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Saisho Onkyo Inc, (SOI) is registered with the Philippines Export Processing Zone as a manufacturer and exporter of speakers and speaker systems. Saisho Onkyo Inc. caters mainly to the design and manufacture of both OEM and ODM products. Its mother unit, Dai-ichi Electronics Manufacturing Corp., or DEMC does the same but manufacture for the Phils. domestic market. Aside from OEM and ODM products, it distributes its own brand under the label of Dai-ichi, and other host of registered trademarks listed in the Phils. patent office.
Company Vision
To have Dai-ichi be recognized as one of the best, sounding speaker Manufacturing here in the Phils., that is reasonably affordable and comparable to the world's best.
Company Mission
To utilize home grown talents in doing applied research, design development of loudspeaker products that can compete and gain recognition as one of the best in terms of performance and product quality.
The strategic approach is to partner with IP companies, (w/ special products) and the task of Dai-ichi is to make it possible through manufacturing and product commercialization.
Being vertically integrated by using state of the art manufacturing equipment and methodologies made possible the commercialization of high tech materials.
The key strengths of both Saisho Onkyo Inc. and Dai-ichi Electronics are in its ability to provide the following to customers
- In-house design and prototyping capabilities employing state of the art, Computer aided design, prototyping facilities and test equipment, with a strong research and development group comprising of more than 40 highly trained and highly skilled engineers and technicians. The English speaking engineers works directly with the customer in coming up with products that suits their requirements.
- World class quality products design and manufacture by the adaptation of ISO 9001 quality management system. DEMC is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company by TUV Rhineland, on May ,2002 and SOI is an ISO 9001:1994 recertified by AJA, Nov., 2001. Unlike most companies, where they only one certificate, DAI-ICHI have 10 certificate, including service centers and showrooms (ISO 9002). Originally certified since May, 1998.
- Highly vertically integrated manufacturing facilities capable of doing the ff.
- Speaker parts design and manufacture, of all hard parts, soft parts, are produce in house with standard and custom production facility except for centerpole and magnets. The ability to make the soft parts (cone, damper and dust caps, surrounds, voice coils, ) offers customers with design flexibility enabling the company to come up with speakers that sound the way they wanted it.
- The parts manufacturing is further enhanced by finishes comprising of powder coating, plating, painting, silk screen and pad printing, and stencil printing.
- Tooling design and fabrication facilities, employing computer aided design tools and CNC lathe and machining centers.
- Design and fabrication of semi-automatic production lines, semi automatic gluing workstations, jigs and fixtures, assembly tools thereby equipping our more than 700 strong highly trained operators and staff the capability to achieve world class product manufacturing.
- Manufacturing workspace of more than 50,000 square meters and with approximately manufacturing volume capacity of around 1 million speakers a month.
- With in-house plastic injection, metal stamping, and with wood working facilities of speaker cabinets using 3 axis CNC routers, for complex cabinets design, membrane press for vinyl laminations on cabinets, fiberglass laminated and real wood veneer application for high end speaker cabinets production line are in process.
- The huge rotomolding facility, enabling to make destruction proof large outdoor weatherproof speaker cabinets. The 5 axis CNC router finishes is used to cut said cabinets with complex design in one setting.
With more than 30 years of design and manufacturing experience, the corporate engineering dept. design and manufacture products strictly in accordance within customer's mandated specifications, with product consistencies falling within agreed tolerances. The company can make the original prototype design through the use of innovative manufacturing methodologies, not only the company can build the product to specs, but also make it better and consistent.
Dai-ichi's range of products areas covers the ff. application areas :, automotive, audio-video, home theater, home hifi, multi-media, audio-video (tv speaker), Karaoke, alarm speakers, commercial sound (Public address, sound reinforcement, custom installation of sound systems in hotels, restaurants, theme parks, embassies, , churches etc.).
Dai-ichi also prides itself in the way it does business with customers, more on a personalize level, grounded firmly on the principles of business ethics, with honesty, fairness, and integrity that we can deliver products based on the agreed quality level, lead time, at a reasonably fair price, and providing protection also to customer's intellectual property.
By such approach in doing business, the company from its very conception in 1969, have been characterized by continued high growth, profitability and stability, as evidenced by its dominance of the Phils. market, supplying to almost all the OEM market, and majority of the branded market. To name a few : Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, LG, Samsung, Fujitsu Ten, Toyota, Mistubishi, Nissan, Honda, Isuzu Ford. Export OEM and ODM supplier to more than hundreds of satisfied customers of major brands, and to more than 46 countries world wide such as KEF, Celestion, Macrom, Phoenix Gold, Radio Shack, Kenwood, TDJ, Coustic, MTX, Macrom, Cerwin Vega, Magnadyne, Mito, Peavey, Monster Cable, and automotive speaker custom built for Freightliner, Peterbilt, and major R/V in the US. Replacement OEM after market speaker for Chrysler, Daimler, Volkswagen Volvo. Had been supplier also to JVC, Polk Audio, Jensen etc.
