strive toincrease the number of suppliers who provide consent,so as to maintain a high level of quality without
undermining mutual trust.

Medium-term Goals
We will build a database for the centralized
management of supplier information. In addition to the
supplier's information (sales, proﬁt, items handled, andfactory information) and the supplier's relationshipwith FANUC (transaction amount, products purchased,

the contact department and PIC within the supplier),
the database will also list an evaluation of the quality,
delivery time, and cost of each supplier. In addition, we
will consider posting information such as the supplier’ sefforts on ESG-related items.

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Envi ronm e n t
E nv i r o n me n t al In it ia ti ves
Basic Appr o a c h
FANUC Headquarters is located in a stunning forest
environment adjacent to the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National
Park. We have been working to protect this wonderfulnatural environment on our premises spanning 1.78
million square meters.
In 1999, in order to conserve the global environment,in addition to protecting the nature on our premises,
we established the Environmental Policy, and havecontinued to update it since then. This policy guides
all of our environmental initiatives by summarizing andclarifying our basic stance, which is to reduce theenvironmental burden at each stage of the product life
cycle, from product development to procurement,

production, and operation.
Based on our basic vision of “leaving nature andresources to posterity”, we have been working on
reductions of CO2 emissions and energy consumption,
which are considered to be the causes of climatechange, the efﬁcient use of resources such as waterand minerals, as well as the proper disposal andreduction of waste, from both the viewpoints ofproducts and corporate activities.
FANUC shares this Environmental Policy not only
within the Company and group companies, but alsowith its suppliers to work on achieving global
environmental conservation together.

◆Basic Vision

Leaving nature and resources to posterity◆Environmental Policy and Action Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/environment/pdf/environmentalpolicy_e.pdf

Promotion F r a m ew o r k
Environmental Management Promotion Framework
FANUC recognizes that actions for the environment are
an important tasks, with the President & CEO designatedas the person responsible for the initiatives. Importantenvironmental issues, including climate change, arereported to the Board of Directors for decision-making.
Reports on the progress of FANUC's environmental
initiatives, and the direct and indirect impacts of theenvironment on our business activities are collected fromenvironmental managers assigned to the relevant

divisions, and reported at the ISO14001 meeting, which
is chaired by the Executive Managing Ofﬁcer andGeneral Manager, Production Division. Importantmatters are reported to the Board of Directors
for decision-making.
Regular reports include the setting of environmental
goals in March of each year, as well as a report onenvironmental management for the previous ﬁscal year
in June.

Environmental Management System
FANUC has acquired certiﬁcation for the international
standard for environmental management systems ISO
14001 (2015 version).
In August 1999, the entire FANUC organization was
granted ISO14001 certiﬁcation, with the registered
range being those activities related to FA, ROBOT, andROBOMACHINE products (including research anddevelopment, manufacturing, and sales & service). Thisnot only covers Headquarters (Yamanashi) but also the
Tsukuba Factory, Hayato Factory, and each of Hino,

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Nagoya, Osaka, Hokkaido, Tsukuba and Kyusyu
branches and ofﬁces. In ﬁscal 2018, our Mibu Factory
was also included.
This environmental management system applies toevery FANUC site in Japan, and also to the employees,
factories, premises, buildings, facilities, corporate
activities and environmental conservation activities
related to the products and services offered by
FANUC's domestic group companies.

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Data Book◆Scope of Application of Environmental Management System
S c ope of A p p li cati on of
Env i ronmental Man ag e m e n t
S y ste m
Support andOperations

Internal andExternal Issues

Plan

Leadership

Understandingof Needs andExpectations of
Stakeholders

Evaluation
Performance

Improvement ofEnvironmental Performance

Improvement◆Organization and StructureWith the Executive Managing Ofﬁcer and General Manager, Production Division serving as the chair, we hold
ISO14001 meetings once a year, consisting of representatives of related divisions, to determine activity plans andreview activities. Important matters at ISO14001 meetings are reported to the Board of Directors.

Board of Directors

Administration Division

Executive Managing Ofﬁcer, General Manager,
Production Division

Research & Development
DivisionInternal Environment Audit Team
Environmental
Management Supervisor

AcademyEnvironmental
Management Department

Production Division
Sales Division

Subcommittees
Local Ofﬁces
Subcommittee on Global Warming Prevention
Local Branches

Subcommittee on Chemical Safety
Subcommittee on Environment-conscious Products

FANUC KOSAN

Subcommittee on Waste Management
FF Laser Corporation（Located in Mibu Factory）

Internal Environmental Audit
FANUC conducts internal environmental audits of alldivisions every year. The purpose of these audits is to
conﬁrm that the environmental management system
conforms to ISO14001 standards and is being
appropriately implemented and maintained. To ensure
objectivity and fairness, the audits are performed byauditors selected from divisions other than those being
audited.

In cases where nonconformities are discovered in aninternal environmental audit, corrective measures are
implemented.
Thus far, there have been no serious violations of laws
or regulations, ﬁnes or civil penalties or major
spillages in relation to the environment. Furthermore,no complaints have been ﬁled regarding environmental
issues.

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Overview of Environmental Impact from Corporate Activities
Environmental Load
(use)
Electric Power
Kerosene

Environmental Load
(discharge)

Corporate Activities
Research and Development

Water

ROBOT Products
ROBOMACHINE Products

Purchasing

Chemical Substances
Raw Materials

FA Products

Exhaust Gases
Manufacturing

Wastewater

Logistics and Sales

Noise and Vibration
Chemical Substances
Waste

Goal sMid- to long-term environmental targets
Item

Mid- to long-term environmental target

Amount of electric
power used

Reduce the amount used in proportion to the level of production by 5% ormore of the ﬁscal 2015 level by ﬁscal 2020.

Amount of kerosene
usedChange from kerosene to city gas in the Headquarters area by ﬁscal 2020.

Amount of waste
liquid discarded

Using ﬁscal 2015 as reference, identify the actual amount of waste liquid
discarded in proportion to the level of production by ﬁscal 2020.
Thoroughly conduct storage management.

Amount of PRTR
chemical substances
used

Using ﬁscal 2015 as reference, identify the actual amount of PRTR chemical
substances used in proportion to the level of production by ﬁscal 2020.
Thoroughly conduct storage management.

Development ofenvironmentallyfriendly products

Implement reduction in size and weight, power consumption, and numberof service parts, while extending the product lifetime, etc., by establishing
numeric targets for the end of ﬁscal 2020.

Environmental targets for ﬁscal 2018 and performance
Item

Environmental target for ﬁscal 2018

Performance

Amount ofelectric power
used

Limit the amount used in proportion
to the level of production to anincrease by 15.2% from the previous
ﬁscal year’s level.

Target not achieved with a 21.9% increase
from the previous ﬁscal year’s level.
1) Saved electricity through efﬁcient facility
operation2) Saved electricity by improving facilities
and installing energy-saving equipment

Amount ofkerosene used

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Target achieved.
1) In some part of the headquarters area,
kerosene was replaced by city gas.

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Amount of waste
liquid discarded

Identify the actual amountof waste liquid discarded inproportion to the level ofproduction.
Thoroughly conduct storage
management.

Target achieved.
1) Utilized oil-water separators
2) Collected cutting ﬂuid attached to chips andreused it3) Used mold release materials with lessamount of waste liquid
4) Used long-life cutting ﬂuid5) Utilized distillation and regenerating
equipment6) Conducted emergency drills assuming waste
liquid leakage

Amount of PRTR
chemical
substances used

Calculate the actual amountof PRTR chemical substancesused in proportion to the levelof production.
Thoroughly conduct storage
management.

