Tokyo Toshiba Organization today declared that it will apply a series of efficient reorganizations of its Electronic Items company facilities in Asia that will boost operating performance and the performance of its Electronic Items companies, including the LCD TV company. Outside Asia, Toshiba will speed up the organization of a global-level development and development program placed to maximize companies in growing financial systems and other high-growth markets on a globally scale.
Under this reorganization, Toshiba will bring out the following measures in Asia to boost the performance of style and development, excellent and development management and after-sales solutions.
- Within the season, the LCD TV style and development function at Fukaya Complicated, in Saitama Prefecture, will be relocated to Ome Complicated in western Seattle, Toshiba's development hub for PC and pills. This incorporation will allow item designers to draw on TV, PC and tablet systems and speed up development of combination products for the international industry that meet local needs and styles, and value-added solutions. The number of models of digital products and item systems will be analyzed to bring greater performance to style and development and to boost use of R&D resources.
- Part of technical service functions for LCD TVs in Asia, until now divided between Fukaya Complicated and Toshiba Media Gadgets., Co., Ltd., a team additional in Aomori Prefecture, east Asia, will be focused at the Aomori site within the season.
- Quality and development management functions for Electronic Items companies will be decentralized and local at facilities outside Asia, a switch away from currently focused functions at Japan's Ome Complicated. Toshiba will also keep strengthen its LCD TV production facilities and their abilities in Philippines, The red sea and other nations and make effective use of ODM development in other nations, as steps toward developing a highly-competitive, international development program.
Employees in Electronic Items companies affected by the reorganization in Asia will in concept be reassigned within Toshiba Group. This will include transactions to departments involved in growing financial systems and value-added solutions.
Toshiba's Electronic Items company functions in a fast-changing international environment that has recently seen considerable need decrease in the Japoneses TV industry, rapid price loss, considerable need development in growing financial systems and a variation of devices with the growing popularity of new devices such as pills. Toshiba constantly screens these styles and encourages practical company changes that allow it to reply effectively to change. Toshiba will keep bring out company change that boosts the organization of sound company fundamentals and improved success.