Dai-ichi offers free lifetime service warranty for domestic products to prove the company's long term confidence in the products it makes.
Saisho Onkyo Inc. was awarded in 1991 the Golden Shell award as best export company by the Phils. gov't and Dai-Ichi Electronics was voted as marketing company of the year in 1995. It has received foreign recognitions, Export Company of the year 1987, and Europe Export Award, in 1988.
Dai-ichi is also an NXT and SLAB manufacturing licensee, and research partner for flat panel speakers.
To maintain continuous competitiveness by being able to offer customer high valued and high performance products, the company's emphasis and strength lies in the applied research activities in collaboration with the ff. outfits to develop the unique technologies for use in improving the performance of the speaker product. The soft parts is analogous to software which is the soul of the computer. Without the software, the computer is useless. This we made possible by being fully vertically integrated, i.e being able to manufacture speaker & accessories parts in house.
- Dupont, USA - research partner, co-developed a unique of blend of acoustic paper employing nomex and kevlar high performance fibers. The company employs numerous Dupont made products such us mylar, kaladex, kevlar, Centari paints, nomex spider etc.
- Korean Institute of Technology (KIST)/P& I (Plasma and Ion) - joint venture company and research partner doing on-going development work is being done using patented surface modification technology as applied in the PVDF (Polyvinylidene fluoride) film (with piezoelectric properties )for use into speakers.
This outfit is manned by Ph.D. scientist coming from the Korean Institute of technology,had developed a surface modification process capable of modifying the sonic characteristics of the PVDF film and currently we are doing development work together to product PVDF based film speaker, speakers that works with voltage instead of conventional magnet with voice coil.
- Georgia Tech - use of their patented technology in powdercoating kevlar fibers with polypropylene for better damping characteristics that had been woven into matte for use in thermoforming cones.
- Oakridge Research National Laboratory - research partner doing work on heat transfer foam in speaker heat transfer possibility for mass production.
- Armstrong World Industries, the biggest manufacturer of ceiling tiles and flooring tiles, Dai-ichi did the design and manufacturing of ceiling tile speakers, currently being recognized as probably being the best sounding ceiling tile speakers. (Website : www.armstrong.com) The technology employed in making the flat panels speakers are patented and assigned to Armstrong by Dai-ichi.
- Shell Shocked Sound (S3i), a joint venture subsidiary company with Edge Technologies of Ames, Iowa (website : www. etrema-usa.com). Patent holder of sonar technology The product on-going development is a folded shell radial speaker with enormous radiating area for high sensitivity reproduction whose technology is licensed to S3i by the Canadian navy.
- EOSS's soundpoles, joint venture company and research arm whose main product is a line array home hifi speaker system, designed to project the sonic image to the back and able to recreate the original recorded music the way music should be listened with no sweet spot, with high source image accuracy resolution and real ambience. WCES design and Innovation award winner for 2000 and 2001. (www.soundpoles.com).
- Digital Sonic, whose product is a flat panel film membrane satellite speaker, used for multimedia and home theater satellites, a patented design developed by Dai-ichi and assigned the patent to Digital Sonic. This satellite drive unit is an innovative way of combining of technologies of high end planar drivers and electrostatic speakers, with the performance but not the cost.
- Bohlender-Graebener Corp. or BGC, joint venture company and research partner whose product is an 8" planar driver and 3" planar tweeter, capable of handling more power and higher sensitivity then previously designed planar drivers available in the market. (www.bgcorp.com)
- Dai-ichi owned US based Crystal Mobile Sound, brand "Crystal" winner and world record holder of the highest SPL subwoofer output in the 2001 dB-DRAG contest in the US, using Dai-ichi patented design of paper honeycomb cone , a cone structure
that is strong and light, can deliver high output and withstand the stresses of high power inputs to the tune of 4000 watts. (website : www. Crystalmobilesound.com)
- Electronic auto System - Dai-1chi's OEM US based manufacturer, who now makes subwoofers for Carver, USA and also Cyrstal Mobile Sound subwoofers, and also woofers for sound reinforcement and Public address for the US market.
The research partners or joint venture (JV) companies main product lines are high technology based and the main reason of their cooperation with Dai-ichi is based not only on the recognition of our design and manufacturing capabilities, which can implement on their design concept to reality, and also they can trust us that their intellectual property is being developed to become a real marketing product.