Target achieved.
1) Used cutting ﬂuid that does not contain
N,N-dicyclohexylamine
2) Used lead-free solder
3) Used coating materials that do not contain
ethylbenzene
4) Thoroughly managed storage5) Conducted emergency drills assuming
chemical substance leakage

Development ofenvironmentallyfriendly products

For main products, implement
reductions in size and weight,
power consumption, and thenumber of service parts, while
extending the product lifetimeof those parts, etc., byestablishing numeric targets
for the current ﬁscal year.

Target achieved.
1) Reduced size and weight2) Reduced power consumption
3) Reduced number of service parts
4) Improved the operating rates5) Reduced hazardous substances containedin parts

Environmental target for ﬁscal 2019
Item

Environmental target for ﬁscal 2019

Amount ofelectric powerused

The target was to reduce the power consumed in proportion to the level of production
by at least 12% compared to the previous ﬁscal year. However, it was revised due todifﬁculties in achieving the target stemming from a decrease in production. From January
2020, the target is to limit power consumed in proportion to the production to anincrease by not more than 11.8% compared to the previous ﬁscal year.

Amount ofkerosene used

Change from kerosene to city gas in the Headquarters area.

Amount of waste
liquid discarded

Using the previous ﬁscal year as reference, identify the actual amount of waste
liquid discarded in proportion to the level of production. Thoroughly conductstorage management.

Amount of PRTR
chemical
substances used

Using the previous ﬁscal year as reference, identify the actual amount of PRTR
chemical substances used for production as compared with the level of production.
Thoroughly conduct storage management.

Development ofenvironmentallyfriendly products

For the main models of individual products, implement reductions in size andweight, power consumption, and the number of service parts, while extending
the product lifetime of those parts, etc., by establishing numeric targets.

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Performan c e in Fis c a l 201 8
Amount of Electric Power Used
Actual Reduction in the Amount of Electric Power Used
As part of our efforts to reduce our output of greenhouse gases such as CO 2 and thus prevent global
warming, we are constantly aiming to reduce the amount of electric power that we use.
The power used in proportion to the level of production in ﬁscal 2018 increased by 21.9% compared tothe previous ﬁscal year’s level, and we could not achieve the ﬁscal 2018 target.

Electric Power Reduction Measures (main measures implemented by ﬁscal 2018)
1) Some machine tools in our plants were exchanged for those incorporating auto power-off devices.
2) Some of the compressors in our plants were exchanged for those incorporating inverter control.
3) Energy-saving ﬂuorescent lamps (with electronic ballasts) and energy-saving compressors (inverter type)were installed in new buildings.
4) The roofs of new buildings were changed to silver in color.
5) The roofs of new buildings were enhanced in heat insulation by duplicating them.
6) Power consumption was reduced with motion sensors.
7) Wind-shielding curtains were used for energy saving in air conditioning.
8) Measures were taken against heat emissions from compressors for energy saving.
9) Energy-saving measures were studied by energy-saving consultants.
10) Use of LED lighting was promoted.
11) Co-generation was promoted.

Amount of Kerosene Used
Kerosene Reduction Results
In some parts of the Headquarters area, kerosene was replaced by city gas.
As a result, we reduced the total amount of kerosene used by 4.1% compared to the previous year.

Amount of Waste Liquid Discarded and Amounts of Other Waste
Waste Liquid Reduction Results
Identiﬁed the actual amount of waste liquid discarded in ﬁscal 2018 in proportion to the level of production.
Improved the management of waste liquid, so as to prevent environmental pollution due to spilled waste
liquid.

Waste Liquid Reduction Measures (main measures implemented by ﬁscal 2018)
1) Reused separated water by introducing oil-water separators
2) Collected cutting ﬂuid attached to chips and reused it.
3) Used mold release materials with less amount of waste liquid.
4) Used long-life cutting ﬂuid.
5) Reused distilled water by deploying distillation and regenerating equipment.

Other Waste
Almost all waste was recycled.
We sold waste metal 27,900(t), waste plastic 36(t), and waste liquid 41(t) for recycling.

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Amount of Chemical (PRTR) Su bstances Used
PRTR Chemical Substance Reduction Results

Total Chemical Substance Control

Identiﬁed the actual amount of PRTR chemical
substances used for production in ﬁscal 2018 inproportion to the level of production.
Improved the management of chemical substances,
so as to prevent environmental pollution due tospilled chemical substances.

In order to implement the total ﬁeld control of
objects stored by divisions using chemical
substances, we conducted the following inspections
and remedied those defects found as a result of thoseinspections:1) Entry of stored objects into the ledger
2) Name indication
3) Maximum quantity of dangerous objects that canbe held in the storehouse4) Whether storage containers are free from damage
and leakage.
5) Whether periodic inspections are conducted.
6) Whether protective devices are provided.
We also conducted an emergency drill assuming
chemical substance leakage.

PRTR Chemical Substance Reduction Measures(measures implemented by ﬁscal 2018)
1) Used cutting ﬂuid that does not contain
N,N-Dicyclohexylamine.
2) Replaced HCFC 141b with other materials.
3) Used oil not containing xylene.
4) Banned the use of copper salts.
5) Banned the use of ferric chloride.
6) Used lead-free solder.
7) Used coating material containing no
ethylbenzene.

Devel opm en t o f En v ir o n m e n ta l l y F r i e n d l y P r o d u c ts
The research and development divisions evaluate the environmental impact of products, set targets and develop
environmentally friendly products.
The Product Development Subcommittee under the environmental management system prepares environmental
management plans, and product developments are conducted based on medium- to long-term plans and annual plans.
CNC System

1) Reduction in power consumption2) Minimizing down time3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction

LASER

1) Reduction in material consumption
2) Reduction in power consumption3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction

ROBOT1) Reduction in number of service parts while extending product lifetime
2) Reduction in size and weight3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction
4) Reduction in power consumption

ROBODRILL

1) Reduction in number of service parts while extending their product lifetime
2) Reduction in power consumption3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction

ROBOSHOT

1) Reduction in number of service parts while extending their product lifetime
2) Reduction in power consumption3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction

ROBOCUT

1) Reduction in number of service parts while extending their product lifetime
2) Environmental load reduction after disposal
3) Hazardous chemical substance reduction

Environm e n t a l E d u c a t io n a n d I n f o r m a ti o n D i s c l o s u r e
To fully understand the signiﬁcant environmental
aspects, risks and opportunities and to minimize,control and improve the environmental load, we
provide environmental training to all our employees.

New recruits, regular employees, people in charge of
speciﬁc tasks, and people in charge of environmental
management are educated in accordance with theirrespective tasks.
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Basic Appr o a c h
FANUC is addressing climate change throughout its
corporate activities. In the life cycle of products,
energy is consumed not only when they are
produced, but also when they are used by ourcustomers, who should enjoy higher energy-saving
beneﬁts. FANUC has long been working forcustomers’ energy-saving on top of reducing energy

consumption during production and transportation.
In order to respond to climate change, FANUC has
set medium- to long-term objectives to reduce CO 2
emissions. The objectives cover all sources ofenergy used for R&D and production activities,
including electricity, gas and oil.

Promotion Fr a m ew o r k
FANUC recognizes addressing climate change as animportant issue, with the President & CEO designatedas the person responsible for the related initiatives.
Important subjects relating to climate change are

Please see page 33 for details.

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Climate-r e la t ed Ris ks a n d O p p o r tu n i ti e s(1) Risks related to the transition to a low-carbon economy
Type

Major risks

Main initiatives

Market/Reputation

As majority of our shareholders is
ESG-conscious, expansion of ESG
related investment is likely to affect us.

We will continue to work to improve our ESG
initiatives in order to enhance corporate value.

Reputation

There is a risk of lawsuit bycustomers who claim delayeddelivery, which will be caused bylikely heavy snowfall in our
Headquarters Factories (Yamanashi
Prefecture).

