DX promotion
Mitsubishi Steel established the DX Promotion Office in 2021 as part of efforts to promote digital transformation (DX) throughout the organization. Beyond simply deploying IT to make business processes more efficient, DX seeks to leverage IT and other digital technologies to transform products, services, and business models and generate new value.
In an era of dramatic change in society and progressive advances in digitalization, Mitsubishi Steel positions DX promotion as an important management strategy. The DX Promotion Office has set the following goals under the ideal vision for 2030:
- 1To transform customer service and workplace processes, strengthen customer satisfaction, and grow sales and profits
- 2To enable swift management decision-making by linking operations throughout the organization and making management information visible
- 3To build rewarding workplaces by connecting individual sections, thereby strengthening employee engagement
In August 2023, our company was certified as a “DX Certified Business Operator” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the certification was renewed in August 2025. The certification is valid until the end of July 2027.
- List of Certified Businesses under the DX Certification System
Basic DX policy
We will advance structural reforms supported by data and digital technologies.
Road map
We’ve been determined to develop platforms for DX implementation throughout 2023 to 2025 to prepare for the full-scale DX initiatives and implementation planned from 2026 and beyond.
Organization for DX promotion
The DX Promotion Office was established under the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) to achieve corporate reforms based on a broad perspective that transcends the framework of business divisions. This Office is in charge of planning and configuring DX projects. We’ve assigned a DX promotion leader to each section and established an organizational structure that allows management to monitor the on-site progress of DX efforts and the precise and rapid communication of management perspectives to those stationed at work sites.
Future prospects and strategies
We plan to take four key initiatives to create new added value.
❶ Data analysis infrastructure development
We’re seeking to achieve centralized management through integrating diversified data to build our data analysis infrastructure. Through infrastructure developments, we plan to promote data-driven decision-making and to accelerate Companywide reforms in areas ranging from business improvements to management decision-making
❷ DX business human resource development
To strengthen IT literacy among all our employees, we’re implementing various training programs and focusing on developing core DX promotion human resources. With the goal of developing 150 core human resources by FY2030, we’re implementing specialized training to secure the human resources needed, placing them in important positions in the organization to accelerate DX promotion through communication from these core human resources, to create new value.
❸ Generative AI
Generative AI is expected to find applications across a wide range of fields, boosting productivity and business efficiency. Among Company administrative and engineering personnel, 55% have been licensed (as of September 30, 2025) as we seek to create new added value while promoting business efficiency improvements.
DX Cases
Issues
● Labor-savings and passing on skills ● Collection and analysis of quality data ● Deviations in productivity and quality due to varying worker skills
➡Realizing affordable solutions by using DX to improve existing equipment
● Integrating complex work under a single general-purpose controller
● Data collection and accumulation and automated work controls using single board computers (SBCs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs)
Results
● Development of control programs based on operation data
● Reducing deviations in finish through automated process controls
● Preventing operational errors
● Shortening the time until young employees master processes
Future outlook
● Targeting full automation through analysis of operation data and enhancement of sensor technologies
● Using connections and outstanding general performance for transfer to other equipment
Digitalization of work instructions in powder alloy production
