At the end of the 90s, the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of human and machine was pri\u00admarily viewed as a high cost factor by Japanese com\u00adpa\u00adnies. This was the period, specif\u00adi\u00adcally in 1997, when Pilz opened its first sub\u00adsidiary in Japan in Yoko\u00adhama. Since that time, the employees, cur\u00adrently num\u00adbering 22, have been ded\u00adi\u00adcated to increasing safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2000 Safe\u00adtyBUS p Club, which is now called Safety Net\u00adwork Japan, was founded by Pilz Japan and other member com\u00adpa\u00adnies like the auto\u00admo\u00adtive man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturer Toyota and the automa\u00adtion com\u00adpany Hokuyu. The organ\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtion raised aware\u00adness for greater safety and a reduc\u00adtion of work acci\u00addents in Japan by offering pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions on machinery safety and the cur\u00adrent trends in func\u00adtional safety. But what\u2019s the Japanese leg\u00adis\u00adla\u00adtion setup like? Employ\u00adment law was adapted in 2006 so that interest in safe automa\u00adtion is growing. Even though the law does not make any binding spec\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions, safety is becoming more rel\u00ade\u00advant and con\u00adscious\u00adness is changing. Safety and secu\u00adrity are less likely to be con\u00adsid\u00adered as cost fac\u00adtors, and instead as a \u201cmust-have\u201d in modern indus\u00adtrial envi\u00adron\u00adments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is still much work to be done, espe\u00adcially in the food and pack\u00adaging indus\u00adtries. For example, Pilz Japan first per\u00adformed a risk assess\u00adment for an inter\u00adna\u00adtional food group. The cus\u00adtomer thus became aware of the automa\u00adtion solu\u00adtions and the training offer from Pilz. Now the cus\u00adtomer is inter\u00adested in training its employees in South Korea in machinery safety. \u201cOur cus\u00adtomers nat\u00adu\u00adrally export their plants abroad, which is why it is impor\u00adtant for them to have a reli\u00adable expert by their side to \u00adsup\u00adport them during the cer\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of their plant and machinery,\u201d explains Olivier Ligibel, Gen\u00aderal Man\u00adager of Pilz Japan. As a German com\u00adpany, Pilz is pre\u00adceded by its good rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion, as \u00adGer\u00admany is con\u00adsid\u00adered a pio\u00adneer when it comes to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not only large cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions deal with safety mat\u00adters, argues Olivier Ligibel: \u201cWe are seeing a growing interest in safety and secu\u00adrity among smaller com\u00adpa\u00adnies. Many of them are still put off by the invest\u00adments, but recog\u00adnise the growing impor\u00adtance.\u201d In other words, there is still much to do after the anniver\u00adsary cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion, as safety and secu\u00adrity are cur\u00adrently in demand in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While on Euro\u00adpean fac\u00adtory floors it is normal for per\u00adsonnel to feel safe when working on plant and machinery thanks to laws and stan\u00addards, in other places around the world there is still work to be done to con\u00advince people to carry out tech\u00adnical safety mea\u00adsures. Like in Japan, where Pilz Japan has been helping change minds for 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-issue-2-2022","category-pilz-worldwide","category-pilz-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}