In order to disperse risks, we have developed
multiple manufacturing locations in the Mibu
area (Tochigi Prefecture), the Tsukuba area
(Ibaraki Prefecture), and the Hayato area
(Kagoshima Prefecture) in addition to our
Headquarters area (Yamanashi Prefecture).

(2) Risks related to the physical impacts of climate change
Type

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Major risks

Main initiatives

Acute

There is a risk that typhoons andﬂoods will halt our service operationsin the Call Center, and in delivery of
maintenance components.

In order to diversify risks, we have established a
new service location, Nagoya Service Center inKomaki City, Aichi Prefecture in addition to theone at Hino Branch Ofﬁce (Hino City, Tokyo).

Acute

Due to the location of our
Headquarters Factories (Yamanashi
Prefecture) at the foot of Mt. Fuji (atan elevation of roughly 1,000
meters), there is a risk, for example,
that the supply of kerosene will be
cut off by heavy snowfall which may
cause our factory to stop operation.

By laying connecting gas pipeline to the mainline, we are switching energy from kerosene tocity gas.
In order to diversify risks, we have developed
multiple manufacturing locations; Mibu Factory(Tochigi Prefecture), Tsukuba Factory (Ibaraki
Prefecture), and Hayato Factory (Kagoshima
Prefecture) in addition to our Headquarters
Factories (Yamanashi Prefecture).
We are also working to minimize the impact ofsnowfall by purchasing snowplows andconstructing multilevel parking lots.

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There is a risk of procurement delaysof our suppliers caused by typhoons
and ﬂoods.

In order to reduce procurement risk by climatechange, we are studying whether our suppliers
have an ability to produce in multiple locations. If
not, we will urge the suppliers to have multiple
sites, or procure from multiple suppliers.

Chronic

There is a risk of rising temperatures
having negative impacts on our
working and production
environments.

Due to the cool-climate location (Yamanashi
Prefecture) of our Headquarters, there used to be
no needs for air-conditioning equipment in somebuildings. However, as a result of recent climatechange, it has become became necessary to havesuch equipment, while considering their efﬁciency.

(3) Climate-related opportunities
Type

Major Oppoｒtunities

Main initiatives

Products/
Services

The transition from internal
combustion engines to EVs poweredby electric motors, driven bymeasures taken by the automobile
industry to combat climate change,
may have a major effect on themarket environment for our main
products in the FA business.

The transition to EVs is expected to expand therange of robot applications leading to anincrease sales. Further, increased sales of sensors
and cameras will favorably affect the sales of
ROBOSHOT (electric injection molding machine).
Furthermore, requirements for high-precisioncomponents (to be used in EVs), as well as
demand for mold machining of such component,
will result in a growth in demand for CNC alongwith machine tools.

Products/
Services

Environments where factoryequipment are used are expected to
become harsher mainly due to therise in temperature. In addition,
impact of typhoons and risingtemperature may deterioratetransportation conditions. There may
be a greater demand for productsthat are capable of coping with suchconditions.

We have the ability to develop competitive
products with high performance and reliability tofurther increase our sales even under harsh
operating and transport conditions.

Products/
Services

There is a possibility of a growth inenvironment-conscious equipmentwith a long product lifetime.

With more than 260 service locations around theworld, we offer maintenance services for as long
our customers use the FANUC products.
By providing long-term maintenance services inmanufacturing sites, we are able to satisfy theneeds of our customers, and expect to satisfy ourcustomers even further.

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Initiatives
FANUC is promoting energy saving in its products.
There are two important initiatives, one is to conserve
energy at our customers’ factories using our products.
The other is also to conserve the energy in our own

factories. Considering the life cycle of FANUC
products, the ﬁrst initiative has a far greater effect onenergy-savings. Therefore, we have long been working
on developing energy-efﬁcient products.

Product Initiatives
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our customers’ factories.

Development oflarge-capacity servo
motors (by adopting
power regeneration
system)We have developed a high-precision, high-efﬁciency, large-capacity servo motor
fully utilizing our advanced digital control system.
In the ﬁeld of industrial machines, including press machines, which require
tremendous power, we have achieved energy saving by introducing thislarge-capacity servo motor in place of hydraulic pressure. In the servo ampliﬁer ofthis servo motor, we use a power regeneration system that returns energy to thepower supply when the motor decelerates. When mounted on a ROBODRILL, it
reduces energy consumption by approximately 34% compared with theresistance-regeneration method. Furthermore, the adoption of new power devices
has reduced energy loss of the servo drive by roughly 40%, compared with the
1995 equivalents (when installed on a ROBODRILL).

Power consumption
monitoring function

By developing power-consumption-monitoring function, we have made it possible
to monitor the amount of power consumed by our CNC and motors, enabling the
efﬁcient adjustment of the cycle time.
By using the energy-saving level-selection function, we have made it possible tochoose the type of operation: one that prioritizes cycle time and one thatprioritizes power consumption.
When sufﬁcient time is available before delivery, or when the cycle time in the
production line changes, this function can effectively adjust power consumption inaccordance with the circumstances, therefore contributing to energy saving of theentire factory.

Fast Cycle-timeTechnology

This series of functions reduces cycle time. Reducing operating time contributes toreductions in both direct and indirect energy consumption (e.g., energy
consumption by auxiliary equipment, such as in turning a coolant pump while themachine is running).

Improving the
efﬁciency of laser
electrical-opticalconversion

Improving the electrical-optical conversion efﬁciency has enhanced the wall plug
efﬁciency to 40% in ﬁber laser technology. This technology is four times more
efﬁcient than conventional CO2 lasers, which have an efﬁciency of 10%, and is 1.3
times more efﬁcient than conventional ﬁber lasers, which have an efﬁciency of 30%.

Averaging the loadof power demandNight operation using robots disperses peak power and curbs power consumption.

Reducing CO2
emissionsby reducing weight

We have reduced the weight per unit output of laser oscillators by half and indoing so, have reduced the amount of CO2 emission during transportation. CO2
lasers, with a weight per unit performance of 1,300 kg, can be replaced by ﬁber
lasers with a performance of 600 kg (based on 6 kW machines).
In addition, the design of the robot mechanical arms with lighter weight also
reduces power consumption. For the robots with a payload of 165 kg, theRobot S-4303W in 1997 weighed 1,300 kg while the Robot R-20003C/165F in2013 is lighter with weight of 1,190 kg.

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CFC substitute-free

We replaced the cooler in the laser cabinet with a Peltier dehumidiﬁer to attain a
CFC-free environment that leads to the protection of the ozone layer. No CFCs are
emitted when our customers use FANUC laser products. This also eliminates theneed to hand over ﬂuorocarbon refrigerant (for collection) at the time of disposal.

Optimal operating
programBy optimizing the operating program with ROBOGUIDE, power consumption is

Efﬁcient robot
utilization

Use of an autonomously moving, Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) withcollaborative robots allows a single robot to work in multiple locations, improving
the efﬁciency of robots. This reduces standby power, compared with installing
multiple robots.

Automatic wire
feeding device

ROBOCUT features the world's ﬁrst automatic wire feeding device with thethermal wire cutting method, which accelerates the cutting process by 200%
when compared with conventional model, and shortens operation time. In
addition, it is equipped with the world's ﬁrst automatic work thickness tracking
control, which detects the thickness of the workpiece and controls cutting power
to achieve 20% to 50% reduction in electric power consumption.

Improved
performance withnew models

Compared with the models of the previous generation (the α-3E series), the
ROBOCUT α-C3A series features a better energy-saving performance index (power
consumption per workpiece) of 4.4 kWh, which has improved from 4.8kWh (of the

reduced and the lifetime of the reducer is extended to reduce running costs.

