While domestic high-spec PI tapes offer more than adequate performance, they are often over-engineered for specific applications. By selecting a “just-spec” grade from a Chinese manufacturer that perfectly matches the application’s needs, and verifying its quality through our Shanghai base, we achieved both cost reduction and quality maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cost reduction is required for PI tapes used in heat-resistant processes. However, since high-spec options are excessive for this application, the goal is to select an appropriate grade. Continued adoption of high-spec products serves as a cost-up factor. For actual applications, an acceptable\/usable level is more than sufficient. Price reduction negotiations for domestic high-spec products (reached limits), and substitution with alternative films (insufficient heat resistance). Through the development of new foreign suppliers + collaboration with overseas bases<\/a>, we adopted PI tape with cost suitability that perfectly matches the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n STEP. 01<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evaluating multiple Chinese-made PI tapes<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n STEP. 02<\/p>\n\n\n\n Setting necessary and sufficient specifications for the application<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n STEP. 03<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quality verification and local procurement via Shanghai Base<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n This solution is achieved through the division of roles across multiple bases. Achieved cost reduction. Specifications maintained at an acceptable\/usable level while preserving quality. The effects of implementing this solution extend beyond solving the primary issue. Please utilize this as material for internal and management-level proposals. Domestic specialized trading companies tend to offer only a single high-spec proposal. Fuji Chemi supports breaking away from excessive specifications through “application-specific grade design<\/strong>” and “quality verification at the Chinese base<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main specifications of the products with a proven track record of adoption can be selected from multiple grades depending on the application and requirement conditions. The representative specifications are as follows (please contact us for detailed specifications).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Previously, domestic high-spec PI tape was adopted, but it was over-engineered for the specific application.
\u25cfContext of emergence:<\/strong> Cost improvement phase.
\u25cfPrimary impacts:<\/strong> Deterioration of the cost-of-sales ratio, decline in price competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy High-Spec Products are Excessive: The Gap Between Actual Application Requirements and Specifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u25cfSpecific evidence:<\/strong> Physical property comparison of existing materials and processing tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCountermeasures Attempted So Far and Their Limitations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Based on these limitations, we adopted the following approach as a more drastic\/fundamental solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSolution Approach: Application-Specific Grade Design \u00d7 New Chinese Supplier Development \u00d7 Quality Verification via Shanghai Base<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Supplier Development<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Downgrading Proposals<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Local Collaboration<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Fujichemi Trading’s Supply System: Head Office \u00d7 Shanghai Base<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u30fb Head Office \/ Domestic Sales: Customer window and cost proposals
\u30fb Shanghai Base: Local manufacturer coordination and quality verification
\u25cfSupply System:<\/strong> Stable supply of overseas procured products.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResults of Implementation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u25cfKPI Candidates:<\/strong> Cost reduction \/ Maintaining zero quality complaints \/ Diversification of procurement routes.
\u25cfImplementation Lead Time:<\/strong> Repeating prototyping and evaluation to switch to mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnticipated Ripple Effects and Horizontal Deployment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u30fbApplying the same “application-specific grade design” to films for other processes (PET, PEN, PPS)
\u30fbModeling the “optimized selection proposal” in the electric wire and electronic component sectors
\u30fbBreaking out of sales commoditization through switching proposals from “high-spec to just-spec”
\u30fbCreating a case study of being adopted in the customer’s internal cost reduction projects<\/p>\n\n\n\nDifference from Competitors: Why Fuji Chemi Trading is Chosen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Product Information and Specification Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n