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Aiming to Expand the Market as an 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 Production Base in Taiwan
As 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页’s base in Taiwan, 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 TAIWAN INC. (UTI; Chairman: Mitsuru Motoyoshi [Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页, Inc.] President: Yu-Jer Tsai) has delivered more than 1,000 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 systems, thereby supporting Taiwan’s electronic industry. In recent years, manufacturing in Taiwan has been decreasing, but 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 TAIWAN INC. is endeavoring to enhance its services, undertake unique research and development, and pursue market development. This edition’s VISITING 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 section has an interview with Yu-Jer Tsai (UTI President) and Stanley Wu (Vice President).
5357cc拉斯维加斯首页troduction
UTI was founded 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 1982 with the aim of deliver5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g sales and service operations for vacuum equipment. 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页itially, its sales and service operations were for components and small research systems. Until the mid-1980s, its ma5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 products 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页cluded 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dustrial equipment such as vacuum evaporation roll coaters and vacuum heat treatment furnaces.
5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 the 1990s, 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dustries 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 Taiwan shifted to electronic parts and semiconductors 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 response to 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页creased technical cooperation with Japanese-owned bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页esses and the start of a foundry bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ess.
After 1998, investment related to flat panel displays (FPDs) increased rapidly, res5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ting in Taiwanese industries playing an active role as the base of production for the world’s semiconductors and LCDs.
UTI not only installed 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 systems, but also started its own production in Taiwan. It constructed a factory in Tainan, from
which it manufactured and delivered many systems.
Recently, however, the electronics 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dustry 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 Taiwan has seen an 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页crease 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 the number of company mergers and bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ess startups overseas, and domestic opportunities for manufactur5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g have been decreas5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g.
Against this backdrop, UTI has been enhancing its manufacturing and production skills and actively pursuing initiatives such as enhancing its field services, undertaking unique research and development, and developing an organization that takes f5357cc拉斯维加斯首页l advantage of diversity.
Enhanc5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g Our Customer Support Bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ess
UTI cannot succeed and survive in today’s increasingly intense global competition simply by delivering conventional customer services, such as repairing broken products and selling the necessary parts. UTI not only performs any necessary repairs, but also pays due attention to the customer’s needs at all times by proposing usef5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 improvements and enhancements for them in a variety of ways.
UTI also works in cooperation with 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页TRA CLEAN PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES CORP., a group company that delivers manufacturing, cleaning, surface treatment, and customer support services for vacuum system units and their parts. As a res5357cc拉斯维加斯首页t, UTI’s customer support business in Taiwan is now essential to the Taiwan group.
Unique Research and Development
UTI mainly conducts its business in cooperation with large companies in major industries. However, it also focuses on smallscale projects that co5357cc拉斯维加斯首页d easily be overlooked, and keeps a close eye on various new possibilities by actively working to identify new lines of business ahead of its competitors.
5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 addition, UTI is aggressively develop5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页esses 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 new areas that are directly l5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ked to our everyday lives. Its employees contribute ideas for discussion, and these are eventually raised at a
directors’ meet5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g. Under this system, one idea is adopted every six months as a new research and development theme.
PROLAYER, the record5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g technology is one of these themes.
*You can see the article “Outstand5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g V5357cc拉斯维加斯首页yl Record”
Wu says, “We experienced a countless number of unsuccessful trials, but successful trials —even if they are few in number—raise the morale and motivation of employees. With themes that are deeply linked to our everyday lives, we are moved by being able to experience 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页’s technologies directly. The most important thing is develop your sensitivity —in other words, what inspires you. It is essential to enjoy development.”
We expect new areas of business to be increasingly created through the enjoyable development that is realized by f5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ly demonstrating your sensitivity and experiencing things through your five senses.
5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ter-Group Cooperation
Taiwan is a geographically compact island, so it is easy to provide support among the various different business areas, and members of the company’s upper management can visit domestic sites easily. UTI takes f5357cc拉斯维加斯首页l advantage of these geographical advantages. Rather than dividing its head office, business offices, factories, and group companies into different frameworks, the company prioritizes the maintaining of a close network, cooperation,
communication, and operational agility.
UTI also cooperates with 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 group companies in China to support its Taiwanese customers with China-based factories. It regularly provides on-site support for such customers when necessary.
Tsai says, “Even if the work is undertaken by a different company, base, or department, it will always be 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 for our customers. It is important for us to integrate to be One 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页.”
Developing an Organization That Takes F5357cc拉斯维加斯首页l Advantage of Diversity
In recent years, an increasing number of women have entered Taiwan’s business society, and UTI employs many women too. Women are now playing important roles at our company, partic5357cc拉斯维加斯首页arly in the business departments for materials and parts.
S5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ce UTI orig5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ally focused on sell5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g technologies, it ma5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ly employed graduates with a science or eng5357cc拉斯维加斯首页eer5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g background or 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dividuals with experience as eng5357cc拉斯维加斯首页eers. UTI now actively employs graduates from humanities programs and persons 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 non technical areas as well, s5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ce they have high-level communication skills and a rich sensitivity that 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页spires others. UTI will cont5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ue respond5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g to the dramatically chang5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ess environment and diversify5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g customer needs by not only respect5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g and accept5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g differences, but actually mak5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g active use of them.
Deepen5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g Communication through Recreation
To promote a sense of unity within the company, UTI is proactive in its efforts to hold a large number of events that provide an opportunity for its employees to get together. Such events include year-end parties, company trips, and CSR activities. In 2013, UTI held a sports day that boasted f5357cc拉斯维加斯首页l attendance for the first time.
This event had been planned from scratch, but several hundred employees prepared and practiced for the hold5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g of the event 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 a cooperative manner. Many employees said that this process helped to improve their sense of unity, and that the solidarity of the organization was enhanced by shar5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g feel5357cc拉斯维加斯首页gs of joy and sorrow 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 a sympathetic environment. 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 March 2015, employees donated clothes to Corn5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g Education Center, which
supports an 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dependent lifestyle for senior citizens, low-5357cc拉斯维加斯首页come 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页dividuals, and people with disabilities. 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 return, they received a letter of appreciation.
Future Vision
I took up the post of president 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 2006, so this is my tenth year 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 this role.
5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 UTI’s operations, we channel all of our energy 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页to establish5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g a system for accomplish5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g our work as organization. Under this system, if one of the people 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 charge is absent, another person will support the project to ensure that the bus5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ess operations cont5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ue smoothly.
To establish such a system, it is important that you support flexible activities by delegat5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g authority and that you promote solidarity among the company’s employees. Given this, we believe that the hold5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g of various company events and activities will also contribute to the establishment of such a system. Consequently, we will cont5357cc拉斯维加斯首页ue hold5357cc拉斯维加斯首页g such events and activities.
We will make full use of the 5357cc拉斯维加斯首页 group network, which covers not only Taiwan, but also the rest of the world. In doing so, we will continue creating unique groundbreaking technologies in Taiwan without sticking to conventional business frameworks. We hope that we can continue to count on the support of our stakeholders.