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Development of Eco-Friendly Products
Initiative for Developing Eco-Friendly Products Since establishing our product development policy in 1978, the basic development concept of the IDEC Group has been to achieve the optimal control based on the “saving.” With SAVE ALL set as our slogan in 1982, we have committed ourselves to introduce our customers to the “saving” concepts, which includes energy-saving, space-saving, maintenance-saving, and resource-saving. Based on the tendency of the reduction of the environmental burden and the protection of the global environment by the recent social status, we have announced the concept of developing eco-friendly products and have established the procedure in 2017. In 2022, we have reviewed the process of developing products and revised the process to be more eco-friendly. We evaluate the degree of environmental consideration of product development based on IDEC's own standards such as energy efficiency improvement, resource saving, space saving, and a longer product life. The products with high consideration of saving are certified as an "enhanced eco-friendly product". As one of the medium-term targets by FY2025, we have set a target to make eco-friendly products represent 60% or more of all new products launched since FY2020 on a cumulative basis. Not only designing eco-friendly product, we have also addressed to reduce CO2 emissions in the process of manufacturing, transporting, and packing products.
Environmental Label (Eco-mark)
	We have created am original eco-mark based on our basic spirit of "SAVE ALL". The mark is stamped on the leaflet of products that are certified as "enhanced eco-friendly products" to appeal to our customers. *in compliance with ISO/JIS Q 14021 (self-declared environmental claims: typeII)
Evaluation Items for Eco-Friendly Products (excerpt)

・Energy-saving (high efficiency)	Energy-saving design of products
・Resource-saving (materials)	Reduce materials used
・Resource-saving (package, packing materials)	Reduce packing materials, paperless, unlabeled
・Space-saving, weight-saving	Reduce size and weight compared to existing products
・Reduce man-hours	Consider for improving user's workability
・Energy-saving of production facilities	Shorten production process
・Adopt eco-friendly materials (parts)	Apply to component of parts, packing materials, and transporting materials
・Ease of product disassembly	non-use of adhesive agent, reduce screws
・longer operating life	Adopt longer operating parts, easy maintenance

Examples of Eco-Friendly Products
Controller with operator interface “FT2J series” Product summary The “FT2J series” integrate a programmable logic controller (PLC) and a operator interface to create a rational automation system. To provide value to customers in terms of environmental consideration, we consider reducing power consumption through integration, space-saving, and reducing the number of man-hours required for wiring by adopting push-in terminals.
Eco-friendly points ・Benefits of integrating PLC and display ①Power consumption is reduced by approximately 40% per unit, which contributes to reducing CO2 emissions caused by electricity consumption.
➁The depth reduces to one-third, which contributes to the space-saving of customer's equipment including control panels.
・Adopt Push-in terminals 　Push-in terminals allow tool-free wiring. The removable terminal block enables separate wiring, resulting in improved efficiency.