α-3E series).
Electriﬁcation of
peripheral
equipment

Additional axis options for ROBOSHOT can electrify hydraulically controlled
peripheral equipment.

The Minister Awards of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Excellent
Energy Saving Device Award Program by the Japan Machinery Federation (1995)
ROBOSHOT Series

The Minister Award of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Excellent
Energy Saving Device Award Program by the Japan Machinery Federation (1998)
For our wire-cut electric discharge machines equipped with a high-speed automatic wire
feeding mechanism and thick plate tracking control
ROBOCUT α Series

The Minister Award of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (1999)
in the ﬁrst Global Environment Award competition
Prize of the Director General of Agency of the Natural Resources and Energy, Excellent
Energy Saving Device Award Program by the Japan Machinery Federation (2003)
For our large-capacity servo system with a power regeneration feature and precision digital control
and for our large-size AC Servo Motor α3 Series

Approved for subsidies for the introduction of energy-saving equipment for
local factories and small- and medium-sized enterprises (2014)
ROBOCUT α-C3A Series

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Production Initiatives
FANUC will contribute to energy savings in our manufacturing facilities.

Streamlining theassembly process

At the Hayato Factory (Kagoshima Prefecture), cleaning was previously carried out
using an ultrasonic cleaning device during the assembly process of ﬂexible cables.
However, this process was eliminated by reconsidering the necessity of cleaning inorder to reduce annual power consumption (by 158,976 kWh).

Introduction ofcogenerationequipment

We have introduced cogeneration systems at our new Mibu Factory (Tochigi
Prefecture) and Tsukuba Factory (Ibaraki Prefecture) to actively utilize waste heat.
They have contributed to reduce the amount of electricity purchased and fuelconsumption used for gas-ﬁred cold/hot water generators, which eventually
reduce CO2 emissions.
The annual CO2 emissions at the Mibu Factory (Tochigi Prefecture) are estimatedto have been reduced by 1,864 tCO 2 e. Because the Tsukuba Factory (Ibaraki
Prefecture) has been in operation for less than one year, results for the Tsukuba
Factory are omitted.

Consideration for theenvironment byswitching to city gas

By switching the fuel (for boilers in the Headquarters area) from kerosene to citygas, we are continuously aiming to reduce CO2 emissions by 25%, and eventually
to promote our BCP. At the same time, we are working to eliminate kerosene
tanks at during this transition in order to reduce the risk of soil contamination.

Logistics Initiatives
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Use of truck returntrips

The trucks that deliver CNC systems to machine tool builders in Japan arenormally empty on their return trips. We are notifying suppliers of the availabilityof such empty trucks so that they can use them for parts deliveries, thereby
improving the efﬁciency of truck operations (reducing the number of trucks) andreducing CO2 emissions.

Container packing at
our factories

In the past CNC systems for export were transported by truck from FANUC to aport warehouse, and were packed into containers in a port area. We have changed
the procedure and have installed equipment to ship containers from FANUC
factories, so that they can be sent directly to the packing area. This has made it
possible to reduce the number of trucks by improving the container loading rate
and by replacing trucks with trailers, which have a larger loading capacity.

Improving on-site
logistics efﬁciency

Local roads surrounding our Headquarters area used to be congested by trucks toaccommodate on-site logistics among the many factory buildings. By improving
private on-site roads, we have reduced the use of the local roads, secured trafﬁcroutes, and facilitated logistics. In the Mibu Factory, all factories are connected byconveyors, eliminating truck-based transportation within the premises. Tsukuba
Factory has eliminated the use of trucks for transport within its premises by
increasing the size of the building, and connecting all robot production processes
by conveyors within the same building.

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Initiatives at Non-production Sites

Installation of solar
power generationequipment

Solar power generation equipment has been installed in some of the buildings in
our Headquarters area. In ﬁscal year 2018, a total of 38.81 MWh was generated
from solar power.

LED lighting

We have converted mercury lamps and general-purpose ﬂuorescent lamps (usedin our factories and ofﬁces) to LEDs, and also replaced ceiling lights, guidance
lights, and emergency lights with LED lighting. In addition to the use of LEDs,
motion detectors have been installed in areas where people are not always
present, such as corridors and toilets, in order to prevent unnecessary lighting.

Cogeneration system

We have introduced a cogeneration system in our Headquarters area, using waste
heat for the welfare facilities in company housing and dormitories, as well as forthe hot water supply and heating at FANUC ACADEMY.

Building renewal

At our Osaka Branch, we have renovated the entire building, with only theframework left in place, and introduced energy-saving air-conditioners, LED
lighting, and motion detectors. We have reduced air-conditioning power
consumption by 60% and total power consumption by 40%.

Demand response

In response to a request from the power supply company, we conduct, so-called
Negawatt Transactions, to reduce power consumption when the power supply
and demand are expected to be tight.

IT infrastructure

By turning off PC monitors during breaks, estimated annual power savings is
expected to total 28,800 kWh.

Collaboration with Stakeholders

Collaboration with
suppliers

We collect information on climate change from a total of 13 companies,
composed of three manufacturing subsidiaries and 10 of our partner suppliers,
whose sales to FANUC exceed 30%. We survey suppliers regarding speciﬁc items
such as volumes of fossil fuel consumption, electricity consumption, and industrial
waste, and provide advice as needed.

Collaboration withcustomers

We conduct training for our customers in our training facility, FANUC ACADEMY, toexplain the beneﬁt of energy-saving to be achieved by using our products.
Through this training, we also explain how to operate each product, drawing thecustomers' attention to energy conservation.

Collaboration withindustry associations

We have participated in the deliberations of the Japan Machine Tool Builders’
Association, the Japan Robot Association, and the Japan Society of Industrial
Machinery Manufacturers to encourage setting of the industry target. Through theseassociations, we are making proposals to and cooperating with the Ministry of theEnvironment and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on climate change.

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R es o urce s an d W as te
Basic Ap p r o a c hUnder the vision of “leaving nature and resources tomaintenance service, they will eventually reduce

posterity”, FANUC promotes the efﬁcient use ofwastes and enjoy effective use of resources.

resources, and proper disposal and reduction of

In addition, we reduce waste and make effective use

waste.

of resources in every aspect of our businessWe will provide our lifetime maintenance for ouractivities, including development and packaging ofproducts as long as they are used by our customers.

our products and reuse of materials, as well as

As our customers do not need to discard older usedthoroughly managing the use of chemicalp r o d u c t s o r p u r c h a s e n e w m o d e l s d u e t o s u ch

substances.

Promotion F r a m ew o r k
FANUC recognizes addressing resource and waste

Important subjects relating to this management

management as an important issue, with theare reported to the board after discussions andPresident & CEO designated as the personsummarizations in our environmental management

responsible for the related initiatives.

and promotion committee meetings.

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Thorough management of chemical substances
FANUC uses chemical substances as raw materials in
production process, but we are working to reduce theuse of substances to the absolute minimum.
To ensure that our customers around the world cansafely use FANUC products, we are working to comply
with chemical substance management regulations ineach country and region, and even voluntarily comply
with stricter regulations.

Monitoring andmanaging PRTR
chemical substances

We have reduced our use of chemical substances in accordance with the PRTR
Act. As our measures have proven to be effective and the amount that can be
reduced has become limited, since 2016, we have calculated the usage inproportion to production, rather than to the absolute amount.

Compliance withhigher safety
standards

Even though FANUC products are not subject to the RoHS Directive (Directive on
the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical
Equipment), FANUC is voluntarily working to eliminate the use of hazardous
substances. In new designs, all materials, including auxiliary materials used in
manufacturing, are below the threshold dictated in the RoHS2 Directive, and weare in the process of replacing parts in existing designs.
In addition, we also support various safety standards such as CE marking
certiﬁcation, UL Standards, and GB standards, as required.

