Daikin Industries, Ltd. was selected for "Digital Transformation (DX) Stocks 2025," a designation awarded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. An award ceremony for the selected companies was held on May 30th. Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were evaluated and selected for "DX Stocks" based on their success for improving corporate value through DX initiatives. This year marks the fourth time that Daikin has been selected.
Since fiscal year 2023, Daikin has been investing 180 billion yen over a three-year period in support of digital technologies as part of "Promoting Digital Transformation for Innovation," a key theme under its strategic management plan Fusion 25. Additionally, the company is committed to developing human resources skilled in digital technologies as demonstrated not only in the expansion of its in-house program, Daikin Information and Communications Technology College (DICT), but also in its efforts to ensure the further success of its program graduates.
Those initiatives leading to Daikin’s selection are summarized below:
- For over 30 years, Daikin has been providing AirNet Service System, a remote monitoring service for air conditioning that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to collect and store failure data. Recently, the company has developed DK-CONNECT, a cloud-based air conditioning management service, to provide various types of value including improved comfort and reduced energy consumption. In doing so, Daikin aims to create new value by leveraging the energy management technologies that it has cultivated until now and the air conditioning data that it has amassed. In the SHIBUYA GREEN SHIFT PROJECT*1, an industry-academia-government-citizens collaboration project in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, the company uses air conditioner data as environmental sensors to visualize the hot and cool spots in the city and contribute to the cooling and decarbonization of the entire city. The aim is to create a reliable and safe outdoor environment while contributing to carbon neutrality, well-being, and biodiversity in the city.
- In 2017, Daikin, in conjunction with Osaka University, established its in-house program Daikin Information and Communications Technology College to attract and train the human resources that are vital to promoting the use of digital technologies and is working to develop unique IoT/AI skills in people who are knowledgeable in air conditioning technologies. The program is not limited to new employees but also targets other employees, including senior managers, with the plan of increasing the number of DX human resources to 2,000 people by the end of March 2026. Since fiscal year 2023, program graduates are increasingly being assigned to global bases where they contribute to accelerating DX development at overseas bases.
In this way, Daikin is striving to promote DX both internally and through co-creation with external parties to create new innovations that contribute to solving environmental and social issues.
