1. Philosophy

At JSR, we are focused on work-style innovation activities to improve competitiveness and realize sustainable growth for both the company and our employees.
To reach this goal, the company must encourage the success of diverse employees, departments must develop systems capable of achieving their organizations’ “ideal form,” and employees must work vigorously and in good health while balancing their work and home life. With this in mind, we analyze our operations and fundamentally review how we work while applying digital capabilities. And we promote initiatives for realizing diverse work styles while dramatically improving productivity.

2. Advancement Structure

A team dedicated to work style innovation promotes the formulation of basic policies and the planning and execution of related measures. Under the Work Style Innovation Team’s leadership, departments discuss the “ideal form” of their organization, identify challenges, and execute concrete measures with the participation of each employee. Management is also committed to these activities. For example, management establishes opportunities for assigned officers to report on the measures that departments propose.

3. Codes of Conduct

JSR Corporation provides a work environment that facilitates flexible “work-life management” for employees and strives to improve both productivity and employee satisfaction. Work-life management is also an essential part of diversity management that strives for an organization with a diverse workforce. We will therefore pursue diversity simultaneously, as we know that it leads to a corporate culture that is open to diverse values and work styles.

4. Main Activities

Each department considers and executes “work styles” that bring it closer to the “ideal form” it prepared for its organization.
Once a year, the Corporate Audit Department and Diversity Development Office conduct a detailed interview with each department to ascertain its circumstances, thereby identify problems within the department as well as cross-organizational problems, and then report to management.
At all levels—from management on down to rank-and-file employees—we promote discussion of not only schemes for fostering diverse work styles and the advancement of IT, but also of what constitutes the best “work style” for each person, which includes mental aspects.

Examples of initiatives undertaken in departments

• Improved labor efficiency in regularly-scheduled repairs in plant districts
• Study of high-location inspections with drones^*1 in plant districts
• Use of a chatbot^*2 function for responding to common inquiries
• Promotion of IT democratization^*3 by systems departments and use of simple web systems that can be created with knowledge of Excel

*1 A small unmanned aircraft that can be operated by remote control

*2 An automatic conversation program that uses artificial intelligence

*3 Improvement activities conducted together with systems strategy department members to help employees in charge of practical operations improve their productivity with IT

We're testing the use of drones to inspect equipment at high altitude in a factory.

On November 2019, an inspection was carried out to make an over-the-air inspection of the operating high pressure gas/hazardous materials plant at the Yokkaichi plant. This was the first time in Japan to conduct a verification over an operating plant and the relevant government agencies (fire department, Mie prefecture (departments related to high pressure gas), and the city of Yonkyo) also witnessed the verification.
So far, various risk assessments have been carried out at the company's Kashima plant, including tests on the possibility of drones falling onto plant equipment, and the fact that we have accumulated flight results led to this verification.
The use of drones in a plant can be expected to increase the efficiency of facility inspections, which have been carried out using manpower and manpower, and expand the scope of inspections to include higher areas, as well as reduce inspection costs and enable quicker on-site inspections in the event of a disaster.
JSR aims to promote the safe and effective use of drones to further improve the security of plants.

Photo taken by a drone at an altitude of 60 m.
The image on the left was taken by an RGB camera and the one on the right was taken by a thermal imaging (IR) camera.
The temperature of the fluid inside the plant can be determined.

Photo taken by a drone at an altitude of 60 m.
The image on the left was taken by an RGB camera and the one on the right was taken by a thermal imaging (IR) camera.
The temperature of the fluid inside the plant can be determined.