artience Launched a practical energy-saving education program at Shibaura Institute of Technology, focusing on the Tomiyasu Metal Printing headquarters factory

artience Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director Satoru Takashima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has partnered with Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd. (Representative Director Yosuke Kikui, Soka City, Saitama Prefecture), a TOYO INK CO., LTD. customer of artience group, to begin offering practical energy-saving education programs at Shibaura Institute of Technology starting June 2026.
This program is part of the Environmental Field Training Program for students from the Department of Environmental Systems, Faculty of System Science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology (from the 2026 academic year, Architecture and Environmental Process). artience will promote and implement energy-saving activities at Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd., and also serve as an instructor for this program.

While energy conservation is a highly effective measure to enhance corporate value through business management improvement and environmental responses, there are cases where sufficient efforts are not made due to a shortage of personnel.
This program is part of artience 's energy-saving promotion support service "EneActDesign ™," and is a practical educational program that uses the headquarters factory of Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd. as a subject to learn energy-saving methods through equipment configuration changes and operational optimization, as well as consensus-building techniques with stakeholders. It provides students with insights into exploring energy-saving opportunities and data analysis, and through practical practice by proposing ideas confirmed, students present their ideas as outputs, thereby contributing to the development of talent capable of promoting energy-saving activities in companies.

Through the EneActDesign ™ business, artience will promote industry-academia collaboration and the development of next-generation talent to realize a future where companies can advance cross-organizational energy-saving activities.

Comments from Professor Tomoko Iwata, Vice President of Shibaura Institute of Technology; Director of the SDGs Promotion Office; Director of the DE&I Promotion Office; and Professor in the School of Systems Science and Engineering

The greatest feature of EneActDesign ™ is that instead of experts presenting improvement measures unilaterally, they collaborate with the field through ongoing dialogue to devise practical energy-saving measures and accumulate small success stories through support-driven support. This initiative also envisions building an organization where the field can identify issues themselves and continuously improve the area, which sets us apart from traditional energy-saving consulting.
We hope students will see the manufacturing site firsthand to deepen their understanding of equipment and energy usage, and to practically learn how energy-saving experts identify issues and propose improvements. We also hope that communication with people working on site and attitudes as working adults will provide opportunities to broaden their future career paths and career choices.

Comments from Tomohiro Otani, Factory Manager of Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd. headquarters factory

In recent years, there has been a strong demand to address rising energy costs and CO2 reductions. The importance of energy-saving activities is increasing even more.
I feel it is important for all employees to tackle these challenges toward their goals, not just a few in charge. To achieve this, I believe that the results of activities such as challenging for the Energy Conservation Grand Prize are essential for boosting employee motivation. I expect EneActDesign ™ to be a partner that supports everything from current situation analysis to improvement proposals and goal achievement. Through ongoing energy-saving activities, we want to achieve cost reduction and lower environmental impact.
For this class, I want to hear comments and ideas from a student's perspective, breaking free from conventional wisdom. Even simple questions are fresh. By combining your flexible ideas with our company's practical experience and resources, we are excited to create new initiatives that go beyond just energy saving. This initiative also serves to raise awareness among all employees, so please feel free to exchange opinions with our staff. I hope we can continue together in a fun way.

Comment from Jun Kawashima, artience Co., Ltd. Incubation Center (Business Manager, EneActDesign ™)

We are very pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with Tomiyasu Metal Printing and Shibaura Institute of Technology to engage in practical energy-saving activities. Our mission is to carefully design energy-saving activity systems tailored to each customer's and on-site needs, ensuring the implementation of these activities and leading to sustainable results. We signed a contract with Tomiyasu Metal Printing in March this year and are working together as one, including preparations, to implement various energy-saving measures. In this context, we believe that being able to collaborate through classes with students at Shibaura Institute of Technology, who will be responsible for solving future energy challenges, is highly meaningful for this project as well. We will do our utmost to ensure that this initiative leads to the results of Tomiyasu Metal Printing's energy-saving activities and provides students with practical learning and valuable experiences. We look forward to creating good results and wonderful experiences together with everyone. Thank you very much for your support.

About EneActDesign ™

EneActDesign ™ is a support service for promoting energy-saving activities for companies provided by artience Co., Ltd.. We offer practical schemes from the perspectives of production departments and facility managers that artience group has cultivated over the years. We support customers' energy-saving activities by building energy-saving activity systems, proposing and verifying their effectiveness, assisting with applications for award programs, assisting with seminar presentations, and mediating and coordinating with construction companies and manufacturers handling energy-saving products, which tend to be complicated.

About the Department of Architecture and Environment, Faculty of Systems Science and Technology, Shibaura Institute of Technology

The Department of Architecture and Environment at the School of Systems Science and Engineering at Shibaura Institute of Technology aims to cultivate human resources who can link "people," "nature," "architecture," and "towns" and control and manage them integrally as an "environmental system." It provides education that enables students to acquire practical learning applicable in real world and improves their planning and design skills. By combining lectures with exercises and practical exercises, students find meaning in learning themselves and repeatedly study theory and practice through a curriculum. For more details, please visit the website (https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/faculty/systems/arc-env/index.htmlhttps://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/en/academics/systems-engineering-and-science/arc-env/index.html) Please refer to the above.

About Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd.

Tomiyasu Metal Printing Co., Ltd. is a company specializing in metal printing of beverage cans, food cans, and more. Founded in 1964, it boasts one of the top market shares in the metal printing industry. For more details, please refer to our website (https://www.tomikin.co.jp/index.html).

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