• Products for the automotive industry, infrastructure, and healthcare
  • More than 25,000 employees (2025)
  • ¥633.3 billion (€3.87 billion) in sales (2024)

Sumitomo Riko Company Ltd., headquartered in Komaki-shi, Aichi, Japan, is part of the Sumitomo Group. Founded in 1929, the company develops and manufactures not only vibration control systems, rubber hoses, and seals for the automotive industry, but also products for infrastructure and healthcare applications. Since 2023, the company has been relying on CIM Database in a cloud-based setup to support its growth strategy in product development, production planning, and manufacturing. The German subsidiary of Sumitomo Riko Europe, SumiRiko AVS Germany GmbH, has already been successfully using CONTACT's PLM system for over ten years.

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Task and objective
  • Improve collaboration between globally distributed engineering and production sites
  • Standardize and accelerate processes to support continued growth
  • Support for the digitalization initiative "DX" (Digital Transformation)
  • Ensure excellent adaptability to the specific requirements of the Japanese market
  • Enable fast implementation and scalability of the solution
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Solution
  • CIM Database Cloud as a company-wide platform
  • Global use of the solution across product development, engineering, production planning, and manufacturing
  • Centralized provision of reliably valid data through globally consistent processes and integrated document management
  • Standardization of the part numbering scheme
  • Integration with the ERP system and simulation data management
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Benefits
  • Rapid and smooth rollout supported by the technical expertise of CONTACT’s partner Bosch Global Software on site
  • Global deployment and active use of CIM Database across Sumitomo Riko locations in Japan, China, North America and Germany
  • End-to-end processes enabled by unification of the system landscape through integration with other systems such as ERP and simulation data management
  • Foundation for advancing digital transformation (“DX Initiative”) by improvement of global data consistency and automation of routine tasks
  • Accelerated manufacturing processes through automated delivery of approved CATIA drawings to production sites
  • Reliable protection against cyberattacks and minimal hardware and software maintenance efforts thanks to cloud operation
“Sumitomo Riko has positioned CIM Database as their PLM system at the core of its product development process, and as a result, digital transformation is progressing globally.”

Kazuhiko Kato
Managing Executive Director, Sumitomo Riko Company Ltd.

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