Until now, only conceptual approaches have been considered in the area of concept formation and architecting, which is the most upstream part of systems development. Presently the infrastructure for generating new discoveries by composing various fragments of knowledge is being developed as generative AI, and its use in the upstream in the systems engineering is now expected. In this presentation, applicability of generative AI to the upstream of systems engineering is examined in the regional development tasks.

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To solve complex issues involving multiple domains, a System of Systems (SoS) configuration is required. Each of these domains is assumed to have its own DX, and they will be merged. This paper introduces our efforts to build a foundation for the fusion of multiple systems architectures described as DX and SoS architectures, respectively. Systemigram, Archimate, SysML, and OPM are used as system architecture description languages. UAF (Unified Architecture Framework) is recognized as effective for enterprise architecture to describe SoS. Among them, integration into universal description by UAF (Unified Architecture Framework) is recognized as effective. A foundation of the system design process, which is conceived in ontology, modeled in a system description language, and integrated by UAF, is described by the use of category theory.

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The progress of DX is having an impact on the insurance industry. It started with the automation of administrative procedures, and recently, car insurance using drive recorders has been released, which is useful for claims services in the event of an accident. Additionally, as DX advances in each industry, new data is becoming available and risk assessments are becoming more sophisticated. In this paper, I consider the role of insurance in domain-integrated DX from two perspectives, “supporting domain-integrated DX promotion by taking new risks” and “promoting domain-integrated DX as a partner”.

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As a strategic theme for companies, the importance of digital transformation (DX) is increasing. This paper discusses the relationship between DX types and Organizational Capabilities, moreover explain about ambidexterity in DX.

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The capabilities of the Okhotsk region of Hokkaido include primary industry (agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forestry, etc.), nature, tourism, hot springs, gourmet food, multiple leisure activities, outdoor activities, cold region sports, and Showa retro.The Strategic Collaborative Innovation Laboratory utilizes these capabilities to promote industry-academia-government-industry collaboration activities. We will introduce the specific details of these efforts.

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GPDAC (Goal, Process, Data, Actor, Control) as a framework has been proposed to create new DX knowledge by recombining knowledge from different academic fields. However, GPDAC did not deal with ethics. In this paper, we propose a model that expresses the ethics of integrated digital knowledge using systems thinking.

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There are a variety of indicators to measure local strength, but in practice, it is necessary to ask many questions in a questionnaire.This paper suggests the possibility of using the Net Promoter Score, which is widely used mainly for businesses and can be measured with only one question．

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While there are similarities in their contributions to solving local issues and revitalizing local communities, their roles are very different. The cases of Minato-ku, Tokyo and Hinohara Village, Tokyo, which have different regional commitments for each municipality, will be used to examine what characteristics and possibilities each has for multilayered leadership by the community.

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Hinohara village, the only village in Tokyo except for the islands, will be used as an example to discuss how various stakeholders can contribute to the revitalization of depopulated areas and how they can play their roles in maintaining and developing the area around the economic activities. The village has changed its structure for the first time in 20 years in April 2023, and changes in its policies and activities will also be discussed.

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In recent years, there have been significant research advancements in the science of man-made vs. natural bodies and their ideal forms and manifestations, towards post-Industrial Revolution. Rather than classical cost orientation, hashing out the possibility of high-order (macro) SDG resulting from behavioral mitigation (motivation) policy in relation to traditional GDP in the recent socio-economic world, we take up the possibility of a wealth-additive approach for a rich man-made body, transcending the age of A. Smith. In this paper, we discuss the sublation of confrontation and contradiction from a nano perspective and take up economic systems by looking at the microcosm of basic ternary/pair-map forms (microcosms) based on artificial image and GDP, particularly from the perspective of eco-entropy in the natural state. Then we focus on the mitigation effects (angles) of sustainable waste, diversity/heterogeneity, and the like, and consider the shape of engine efficiency (dynamism), adopting a behavioral relax-scheduling policy of intangible (e-managerial) body type.

