Lilium-SPOT®2 certified as the Kawasaki Innovation Standard

The ultrasound device Lilium-SPOT®2 has been certified as a 2021 Kawasaki International Standards (KIS) Certified Welfare Product and the certification ceremony was held at Station Conference Kawasaki on March 17, 2021.

In order to promote Welfare Innovation, which aims to create new vitality and social value by integrating industry and welfare, Kawasaki City subsidizes the cost of introducing Kawasaki Standards (KIS) certified products, which are the city's original welfare product standards for establishments in the city (within the certification period only). ^※1

Since FY 2021, in addition to monitoring evaluations at welfare facilities, the safety and performance of welfare products have received third-party evaluated by the Kawasaki Welfare Technology Lab (abbreviation: Weltec) ^※2, a facility for the development and improvement of welfare products.

At the certification ceremony, Professor Yoshifumi Nishida of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology gave a special lecture titled Development of New Welfare Equipment through Life-Centric Design. He reported on his efforts at social implementation of these concepts through Weltech, a facility with the ability to improve product and process design in order to address problems such as mobility-related falls by the elderly.

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the monitoring facilities in Kawasaki City and all the people involved with Weltec for their deep cooperation in this KIS certification. We hope that our products will contribute to solving social issues related to urination at home and in facilities by making it possible to "visualize" the accumulation of urine, which has been an "unmanageable" issue until now.

Lilium Otsuka will continue to develop unique products that only Otsuka can offer in order to help people around the world become more self-reliant in urinating. We will continue to do so to in order to contribute to the health of people around the world, consistent with the Otsuka group's corporate philosophy of Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide.

※1 The city of Kawasaki is working to certify innovative welfare products based on the city's own standards, which consist of eight principles based on "support for self-reliance" (respect for personality and dignity, reflection of users' opinions, self-determination, comprehensive understanding of needs, activation of activity capabilities, ease of use, safety and security, and normalization).。
※2 Weltec, which stands for Kawasaki Welfare Technology Lab Kawasaki Welfare Technology Lab, is jointly operated by Kawasaki City, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to support developers, mainly small- and medium-sized companies and venture businesses in the city, that develop and improve welfare products.