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Even for discontinued models, we provide lifetime maintenance as long as they areused by customers. As a result, FANUC products can be used at economical costfor several decades, and therefore generate minimum waste. (Also see page 19)

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Beneﬁts ofhigh-performance
products

ROBOSHOT's high molding performance reduces plastic molding defects, and its
function to support the automation of production setup will reduce downtime
between production lots, and reduces losses of materials. In injection molding, weare improving stability even when using of recycled materials from scraps andwaste.

By designing products
in small size, we
reduce weight andnumber of components

We have reduced the use of resources by designing products in small sizes andwith fewer components.
We apply modular designs to standardize parts, thereby reducing the variety ofprocured components, as well as maintenance components.

Proper maintenanceGrease can be replaced at the most appropriate time with the intelligent greasechange reminder function. The amount of grease waste is reduced gradually.

Production Initiatives

Reducing water-soluble
cutting ﬂuid

By introducing oil-water separators, we have gradually improved our throughput,
reducing water-soluble cutting ﬂuid by 10%, compared with the previous year.

Reducing failure
rates

We have made efforts to optimize solder printing settings and to reduce scratch
defects. It has improved the failure rate of CNC equipment from 0.0073 to 0.0066
per unit.

Changing our casting
methodBy changing the casting method of the arm of high-performance ROBODRILLs froma wooden die to a metal die, we have reduced cutting expenses. This has also
reduced the cycle time (per machine) from 18 minutes to 16 minutes.

Initiatives in Packaging Materials

Signiﬁcant reductionin the use of steelcases

In translating products in containers directly from a port to a warehouse, we used
to pack ROBOTs and ROBOMACHINEs in steel cases. However, we are now able
to signiﬁcantly reduce the use of steel cases by using the containers as thepacking cases. It means that we are directly packing ROBOTs andROBOMACHINEs onto containers as much as possible.

Reducing weight andincreasing density

We have changed the shipping packaging of SCARA Robots from steel skids to
cardboard packaging to improve transport efﬁciency.

Saving resources

We have changed the shape of steel skids used in transporting, while maintaining
their strength, to reduce the amount of steel used.

Reducing use of
cardboard

We have stopped using cardboard in the delivery of eyebolts from suppliers, andintroduced reusable mesh pallets. This has led to an estimated annual waste
reduction (paper waste) of 120 kg.

Adopting reusable
shipping boxes

We have stopped using packing materials in the delivery of sheet metal covers,
and adopted reusable shipping boxes with interior padding. This has led to an
estimated annual waste reduction (paper waste) of 99.6 kg.

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Transport packaging,pallets

We have changed shapes of the cardboard (boxes used in delivering CNC systems
to machine tool builders in Japan) to be reusable and by arranging delivery trucks
to collect the empty cardboard boxes to inspect them and repair for reuse.
We also send the steel skids, which are the packing material used when importing
castings, back to the foundry for reuse.

Waste liquid

We reduce the amount of waste liquid from machine tools by using
waste-liquid-recycling devices. This has resulted in an estimated annual reductionof waste liquid of 852 t.
At our Headquarters Factories, Tsukuba Factory, and Mibu Factory, we arepromoting the reduction of waste liquid by using long-life cutting ﬂuids.
In addition, at our Headquarters Factories and Tsukuba Factory, we are reducing
waste liquid by reusing the cutting ﬂuid adhered to chips (metal chips) generated
during machining.
Die-casting factories in Headquarters and Mibu are promoting the reduction ofwaste liquid by using mold release materials.

Chips and cuttingtools

We hand over chips produced during cutting at our factories, as well as cutting
tools that have become unusable due to heavy wear to recyclers, so that they canbe reused as raw materials.

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Reduction of paper
consumption

We reduce the use of paper by digitizing company documents.

LED lighting

We promote the use of LED lighting, which does not use the mercury, lead, or
cadmium contained in ﬂuorescent lamps, etc., thereby facilitating reduction in
disposal of lighting.

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W at er
Basic Ap p r o a c h
FANUC Headquarters is located in the rich naturalenvironment adjacent to the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National
Park, and we use the clean and abundant groundwaterof Mt. Fuji as a water source. The groundwater pumped
from 80 meters below is stable in terms of both volume
and quality throughout the year. We can say that
FANUC is blessed with water resources, and has almost
no risk of water shortages.
However, we are well conscious of the fact that, there
are water shortages in other parts of the world, and theUnited Nations Environment Programme has reported
that water shortages will become even more severe insome regions by 2025.
F A N U C , th e re f o re i s wo rk i n g to c o n s e rv e w at er
resources, such as through daily water recycling,
efﬂuent puriﬁcation treatment, and water quality
management.
In order to discharge higher quality wastewater, we
comply with regulated amounts of water pollutants, andmonitor the water quality through monthly inspections.

Promotio n Fr a m ew o r k
FANUC recognizes addressing the conservation ofwater resources r as an important issue, with the
President & CEO designated as the person responsible
for the related initiatives.

Important subjects relating to these resource
conservation issues are reported to the board after
discussions and summarizations in our environmental
management and promotion committee meetings.

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Initiatives in Our Headquarters Area
25 factories are located in FANUC Headquarters, all ofwhich use groundwater when required for production.
In addition, our factories reuse the water they haveused for production for cooling and other purposes.
W h e n d i s c h a r g i n g s e w a g e , w e c o n d u c t partial

puriﬁcation treatments to adjust the pH value, andcontinuously monitor our water treatment facilities. In
addition, we conduct monthly water quality
inspections to ensure high efﬂuent standards.

Reusing Water
Cyclical use ofcooling water

We circulate and reuse the cooling water that is used to cool the production
equipment in the die-cast factory at Headquarters.

Reusing wastewaterIn our ROBOT factory No. 1 at Headquarters, 41% of wastewater is reused byutilizing oil-water separators.
In our servo motor parts machining factories No. 1 and 2 at Headquarters, wereuse 11% of wastewater by making full use of distillation and regenerationequipment. In the future, our new factory (servo motor parts machining factory No.
3) is expected to be able to reuse nearly 80% of wastewater by increasing the
efﬁciency of wastewater use.

Reusing machining
liquidIn our ROBOCUT factory at Headquarters, we plan to introduce a new machining
liquid tank dedicated to testing, in order to enable 90% reuse of the machining
liquid (water) for testing during manufacturing. (Completed in December 2019)

Collaboration with Suppliers
Because our suppliers use water resources in theprocess of cooling castings, indirect use of water
resources is also an important issue.

FANUC, therefore, are asking suppliers to adopt our
CSR Procurement Policy, and to promote the efﬁcient
use and cyclical use of water resources.

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B i o d i v e rsit y
Basic Ap p r o a c hFollowing on our basic vision of “leaving nature andresources to posterity”. FANUC is striving to maintainbiodiversity, by preserving the stunning naturalenvironment of 1.78 million square meters in which
our Headquarters is located, adjacent to theFuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Our Headquarters area is home to a variety of trees,

including native forests, as well as artiﬁcially planted
Japanese larches and red pines, making it a treasure
trove of wi l d bi rds, pl an ts , an d ﬂ owe rs . We wil lcontinue to take care of the forests and plant newtrees, in order to protect the richness of the landaround Mt. Fuji, a World Heritage Site.