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Each supply chain (SC) organization performs the generation of information, including information about inventory on demand, capacity, and delivery times. Supply chain management (SCM) is carried out using such information. In short, a successful SCM will give you the information you need, so it's important to build a good information network between your organizations. However, there are few quantitative methods for assessing the validity of information networks in SCs. We developed a method to quantitatively evaluate the validity of information networks for managing SCs by main subjects. In this way, we focus on the differences in the structure of information networks for each type of information, divide the information network into some kind of subnetwork according to the type of information, evaluate each subnetwork, obtain the evaluation index SCV as the weighting level of each subnetwork, and comprehensively evaluate the information network as SCV. Using the quantitative evaluation method we developed, we have created a platform for the delivery adjustment work of plastics wire. We tried quantitative evaluation of production seat system and SC quantitative evaluation of production seat system by adding AI, which has been attracting attention in recent years, and evaluated the function and effect as an example.

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Structural materials for steel structures are processed in factories. Company A, a steel frame fabrication factory, has a seasonal production plan, but no progress is being made, resulting in a longer production period compared to rival companies. This causes outsourcing and overtime work, which increases costs. Therefore, we built a progress management system to provide clues for improvement. By starting to use this, we have already seen results in shortening the construction period.

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Production management systems are commercially available as packages. Although many small and medium-sized enterprises have introduced these systems, it is said that they are not used effectively. We investigated the actual situation among small and medium-sized enterprises in the Kyoto area. We will report the results and consider the reasons why it is not used effectively.

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QR code is a matrix-type two-dimensional code that expresses information by arranging white and black cells in a grid pattern. Based on a development philosophy focused on the field of use, the code was developed with emphasis on enhanced reading performance, such as all-direction high-speed readability, resilience against smudges and damage, and resistance to distortion of the code. Thus far, this code continues to evolve. In addition to the excellence of the code, we are proud of the fact that we declared the code public domain to be used freely without exercising patent rights and worked to popularize it, i.e., the behavioral style of photographing the code with a camera and accessing information. This code has had a huge impact on society, creating new lifestyles, such as payment methods, ticket gates, and entrance methods to venues, thereby inducing changes in the behavior of people. The Japan Society for Management Systems recommends the QR code, which originated in Japan and has become popular globally, for its Kototsukuri-Collection.

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This paper overviews technical research and study on cyber physical human systems (CPHS) in The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE). Specifically, we introduce the activities of SICE control division technical committee on human-connected control systems and the domestic and international academic trends. We also discuss the future direction of system architecture design and its control for CPHS.

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The concept of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which aims to solve various societal issues by connecting the information world and the physical world, is gaining traction. CPS is extended to Cyber Physical Human Systems (CPHS) by taking into account people’s behavior and their preferences. To realize CPHS, technology that seamlessly and accurately incorporates the preferences into the information world is indispensable. This manuscript presents the concept of Chat2Spec, which explores the problem of estimating personalized specifications for systems by processing natural language chat information, which is based on rapidly advancing large-scale language models. Furthermore, the manuscript introduces a realization of Chat2Spec with the potential applications in the robotics and air traffic control.

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Toward Society 5.0, Yokogawa Electric Corporation aims to become an integrator in a world where Systems of Systems (SoS) are implemented in society, and create value by overall optimization through autonomous and integrated SoS. This paper introduces the definition and systematic classification of SoS and Yokogawa Electric Corporation's efforts on Community Energy Management System. Finally, we discuss the prospects for the Cyber-Physical Human System from the perspective of Smart Manufacturing.

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The diversification of individual needs is making it difficult to define requirements for social infrastructure systems. Therefore, a development process that starts with prototypes and social experiments, and then improves them step by step while incorporating the opinions of users and operators, is considered suitable. To realize this process, it is necessary to consider humans as a part of the system and develop the system as a total system. In this presentation, we propose a system architecture for this development process.

