Case Study: Yamaha Corporation achieves real-time production reporting with WingArc MotionBoard

Monthly Reports become Daily with MotionBoard Accelerating Continuous Improvement

Yamaha Corporation, a global musical instrument manufacturer, faced challenges optimizing work practices and demonstrating value at its Toyooka factory against lower-cost overseas competitors. Manual, time-consuming reporting processes prevented management from accessing timely data to improve productivity and reduce indirect labor costs. To address this, Yamaha partnered with vendor WingArc and implemented its MotionBoard business intelligence solution to gain real-time visibility into production data.

WingArc's MotionBoard provided Yamaha with real-time dashboards that visualized key performance indicators like productivity and quality directly on the factory floor. This solution eliminated a 50-hour monthly reporting process entirely, enabling daily data analysis and empowering staff to examine defect causes instantly. The implementation accelerated continuous improvement and provided the tools for Yamaha to achieve its goals of low cost, high quality, and high technical strength.

Yamaha Corporation

Satoshi Miyata

Department Director