At a glance
| Booth | Q6235 |
| Website | glit-japan.com/en |
Company profile
GLIT stands for Guild for Leading Innovative Technology and is a manufacturing consortium composed primarily of 14 small and medium-sized enterprises in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The group was established in 2012 to enter growth industries including health care, aerospace, and renewable energy by combining the innovative technologies of local enterprises. GLIT combines member-company capabilities to provide high value-added manufacturing and can handle work from design development and prototype making through mass production. Its consortium model is intended to provide end-to-end manufacturing from core technologies to finished products, using collaboration among specialized local manufacturers rather than relying on a single production discipline. The technologies represented in GLIT are used in satellites, medical devices, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, electric vehicles, and optical equipment, with additional application areas including aerospace, nuclear power, home appliances, and renewable energy. GLIT describes Japanese manufacturing technology developed under rigorous standards as contributing to safety and well-being and frames its mission around turning ideas into manufacturable products through the combined capabilities of its members. The group therefore functions as a shared-order and collaborative manufacturing structure for customers that need parts, jigs and tools, equipment fabrication, design development, prototypes, or volume production across multiple technical specialties.
Exhibits
GLIT offers a one-stop manufacturing solution that can begin with procurement of mechanical components and continue through assembly, coordinating member-company capabilities for work that crosses multiple manufacturing processes. The consortium's manufacturing scope includes parts, jigs and tools, equipment fabrication, design development, prototype making, and mass production for applications such as semiconductor manufacturing equipment, medical devices, aerospace, electric vehicles, nuclear power, home appliances, satellites, optical equipment, and renewable energy. One member, Suzuki-Industry Co.,Ltd, provides sheet-metal blanking, bending, and welding and describes approximately 60 years of technical experience in precision sheet metal and welded can manufacturing. Suzuki-Industry's listed processes include turret punching, laser cutting, bending, and gas, arc, and semi-automatic welding, with application materials including steel, SUS, and aluminum in thicknesses from 0.5t to 6.0t. For this sheet-metal capability, the stated maximum application size is 1,200W by 2,400L by 2,300H, and major products include control boards and distributor boxes across multiple fields. Another member, SOWA CO., LTD., designs and produces test equipment and performs 3D resin machining from small to large sizes, with a process in which sales and design discuss a rough plan with the customer, prepare a concept drawing, confirm detailed conditions, and proceed to production after final drawing and estimate approval. SOWA's main products include test devices for pressure, temperature, and flow measurement, pressure-proof transparent ducts rated up to max.1MP, chemical-resistance equipment, large resin products, and jigs. Its fluid-visualization research equipment uses easily replaceable transparent acrylic pipes machined from resin blocks and polished, while a fluid-junction model uses a transparent cylinder and blue piston made from machined and polished resin blocks. SOWA also lists laser 3D molding in Inconel 718 for lower-cost production of complex shapes using difficult-to-cut materials including SUS, Titanium, Inconel, Aluminum, and Maraging steels. Its large 3D machining center is specified at 1600 by 1300 by 600, with an example of drilling a φ150 hole in the body of a φ600 pipe. A chemical-proof filter example is specified with more than 2,500 φ0.2 holes per square inch on a triangular surface, illustrating the fine-feature machining included in the member's resin and equipment work. By combining such member capabilities, GLIT can connect mechanical-component sourcing, precision sheet-metal processing, welding, resin machining, test-equipment design, specialized 3D processing, equipment fabrication, and assembly within the same collaborative manufacturing framework.
Capabilities and products
- one-stop collaborative manufacturing from mechanical-component procurement to assembly
- collaborative manufacturing from design development and prototyping to mass production