Strategies for Digital Technology in Small and Medium-sized Manufacturing: The Case of Saito-seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Abstract

Digital technology is widely used in everything from design and development of industrial products to production.

Because of its characteristics, digital technology has various effects on business management, manufacturing sites and elsewhere.

Of these characteristics, this paper focuses on the “standardization of technology”, examining how it affects the small and medium-sized manufacturing sector from case studies, and discussing the strategies for dealing with digital technologies in small and medium-sized manufacturing.