OREANDA-NEWS. June 25, 2012. Fujitsu today announced that it has collaborated with YKK Corporation in developing a Factory Energy Management System (FEMS) for YKK as part of the company's environmental initiatives. The new system has begun operating in the Fastening Product Group's Metallic Materials Manufacturing Department located at the company's Kurobe Plant, which manufactures fasteners.

The new FEMS enables visualization of energy consumption by attaching power sensors to each piece of production equipment, such as the melting furnace, and collecting real-time data from each sensor in one-minute increments. In addition to enabling the identification and replication of manufacturing best practices by comparing and analyzing manufacturing conditions at each plant, resulting in reduced energy consumption, the use of the FEMS has also led to improvements in manufacturing quality and efficiency in the fastener production process.

YKK plans to expand the use of the system to other YKK Group businesses and to the Fastening Product Group's manufacturing facilities outside of Japan.