A large screen at the entrance of the workshop shows real-time data on the operational status of each machine in the workshop. In the Omron factory in the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, with the Internet of Things technology, all the data generated in the production process are collected and recorded, and the problems can be adjusted in time for production management, and the resulting non-conforming products can be traced back to which step. Wrong.
This is a microcosm of Japan’s fourth industrial revolution.
In addition to the spontaneous technological innovation at the corporate level, the Japanese government has also proposed a new strategy for the future.
Last year, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed a new economic growth target. In 2020, Japan’s GDP will reach 600 trillion yen. To support this goal, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry proposed the fourth industrial revolution strategy. The core technology direction of this strategy is three, namely, Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence.
Why is Japan’s fourth industrial revolution late?
"The initial concept of the fourth industrial revolution comes from the German Industry 4.0 strategy and the US advanced manufacturing national strategy, as well as China's China Manufacturing 2025, Internet + and other strategies. Japan is the fourth industry proposed after studying these policies. Revolution." Tian Zhongying, International Director of the Industrial Technology Policy Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, told the 21st Century Business Herald.
Since the Japanese economic bubble burst in the 1990s, the country’s economy has been in a state of persistent stagnation, and the past two decades have been described as Japan’s “lost twenty yearsâ€.
The bursting of the economic bubble has had a great impact on the innovation and vitality of Japanese society. In order to enhance the vitality of the economy and society, Japan has enacted the Basic Law on Science and Technology and the Basic Plan for Science and Technology in 1995.
Among them, the basic plan for science and technology has experienced four phases since it was officially implemented in 1996. As with China's "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" starting from this year, Japan's fifth phase of the basic science and technology plan will start in 2016 and continue until 2020. Unlike the previous four issues, the fifth phase of the policy focuses on future industrial manufacturing and social change.
Compared to Germany, the United States, and China, Japan’s fourth industrial revolution is a bit late. Moreover, Japan’s policies were also proposed after referring to the strategies of these countries.
In this regard, Tanaka believes that Japan lags behind others in the creation of new concepts. What is needed now is to keep up with the new international dynamics and give play to Japan's advantages in industry and services to achieve differentiated development.
In an interview with the 21st Century Business Herald, the level of Japanese manufacturing and service industries, both officials of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and ordinary business people are full of self-confidence. They believe that as long as Japan looks for the direction of future technological social change, although it starts late, it can still surpass others by virtue of manufacturing and service.
Of course, Japan’s fourth industrial revolution still faces many difficulties.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s industrial technology policy director Watanabe Kazuo said that although Japan’s manufacturing is cheap and good, under the economic globalization, Japan cannot rely on this advantage alone, but needs a new innovation system, but many The concept of the company has not changed.
In Japan, big companies are an important economic force. But over the years, Japan’s economic stagnation has also been linked to the lack of vitality of big companies. Large Japanese companies are accustomed to starting from basic research and development, but in a rapidly changing new market environment, individual companies, even large ones, can't cope.
Due to fierce competition in the Japanese market, corporate investment is focused on short-term results. If a technology product cannot be commercialized within three to five years, the company will not invest, which makes the company's innovation have greater limitations.
In addition, R&D funds are less invested in universities and research institutions, and there is less cooperation between companies and universities and research institutions, which also makes Japan face major problems in basic research.
More crucially, many R&D in Japan are mainly facing the domestic market, which is isolated from the international community and lacks normal communication, making Japan's R&D environment an isolated island. A study by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry shows that in the field of mobile phone development, whether it is Apple or Android phones, candy bars have become the most mainstream trend, and Japan is still developing folding phones, which is similar to the isolation zone in evolution, which is Japan alone. A typical failure case for R&D.
Therefore, after the fourth industrial revolution is proposed, Japan urgently needs to solve many problems facing innovation.
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