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CEO Message Why manufacturing?Customer Voice Our Identity CPO Message

Unleash the potential of manufacturing

Manufacturing is the world’s largest industry, connected across borders, and a complex domain filled with unstructured data and tacit knowledge.
These inherent characteristics make the challenge of transforming the industry both difficult and deeply compelling.

CEO Message

CEO

Yushiro Kato

AI continues to move beyond the limits of human intelligence, the challenges society faces will increasingly be physical and material, including human safety, access to essential goods, and environmental sustainability.  

The industry best positioned to address these challenges is manufacturing the world's largest and most foundational industry.  

CADDi aims to become the global technology infrastructure for manufacturing, making innovation easier and more accessible across the entire industry. By doing so, we seek to push humanity7s physical limits forward and support human progress at its very foundation. Achieving this vision requires scale, world-class products, and world-class talent.  

We aspire to be an organization that dares boldly, acts with sincerity, and continues to hold onto pure, idealistic ambition, no matter how large we grow. We want to remain a place where people can openly discuss the future, challenge one another with respect, and move forward as one team.  Will you join us in building this ambitious journey together?  We warmly welcome those who share our vision, passion, and conviction.

Why manufacturing?

The smarter AI becomes, the more we confront the limits of the physical world.

As AI enters an era of pushing beyond the limits of intelligence, we believe humanity will once again be confronted with the constraints of the physical world.
How will we face these limits? How can we overcome them?
We believe the answer lies in manufacturing, the world’s largest infrastructure.

Customer Voice

From Dependency on Individuals to 4× Growth — Turning Drawing Data into Actionable Assets: The Current State of Manufacturing DX

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

With an ambitious goal of 4× revenue by 2030, the company had long struggled with managing vast volumes of drawings and passing down knowledge—challenges inherent to made-to-order manufacturing. With the introduction of CADDi Drawer, past drawings and purchasing data were consolidated, searchable, and transformed into truly usable assets. As a result, similar part searches became about 80% faster, and ROI reached roughly 6×.
As demand for robotics expands into new domains such as healthcare and medical fields, the company aims to connect everything from design to quality assurance through a fully digital, end-to-end process—moving away from person-dependent workflows and freeing up time to focus on creating new value.

We aim to carry forward the full breadth of technical knowledge accumulated over the past century into the next—so we can continue delivering the highest-quality products.

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

“Since discovering CADDi Drawer, we’ve been able to instantly find similar drawings and related information within our vast archive of past design data—finally making it truly ‘usable.’ It feels like we’ve found one answer to developing people and passing on knowledge.
As the automotive industry undergoes a major transformation, development cycles are getting shorter, but opportunities for new challenges are increasing. We want to move away from person-dependent ways of working and spend more time creating new value.

From the brink of a cash-flow crisis to record profits—transforming both culture and the way we work.

Fuji Yuatsu Seiki Co., Ltd.

After implementing CADDi Drawer, starting with drawing data, we achieved a company-wide productivity transformation, including a 95% reduction in procurement workload, around 70% paperless operations, and a full two-day weekend system. With information now shared across the organization, a culture of deflecting responsibility with ‘I didn’t know’ has disappeared. Decision-making is no longer reliant on individual memory or experience, and we’ve become a flatter organization where people feel comfortable speaking up.

Even at 54, I feel there’s still so much I can do for the future, and that’s what excites me most.

Our Identity

Taking on problems no one else has solved

We are taking on an unprecedented challenge: building the data infrastructure that powers manufacturing across the world.

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It’s difficult.That’s precisely what makes it exciting.

he complexity of industrial structures, vast amounts of unstructured data and constraints unique to the physical world. With advances in technology, we can now finally take on this domain in ways that were never possible before.This is a challenge no one has solved. That is exactly what makes it hard, and worth pursuing.

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Deep Dive into Industry

Theory alone cannot change the physical world. We are at the field, understanding the realities of the industry, and stepping into the core of its challenges.
It is this level of depth and clarity that creates true value.

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Not a hack, but a Transformation

We do not aim to “hack” the world as it is. We aim to transform it from its very foundation.
An industry where accumulated knowledge can generate greater value.
With our own hands, we take on the structural challenges that have persisted for over a century.

CPO Message

Senior Executive Officer, CPO

Yosuke Shirai

Both rational and irrational, for the sake of the future.

In the world of software development, there's a term called "technical debt." This term often carries a negative connotation, suggesting something bad or something to be eliminated. However, the place we stand today is built upon such past legacies. In short, even if something seems irrational from today's perspective, we must respect the rationality of the time that built the present.  

Today, the phrase "using data" is uttered in countless contexts. However, when we look back through the lens of this modern standard of data utilization, the drawings and data accumulated in long-established manufacturing industries aren't always in their optimal state.  

We would like to create a product that connects the past and the future, helping us to gracefully overcome the irrationalities and discrepancies between the rationality of the parts and the whole, while respecting the legacy/assets that have built the present, in order to create the future.  

To achieve this, even if the accumulated data from the past contains some "irrational" situations, we use technology to analyze and integrate it as automatically as possible, minimizing human intervention, and providing the fastest possible experience of improving work through data utilization. Data is usable! Starting from that experience, we came up with the idea that it would be easier to use if our own operations and data were structured this way from the beginning, and above all, we want to help create a culture where such wisdom is shared.  

We aim to create a product that allows us to take the first half-step with technology, and then move forward with both culture and technology working together.