In itiatives
Forest Conservation Activities
FANUC Headquarters is located in a stunning naturalenvironment neighboring the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National
Park. While the greening rate is speciﬁed in this area,
we are striving to create a FANUC Forest that is moreabundant than the designated greening rate. We
maintain our forest on a daily basis, and as a result,
the trees and ﬂowers adorn the changing seasons,and various wild birds can be seen here.
When constructing factories and other buildings, weselect locations with as few trees as possible, inorder to minimize deforestation.
Furthermore, our use of land takes advantage of thenatural terrain, and we make plans that maximize
conservation of the environment, such as by ensuringthat the heights of buildings do not exceed the heightof the surrounding trees.
Since parking lots require large areas of ﬂat land, weare currently building multilevel parking lots in orderto maintain the greening rate. In the construction of
parking lots started in 2016, we have completed
seven parking lots, comprising a total of 92,250
square meters of ﬂoor space and 3,393 parking
spaces as of 2019. These multilevel parking lots havepreserved 65,300 square meters of green space.

100-year Forest Restoration Plan
Demand for timber during the wartime regime andthe period of rapid economic growth encouraged theplanting of conifers, so most tree plantations are now
coniferous. Parts of our Headquarters are also
coniferous forests that were artiﬁcially planted. Ourbasic policy for green space management in the
FANUC Headquarters is to convert these existing
planted coniferous forests into a broad-leaved forest,
which is better suited to this area, over the long-term.
The current coniferous forests have been planted formany years with fast-growing red pines, larches, ﬁrs,
etc., which are used as sand protection forests and tosatisfy demand for timber. Our aim is to convert these
artiﬁcially planted coniferous forests into rich forests

where small birds and animals can coexist, bychanging them into evergreen broad-leaved trees andbroad-leaved forests suitable for the surrounding
natural vegetation that blossom, bear fruit, and drop
leaves.
In order to steadily achieve this goal, FANUC iscooperating with the Yamanashi Forestry and Forest
Products Research Institute. We began implementing
our plan to regenerate a forest that is suitable for thenatural ecosystem of the area in 2015, and haveplanted trees since 2016. Because it is difﬁcult for thetrees to survive, we are engaging in the effort over thelong term.

Conservation of Rare Plant Species
In the premises of our Mibu Factory in Tochigi, therare plant Lecanorchis suginoana, which appears in
the Red Data Book Tochigi 2018, compiled by Tochigi
Prefecture, has been found growing. The entire area
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FANUC complies with environmental laws andregulations, and cooperates with the environmental
surveys conducted by Tochigi Prefecture.

General

SDGs

Society

Environment

Governance

Data Book

G ov ernan c e
Ov e r vie w
FANUC recognizes that a company will last forever andbe sound with “strict preciseness” and the corruption ofan organization and downfall of a company start from alack of “transparency”. Based on this basic principle ofstrict preciseness and transparency, FANUC hasestablished a governance system (internal control
system), and is striving to fulﬁll its responsibilities tostakeholders, including customers, employees,
shareholders, suppliers, and local communities, and toachieve sustainable growth as a company.

Policies
FANUC has established various governance policies and is promoting these policies throughout the Company.

FANUC Code of Conduct
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/code/pdf/codeofconduct_e.pdf

Human Rights Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/humanrightspolicy_e.pdf

CSR Procurement Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/pdf/csrprocurementpolicy_e.pdf

Information Security Policy
Guidelines for Restricting Contact with Competitors

Promoti o n Fr a m ew o r kWith regard to governance (internal control system),the Compliance Committee, which is chaired by the
Representative Director, has been established todeliberate whistleblowing cases, establish

countermeasures, and give advice to parties involved.
For important matters, the details of each case, alongwith countermeasures are reported to the Board of
Directors and the President & CEO.

C o r p orat e Gov e rna nc e
Policies
In order for the Board of Directors to fulﬁll its
monitoring functions in sync with the ﬁeld, Executive
Directors shall disclose and explain accurate andtimely information from worksites to the Board of
Directors. The Board of Directors shall not restrict
itself to theoretical discussions, but rather, shall strive
to hold discussions that are constructive. In addition,
FANUC has established the Nomination andRemuneration Committee, a majority of which
comprises Independent Outside Directors, and ischaired by an Independent Outside Director. By
increasing the objectivity and transparency of theappointment and evaluation of Directors, thiscommittee ensures the strict preciseness andtransparency of monitoring functions of management(the executive functions).

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Promotion Fr a m ew o r k a n d I n i ti a ti ve s
FANUC is a company with an Audit & Supervisory
Board. We place importance on the opinions of the
Audit & Supervisory Board Members at the Board of
Directors, while keeping the Directors (the monitoring
functions of management) and the management side
(executive functions) independent from each other.
Three of the eleven members of the Board of Directors
are Independent Outside Directors. In addition, theNomination and Remuneration Committee, themajority of which is comprised of Independent Outside
Directors, and is chaired by an Independent Outside
Director, has been established to improve theobjectivity and transparency of the monitoring of theexecutive functions.
Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Board of

Directors is conducted twice per year at meetings
where opinions are exchanged, by receiving opinions
and evaluations from Directors (especially Independent
Outside Directors) and Audit & Supervisory Board
Members. In addition, annual questionnaire surveys,
are conducted to ﬁnd necessary topics related to theevaluation. The Board of Directors deliberates on these
topics, as appropriate, and discloses the details ofthese deliberations in the corporate governance report.
Last year, there was a particularly lively exchange ofviews on strengthening internal governance as well as
corporate governance. As a result, on November 1,
2019, a part of the functions of the Legal Department
was made independent, to become the new
Governance Department.

The system for Directors’ remuneration, etc. is as follows.
The upper limit of the total amount was set at the following total amount by resolution of the 37th
Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of June 28, 2006.
1) Fixed annual aggregate ceiling amount of ¥1 billion
2) Variable aggregate ceiling amount, which is set by multiplication of the consolidated net proﬁt of eachhalf year and 1/25 of the dividend payout ratio (%). (It should be noted, however that the variable
amount for the ﬁrst half of the ﬁscal year shall be paid in the second half of the relevant ﬁscal year andthat for the second half shall be paid in the ﬁrst half of following the ﬁscal year.)
Note: The payout ratio (%) shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula for each halfyear:
Payout ratio for the ﬁrst half of the ﬁscal year (April to September)= Amount of interim dividend per share for the said period
÷ Consolidated net income per share for the said period × 100
Payout ratio for the second half of the ﬁscal year (October to March next year)= Amount of year-end dividend per share for the said ﬁscal year÷ (Consolidated net income per share for the said ﬁscal year
－ consolidated net income per share for the ﬁrst half of the said ﬁscal year) × 100
The upper limit of the total annual remuneration, etc. for Audit & Supervisory Board Members was set
at ¥250 million by resolution of the 45th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of June 27, 2014.
The environmental issues, the target goals, implementation status, and achievement evaluations arereported to the Board of Directors, and they are subject to evaluations as one of the important
subject for monitoring by the Board of Directors.
In addition, we have concluded an agreement with a specialized consulting ﬁrm since 2019 in an aim
to improve corporate-wide ESG efforts.

Goal sThe Board of Directors aims to realize the following activities in the future.
● Promote the diversity of the Board of Directors, primarily by appointing female Directors.
● Increase the number of Independent Outside Directors to at least one-third of the entire Board.
● Promote the sharing of management information with Independent Outside Directors, in order to stimulate thediscussion in the Board meetings.

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SDGs

Society

Environment

Governance

Data Book

Co m plian ce
Promoti o n Fr a m ew o r k a n d I n i ti a ti ve s
Based on the FANUC Code of Conduct, which isderived from the basic principle of “strict precisenessand transparency”, we have established basic rules forcompliance, including anti-corruption policy. In
addition, we have established detailed rules forcomplia n c e , a n d d e p l o y e d t h e m i n t e r n a l l y

Whistleblowing System
FANUC has established a system under which ofﬁcers
and employees of FANUC and its domestic
subsidiaries can make whistleblowing reports to
FANUC’ s internal and external contacts thoroughhotlines. We are also gradually expanding those
hotlines to overseas group companies so that ofﬁcers
and employees may report directly to FANUC
Headquarters. We have established the“Whistleblowing System Operation Rules” for theabove-mentioned reports in Japan and abroad, inorder to ensure the protection of the whistleblowers.

