Osaka Sheet Glass Co.,

Our Basic Policy:
Creation and Service. This is our keyword.
We are aiming to an enterprise bearing "Creation and Service" in those five(5) areas mentioned below:
　

Our Basic Policy:

(1) Creation of Living and Working Spaces
　We deal with sheet glasses as the main line of merchandizes, various types of sashes for housing, buildings and stores, mirrors, plastic products, decorative stuffs for stores, etc. We are committed to create our living and working spaces.

(2) Creation of New Technologies
The New Glass is spotlighted as a revolution of material. We are actively challenging to the new materials and new needs. We believe that our challenge spirit creates our future.


(3) Customer Oriented Management

　Our slogan is "a challenge to satisfy our customers." We are so creative and pursuing every nature of our management for customers' full satisfaction.
We are so active in the view of "a company which is really demanded by its customers."
1.Challenge to Zero………………. Zero day in physical distribution.
2. Implementing Sincere Services …… Greetings and services with sincerity.
3. Creation of Innovative Services ….. New merchandises and quick distribution.

Wide Area Information Network
Utilizing Radio Equipment


(4) Creative and Steady Growth of Our Company as well as Individual Employee.



　We are pushing forward with our work for the growth of individuals as well as our company in terms of worthwhile living as our basis.

Our Internal System of Training and Study

  • Training and study for each level of employee…Training for fresh person, the second year training and the third year training.
  • Individual skill education…Training of sales, glass construction training and sash design training.
  • Correspondence Training….Sales training, female employee's course, handling formal ceremonial occasions and training for subordinates.
  • Technical Skill Examination…. Glass construction, sash construction, balcony construction, welding, etc.
  • Training for upbringing executives… A consistent education at NJC(Nihon Sheet Glass Company Distribution Group) for five(5) years.
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    　Employees' Share Holding System….In order to have employees participate in the management, this system is available for our employees.

    The ratio of shares held by our employees……a 30%
    Our thought with respect to our company's growth is equivalent to that of each of us.


    We will explore our contents of study and training for the growth of each employee.

    An Example of Employee Study and Training for the year 1997
    1. Study and Training for the New Employees.
    Its objective….To have achieve knowledge of sash and business affairs.

  • Manners in business.
  • Generic knowledge of glass.
  • Processing technique of glass.
  • Knowledge of sashes for houses.
  • Study by observation at the Maizuru Plant of Nihon Sheet Glass Company.
  • Training for construction technique for glasses and sashes.
  • Sashes for buildings and basic knowledge of chemical products.

    • 2. Study and Training for the Second Year Employees
    Fundamental Objective…. Achievement of relative technical skills.

  • Quotation of glasses, and technical calculations.
  • Quotations of sashes, and processing skills.
  • Fundamentals of computer, and generic description of our system.
  • Fundamentals of architectural structures, and how to read drawings.
  • 5S' [seiri(put things in order), seiton(straighten things up), seisou(cleaning), shitsuke(dicipline), and promotion of QC(Quality Control).

    • 3. Study and Training for the Third Year Employees
    Fundamental Objective…. Achievement of existing problems and study of improvement measures.

  • Study of problem solving measures.
  • Lecture on fundamentals of business affairs.
  • How to read financial statements and business analysis.

    • 4. Trading and Study The First Year Student of NJC(Distribution Group of Nihon Sheet Glass Company)
    The NJC is a group organized by sole distributors of Nihon Sheet Glass Company.

  • Fundamental Study and Training for Newcomers.
  • Follow-up of the fundamental study and training.
  • Study on computers.
  • Study and training of technical fundamentals.
  • Study and training of sales skill.


    5. Creation of a Comprehensive Rationalization

    Provision of versatile warehouses, fulfillment of processing technique, rationalization of delivery using MCA, provision of data base of comprehensive management information, etc. We always pursuing these areas in order to improve our business efficiency.
    Furthermore, we are aiming to improve our business performance with a thoroughgoing cost control.


    1. Improvement in services to customers by rationalization.
    2. Improvement in welfare program for our employees.
    3. Enforcement of reinvestment by rationalization.
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    The Network Linking Our Bases (Headquarters, Building Materials Center and the Hirakata Division).

  • CS(Communication & Support) with LAN(Local Area Network).
  • Information data base with respect to sales, personal affairs and accounting exploiting a general-purpose computer.
  • Automatic glass cutting machines for rationalizing cutting works.
  • Rationalization of loading the glazing channel.
  • Automatic glazing channel loaders.
    Glazing channel : An elastic rubber like gasket used when a glass sheet is fit to an aluminum sash.
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    Organization of Employees:
    A total of 124(96 males and 28 females)(as of February , 1997)

    Age: 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s Total
    . 4 59 18 17 22 2 1 1 124
    Ratio 3% 48% 15% 14% 18% 2% 1% 1% .

    Average Age : 35 years old (as of February 1, 1997)
    A feature of our company is more than half of total employees are in their 20's.
    They show a great deal of solidarity in pleasure, events, etc. including their assignments.

    A Vital and youthful power for group activities within working hours as well as on holidays are available due to such a low average age.

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