Manufacturing

Manufacturing—one of Japan’s core industries—faces acute challenges: securing talent amid a shrinking workforce; transferring expertise from veteran employees; and strengthening competitiveness and accelerating localization in overseas markets that now account for the bulk of revenues. Transforming operations—shaped over the past several decades around the domestic market—into models fit for a fundamentally different environment has now become an urgent imperative. 

On the product and service side, digitalization requires built-in connectivity and continuouspost–launch upgrades. Value now extends well beyond hardware and point–of–sale functionality; software–driven features and over–the–air improvements have become essential to differentiation. 

Global supply chain networks also require an urgent redesign, with traceability–at the core  and greater flexibility, driven by economic–security concerns and the need to navigate new tax and tariff regimes measures that diverge from past practice. 

Fortience Consulting helps clients tackle these challenges with GenAI–enabled strategy from design through execution, digital enablement via IoT and software, and advanced operating models that integrate—real–time control, nextgeneration value chain collaboration, and ecosystem re–design.