Response to Various Risks
Risk management ofﬁcers shall establish rules andguidelines, conduct training, and create and distribute
manuals and other matters regarding corporate risks
mainly related to legal compliance, environment,
disasters, quality, and export control, etc. When a newrisk emerges, a risk management ofﬁcer shall bepromptly assigned to deal with the risk. In addition,
the Internal Audit Department, which reports directly
to the Representative Director, conducts risk
management audits regarding the status of affectedbusiness execution.

through our “Human Rights Policy”, “CSR
P r o c u r e m e n t P o l i c y ” , “Guidelines for Restricting
Contact with Competitors” pursuant to the
Antimonopoly Act, “Trade Secret Management Rules”,“Personal Information Management Rules”, “Rules on
Preventing Insider Trading”, etc.

Compliance
Issues related to compliance are discussed by theCompliance Committee, which is chaired by the
Representative Director, and important issues arealways reported to the Board of Directors and thePresident & CEO. In addition, the Management
Meeting, which mainly comprised of the heads of eachbusiness divisions, deliberates also on these issues.
Furthermore, the latest cases of whistleblowing isreported to the Board of Directors at least twice ayear, so that adequate deliberations are made on
related compliance issues as necessary.

Cyber Security
Business risks are deliberated by the Board of Directors,
as appropriate. In particular, cyber security, which has
become an increased threat in recent years, has been
identiﬁed as an important issue, and, therefore, both a
Chief Information Security Ofﬁcer (CISO) and a Chief
Information Ofﬁcer (CIO) have been appointed. We arealso focusing our efforts to ensure an adequate andappropriate response to corporate risks, such as bymaking a start of operation of a security monitoringteam (security operation center, or SOC) under the
newly established Cyber Security Committee.

Goals
By 2020, FANUC plans to expand the current
whistleblowing system to overseas group companies,
clarify and disclose our anti-corruption policies, andenhance corporate business risk assessment, among
others.

Some of t h e A c h iev em e n ts
In 2019, FANUC formulated and disclosed our Human
Rights Policy and CSR Procurement Policy. As of 2020,
we have also formulated new policies including

Guidelines for Restricting Contact with Competitors,
pursuant to the Antimonopoly Act.

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D A T A BOOK
E SG D AT A

Environment
Policies
Environmental Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/environment/policy.html

Cl imate Ch a ng e

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

GHG Scope １

6,521.60

7,189.30

7,864.40

14,254.00

25,213.20

305-1

GHG Scope 2

88,981.50

80,915.50

95,515.80 112,524.00 108,563.60

305-2

Boundary

Unit

GHG Scope 3ー

1. Purchased goods andservices

ー

ー

ー

ー

684,585.69

305-3＊There is no

2. Capital goods

ー

ー

ー

ー

400,649.06

305-3

other Greenhouse

FANUC
3. Fuel-and-energy-related CORPORATION
activities（not included in
Scope 1 or 2)

ー

ー

ー

ー

13,703.90

305-3

4. Upstream transportationand istribution

ー

ー

ー

ー

4,917,558.69

305-3

5. Waste generated inoperations

ー

ー

ー

ー

2,597.74

305-3

6. Business travel

ー

ー

ー

ー

494.26305-3

7. Employee commuting

ー

ー

ー

ー

2,401.20

305-3

GHG Emissions

Gas (GHG)
emission othert-CO 2than CO2.

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SDGs

Society

Data Book

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

8. Upstream leased assets

ー

ー

ー

ー

0.00

305-3

9. Downstream
transportationand distribution

ー

ー

ー

ー

4,386,565.85

305-3

10. Processing of soldproducts

ー

ー

ー

ー

0.00

305-3

11. Use of sold products

ー

ー

ー

ー

1,297,612.80

305-3

ー

ー

ー

ー

10.31

305-3

13. Downstream leased
assets

ー

ー

ー

ー

0.00

305-3

14. Franchises

ー

ー

ー

ー

0.00

305-3

15. Investments

ー

ー

ー

ー

0.00

305-3

Total for categolies
1 through 15

ー

ー

ー

ー

11,706,179.50

305-3

0.13

0.14

0.19

0.17

0.21

305-4

ー

33.00

223.70281.30548.70

305-6

2.27

2.09

1.70

1.34

2.13

305-6

2.27

35.09

225.40282.64550.83305-6

12. End of life treatmentof sold products

Unit

t-CO 2GHG Emissions per Consolidated sales(million yen)ー

Direct HFC Emissions

HFC and HCFC
Emisssions

GovernanceFiscal2014

Boundary

GHG Emissions＊There is noother Greenhouse
Gas (GHG)
emission otherthan CO2.

Environment

Direct HCFC Emissions

FANUC
CORPORATION

t-CO 2

Total

GJ

1,699,686.40 1,620,374.25 1,937,410.28 2,449,918.13 2,598,471.13

302-1

Thousands
170,480.08 162,525.00 194,324.00 245,729.00 260,629.00
of kWh302-1

Electricity Used

GJ

377.88374.36360.00394.77386.97

302-1

Thousandsof kWh

37.90

37.55

36.11

39.60

38.81

302-1

9,618.43

5,175.00

12,762.59 142,793.33 396,942.53

11.37

5,940.60

10,768.53

14,060.07

12,641.78

ー

4,672.54

2,224.30

1,998.10

2,488.20

6,107.40

302-1

Kerosene Used

77,451.68

89,070.90

85,400.90

78,281.10

51,783.70

ーHeavy Oil A Used

534.50547.40430.10

39.10

0.00

ー

Renewable Energy
Used

City Gas Used

302-1

EnergyConsumption
LPG Used

Diesel fuel Used
GJ

Total

1,792,352.78 1,723,706.81 2,049,130.50 2,687,974.69 3,066,333.51

302-1

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Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

ー

2.46

2.76

3.82

3.70

4.82

302-3

Thousandsof kWh

37.90

37.55

36.11

39.60

38.81

302-1

Sites

31

31

31

32

33

ー

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Raw Materials Used (Resources for Packaging)t

2,402.6

2,255.2

2,081.1

2,815.3

2,980.6

301-1

Total Wastet

2,750.0

2,324.1

2,304.6

3,067.4

3,143.6

306-2

Waste Recycledt1,760.5

1,387.9

1,481.6

1,882.6

1,984.1

306-2% of Recycled Material

%

64.0

59.7

64.3

61.4

63.1

301-2

t

19.0

16.5

16.6

22.1

23.8

306-2

Hazardous Waste

t

0.9

0.1

0.0

5.0

48.52※

306-4

NOx Emissions

t

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

305-7

SOx Emissions

t

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

305-7

VOC Emissions

t

36.5

52.0

62.5

71.7

62.9

305-7

Boundary

Energy Consumption per Consolidated
sales (million yen)
Total Amount of Renewable Energy
Purchased or Generated

FANUC
CORPORATIONFANUC

ISO 14001 Certiﬁed Sites

CORPORATION,
FANUC KOSAN LTD

Resources a n d W a s t e

Boundary

Waste Sent to Landﬁlls

FANUC
CORPORATION※Due to the disposal of low concentration PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) wastes.