In recognition of market forces that demands better quality speaker products. Dai-ichi had expanded, with its new off shore manufacturing facility, first phase of 13,000 square meter in size, and expected to be operational by the end of the 2003, in Chia Ting, Shanghai, China. The city of Chia Ting is also dubbed as the "Automotive City", owing to the huge manufacturing facility that makes Volkswagen cars.
Since Dai-ichi started out in 1972 and became incorporated in 1976, Dai-ichi maintains an exceptionally strong commitment to excellence, and continue to meet expectations of our customers through quality world class s peaker products and services.
We aim for superiority in everything we do. From customer order to the delivery of the products, we believe that this is merely a starting point in building long relationship.
We believe that quality will never be compromised. Through continued innovation, we can meet any future audio challenges. While many of our products are designed for home audio solutions and professional, commercial speaker system, you’ll find
Dai-ichi sound also in car audio and custom installation.
MILESTONE
1969 - Micro global incorporated as partnership buying speaker part, CKD from Japan and assembly in the Philippines for transistor radio.
1975 - Partnership was changed to Incorporation as Dai-ichi Electronics for supplying OEM speakers.
1976 - Dai-ichi enters the professional ranks by producing loud speaker and speaker systems of all application, in smaller scale headphones, cassettes, and other electrical / electronics products.
1979 - Dai-ichi expanded its market and open its door globally started exporting OEM Automotive speaker and OEM Hi-fi speaker. Serving the areas of North and Centra l America, Europe, Asia and the pacific region.
1981- Dai-ichi became the industry leader in the Philippines with its clientele: SHARP, SONY, PANASONIC, MITSUBISHI, FORD, ISUZU, PHILIPS,
HONDA, FUJITSU TEN, TOYOTA, ASTRON, SANYO, SAMSUNG and UNIDEN and many more.
1987 - Dai-ichi was awarded as the Export Company of the year in Madrid, Spain
1988 - Dai-ichi was awarded again as the Export Company of the year by in Madrid, Spain
1989 - Saisho Onkyo Inc. was formed to become the export arm of Dai-ichi to expand and complete globally.
1990 - Saisho Onkyo Inc. formed a joint venture co. called Goldmax with Goldpeak Industries. A listed Public co. in Hongkong and Singapore in Wei Chou, Guandong province for speaker manufacturing.
1991 - Dai-ichi was awarded as a Golden Shell awardee. (Award given by the Phil. Government to the leading Export Companies in the Phils.)
1995 - Dai-ichi was awarded as the marketing company of the year in Agora foundation (considered a Nobel prize Award for Phil. Domestic Mktng. Company)
1998 - Dai-ichi was certified with ISO 9001 Certification not as a company but per department level.
- Saisho Onkyo was also certified with ISO 9001 Certification
1999 - Established Neodymium Planar Driver and Honeycomb Cone Assembly
2000 -Established a Flat panel Ceiling Tile Speaker Assembly exclusive for Armstrong Industries.
-Goldmax merge with GPE, a sister public Company list in Hongkong and Singapore. makers of high end Hi-fi high power amplifier.
2001 -Established a Roto-Molding Machine line for Sound Touring speaker system and out door speaker cabinet.
2002 - Dai-ichi and Saisho Onkyo were re-certified under 2000 version of ISO 9001
2003 - Ground breaking First Phase 13,000 square meter factory in Chia Ting Shanghai.
- GPE ground breaking Second Phase state of the Art Electronics and Audio factory in Wei Chou, Guandong.
EXCELLENT VERTICALLY INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY
- Complete Metal Workshop
- Complete CNC Machine Center with advanced lathing and milling capabilities
- Voice Coil production line
- High capacity semi-automatic speaker production lines: over a million speaker per month
- 5 Axis CNC Router
WORLD CLASS TEAM
- 40 High caliber engineers, designers and technicians
- Electrical Engineers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Chemical Engineers
- Graphic Designers
- Mock-up Designers
- Computer Aided Drafting
WORLD CLASS SERVICE PROVIDER
The excellent technical support and documentation teams at Dai-ichi are always ready to deliver quick and effective
service before and after sales. Available are a host of sophisticated catalogs and sales kits, test reports, quality manuals, and other marketing and technical materials. Furthermore, for after sales, the technical support team work closely with R&D to resolve service calls and provide other forms of support like quick response to email queries.
Competetive Material Cost
- Cost effective production strategy
- Well - developed network of resources and alliances
- Industry Leading Products and Services
- Innovative product design
- Exceptional branding and distribution
- Top quality products with comprehensive documentation
- Responsive customer service and technical
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