Ricoh’s 39,000 m² Atsugi expansion, battery-powered BLE labels, and a 0.25% Fed hike — plus seven more stories | BPJ News Evening Edition
Supply-side buildouts (heads, service, plates) are accelerating at the same time as operational failures (AI permissions, wrong answers). The assumptions behind investment and quality are getting shaken.
Ricoh will build a new roughly 39,000 m² building in Atsugi and set up for inkjet head output to become “more than double” in the future (Ricoh, September 18, 2026). Meanwhile, AI keeps producing incidents—from intrusions during safety tests to misinformation risk—and shop-floor implementation debates are shifting from “performance” to “permissions, kill switches, and logs.”
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
Capital investment decisions no longer close on “machine performance comparisons” alone. The decision axis has widened sideways: components and service networks that determine real supply capacity, how far environmental requirements reach into upstream processes, and even how you design permissions and validation when you wire AI into operations.…
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