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Governance

Data Book

Water

Total Water Used

Total Wastewater

Boundary

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

FANUC
CORPORATION(Headquarters Area,
Mibu Area,
Tsukuba Area,
Hayato Area)

Thousandsof kWh689.275

654.511735.25874.868

879.793

303-3

Thousandsof kWh400.555445.098477.976507.169

533.437

303-4

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Violations

0

0

0

0

0

307-1

Yen

0

0

0

0

0

307-1

Comp lia n c e

Boundary

Number of Environmental Fines and Penalties
FANUC
CORPORATION

Total Cost of Environmental Fines

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Society
Policies
Human Rights Policy
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/esg/social/humanright.html

Customer

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Persons

3,429

4,195

4,347

4,151

5,186

404-2

out of 5

4.33

4.4

4.44

4.47

4.51

ー

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Persons

194

221

232

255

275

102-8

Persons

2,570

2,821

3,014

3,240

3,527

102-8

Persons

2,764

3,042

3,246

3,495

3,802

102-8

Persons

5,840

6,327

6,738

7,163

7,866

102-8

Women

Year

16.5

14.7

14.8

13.9

13.5

102-8

Men

Year

17.8

16.6

15.9

15.2

14.3

102-8

Total

Year

17.7

16.5

15.8

15.1

14.3

102-8

Age

44.5

43.5

43.2

42.4

42.2

102-8

Men

Age

43.7

42.9

42.1

41.5

40.7

102-8

Total

Age

43.7

42.9

42.2

41.5

40.8

102-8

Full-Time Staff Voluntary
Turnover Rate
Excluding Retirements

％

0.6

0.5

0.7

0.4

0.9

401-1

Boundary

Number of trainees at FANUC ACADEMY
Satisfaction rating on trainees
at FANUC ACADEMYFANUCCORPORATION

E mp loyees

Boundary

Women

Men

Number of
Employees

FANUC
CORPORATION

Total

consolidated basis

Average Numberof Consecutive
Years Served

Women

Average Age of
Employees

Employee
Turnover Rate

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Group

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CORPORATION

General

SDGs

Society

Environment

Governance

Data Book

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Women

Persons

22

34

15

27

25

401-1

Men

Persons

147

295

250

295

362

401-1

Total

Persons

169

329

265

322

387

401-1

% of Female Employees in New Hires

％

13.0

10.3

5.7

8.4

6.5

401-1

Female Share of Total Workforce

％

7.0

7.3

7.1

7.3

7.2

102-8

Persons

10

13

13

9

5

102-8

％

2.2

2.7

2.4

1.6

0.9

102-8

Persons

30

34

38

38

44

102-8

％

2.5

2.7

2.9

2.8

3.1

102-8

Women

Persons

10

13

13

15

16

401-3

Men

Persons

0

0

0

0

0

401-3

Persons

10

13

13

15

16

401-3

Women

Persons

12

13

19

20

24

401-3

Men

Persons

0

0

0

0

0

401-3

Total

Persons

12

13

19

20

24

401-3

％

1.96

2.10

2.09

2.10

2.26

102-8

Median Compensation of Employees

Millionsof Yen

12.7

15.7

13.1

13.4

13.6

102-8

% of Employees Unionized※ Employees Unionized/Employees（Including contract employees）

%

34.1

35.6

38.2

38.2

40.1

ー

Sites

0

0

0

0

0

ー

Injuries from Occupational Accidents

Persons

ー

ー

ー

25

12

403-2

Number of Work-Related Fatalities

Persons

0

0

0

0

0

403-2

Lost time injury (LTI) frequency rate ※１

ー

ー

ー

ー

2.07

1.01

403-2

Occupational Illness Frequency Rate ※2

ー

0

0

0

0

0

403-2

Millionsof Yen

125

295

343

164

92

203-1

Boundary

Number of Newly
Hired Employees

Number of Females in Management Positions% of Females in Management Positions
Number of Females in executive employees% of Females in executive employees

Paid Maternity
Leave

Total

Shortened Working
Hours for Childbirthor Childcare Purposes% of Disabled in Workforce

OHSAS 18001 Certiﬁcation Sites

Total Donation Amounts

FANUC
CORPORATION※１ total number of lost time injury events ÷ Total working hours × 1,000,000※２ Number of lost-day occupational illness cases ÷ Total working hours × 1,000,000

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Corporate Governance
FANUC Code of Conduct
https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/ir/code/index.html

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Number of Internal
Directors

Members

11

11

10

10

10

102-22

Number of Outside
Directors

Members

1

3

3

3

3

102-22

Total

Members

12

14

13

13

13

102-22

Times

13

14

13

14

12

102-28

Members

0

0

0

0

0

102-28

Members

2

2

2

2

2

102-22FANUCCORPORATION Members

3

3

3

3

3

102-22

Members

5

5

5

5

5

102-22

Times

3

5

3

4

4

102-28

%

0

0

0

0

0

102-28Internal Directors（performance-based pay）
（ﬁxed compensation）

Millionsof Yen2,596(1,686）
（910)

3,731
(2,838）
（893)

2,791
(1,859）
（932)

3,124
（2,181）
（943）

3,474
（2,530）（944）

102-35Internal Audit & Supervisory
Board Members

Millionsof Yen

161

162

163

162

162

102-35

Outside Directors and Outside
Audit & Supervisory
Board Members

Millionsof Yen

63

99

108

108

108

102-35Boundary

Number of
Directors

Number of Board Meetings

Number of Directors Attending Less Than
75% of Board Meetings
Number of Internal
Audit & Supervisory
Board Members

Number of Audit &Supervisory Board
Members

Number of Outside
Audit & Supervisory
Board Members

Total

Number of Audit Committee Meetings

Number of Auditors Attending Less Than
75% of Board Meetings

Total amount of
Executive
remuneration※

Regarding director remuneration, the amount for internal director consists of ﬁxed compensation andperformance-based pay, and Internal Audit & Supervisory Board Members and Outside Directors and Outside
Audit & Supervisory Board Members receive appropriate ﬁxed compensation from the perspective of ensuring
independence, both of which are decided by the Board of Directors within the framework below agreed upon at
the shareholders’ meeting.
The upper limit of the total annual remuneration, etc. for Directors was set at the following total amount byresolution of the 37th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of June 28, 2006.
(1) Fixed compensation framework with annual amount not exceeding ¥1 billion(2) Variable compensation framework, calculated by multiplying the consolidated net proﬁt for every
six-month period at a rate of 1/25th of the dividend payout ratio.
(Note that the ﬁrst-half amount will be paid in the second half, and the second-half amount will be paid in theﬁrst half of the following ﬁscal year.)
Note: Dividend ratio (%) is calculated biannually as below
Dividend payout ratio for ﬁrst half (April through September of the same year) = Interim dividend per share /Consolidated interim earnings per share x 100
Dividend payout ratio for second half (October to March of the following year) = Year-end dividend per share /(Consolidated earnings per share for full year – consolidated interim earnings per share) x 100
The upper limit of the total annual remuneration, etc. for Audit & Supervisory Board Members was set at ¥250
million by resolution of the 45th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of June 27, 2014.

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General

SDGs

Society

Environment

Governance

Data Book

Accounting AuditsCompensation of
Accounting Auditors

Boundary

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

FANUC
CORPORATION

Millionsof Yen

36

36

36

38

43

ー

Boundary

Unit

Fiscal
2014

Fiscal2015

Fiscal2016

Fiscal2017

Fiscal
2018

Code
(GRI
standards)

Violations

ー

1

4

7

5

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Violations
CORPORATION

0

0

0

0

0

205-3

0

0

0

0

0

205-3

Compliance

Number of reports ﬁled throughwhistle-blowing system/company hot-line system※
Number of Fines and Penalties
for Corruption
Total Cost of Fines and Penalties
for Corruption

Yen※Operation start in March 1, 2016.

Shareholder Rights

Anti-Takeover MeasuresNone

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