Japan’s Ministry of Economy needed a standardised framework to assess and track digitalisation across its manufacturing sector.
SIRI deployed as the national manufacturing digitalisation benchmark, informing industrial policy across 1,000+ factories.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry launched a major initiative to accelerate digitalisation across its manufacturing sector and needed consistent data to guide policy.
The Policy Challenge
Industrial policy requires data. Without a standardised assessment framework, a national view of manufacturing readiness is assembled from inconsistent self-reported information.
National SIRI Deployment
METI selected SIRI as the national manufacturing digitalisation assessment standard and deployed it across 1,000+ factories through a network of certified Japanese assessors.
Policy Impact
SIRI data directly informed subsidy programmes, training initiatives, and sector-specific digitalisation targets, allowing policy to adapt based on evidence rather than assumption.