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In Cyber Physical Human Systems (CPHS), multiple systems and people interact with each other. Therefore, in order to develop a system based on CPHS, it is necessary to examine its effects and impacts across different domains, such as transport, economy, and environment. Social Digital Twin (SDT) is a technology that enables such prior examination. By using SDT, it is possible to examine the effects of a system by simulating society, including human behavior to the system, based on real-world data. We have developed a simulation system that integrates heterogeneous simulators for SDT. This paper describes the requirements, configuration, and technical issues of the system.

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Mechanism design is an applied theory in economics that began to be studied around 1970, and is a research field that targets social institutions and rules (mechanisms) using game theory. Emergent synthesis, on the other hand, is a concept that emerged from the field of industrial engineering and was proposed by Ueda (2001) as an alternative to conventional top-down optimisation methods. In this article, Mechanism Synthesis is proposed as a new research area that fuses both fields, aiming at designing mechanisms based on a emergent synthesis way.

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In recent years, production systems (in a broad sense), which are responsible for manufacturing products and providing services, have become increasingly like a medium for co-creating value through the collaboration among diverse actors with different knowledge and preferences. In such a collaborative production system, the diverse knowledge and preferences brought in by each actor should be effectively converted into the output value through game-theoretical interaction among the actors. This paper categorizes the collaborative production systems into several classes and discusses the mechanism of each class to make it work properly.

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Scheduling Auction (SA) is a VCG auction, which requires to solve multiple optimization problems to determine the payment of each player. SA loses its desirable properties if it cannot obtain the exact solutions of the problems. We have proposed a Scheduling Auction mechanism utilizing a Distributed Genetic Algorithm to mitigate the adverse effects caused by the infeasibility of rigorously solving the optimization problems. This paper provides some ingenuity of the migration operation among the optimization problems being solved by GA in parallel.

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Product innovation is the process by which the fundamental capabilities of a new product create new lifestyles and generating new value to society. This report describes new applications and uses of Dual ComBine Analysis as a tool to support living labs for small but deep data-based innovation.

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The purpose of this study is to obtain knowledge to promote individual independent career development and to increase the mobility of human resources from existing industries to the digital industry. In this paper, we identify the process by which IT-related workers change jobs to the digital industry. An interview survey was conducted, and an exploratory study was conducted on the job change process and its facilitating factors. As a result, the following facilitating factors were extracted: proactive approach to the unknown, recognition of one's knowledge skills, and the decision to change jobs under the influence of others.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the conflict process in telework and to develop a workshop for effective conflict management. Interviews were conducted to analyze the conflict process. The results showed that conflicts caused by communication were unproductive outcomes. Therefore, a workshop was developed to simulate the experience of conflicts caused by communication. In the workshop, participants experience a series of conflict processes, from the occurrence of a conflict to how to handle with it, through role-playing according to a story. From there, participants reflect on how they have handled their own conflicts. Participants will also learn five conflict management strategies. Through these activities, participants are expected to learn how to handle with conflicts effectively in telework.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors that influence work motivation of project members and to develop a workshop for effective motivation management. We conducted interviews and analyzed their verbatim transcripts, it became clear that the factors influencing work motivation vary greatly from individual to individual. Therefore, we developed a workshop to visualize the factors that influence individual work motivation.

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In recent years, the use of information technology in business has become indispensable, and project teams are becoming increasingly active in companies and other organizations to promote digital transformation. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence the work motivation of project members in order to make the project successful. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with experienced project members, and verbatim transcripts were analyzed using text mining.

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Companies plan and design new products or services by analyzing their customer needs. However, customers may not have clear understanding of their own needs, and often have only vague understanding of what the needs are. Therefore, in this study, we examine the method for organizing requirements and creating the result diagram based on such vague needs. An overview of the specific steps is as follows: 1) Perform morphological analysis of transcripts of interviews, the analysis which is used in text mining to extract each word for the languages with no space between words. 2) Based on the part-of-speech information added by the morphological analysis, derive the constituent elements that become the parts of the class diagram. 3) Draw a class diagram based on each element. In this paper, we present the result of the trial of this procedure by using actual interview data. Through this trial, we confirmed that this method would be an effective way to draw diagrams from vague needs.

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