From the Editor

The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) is one of the world’s most trusted evaluations for corporate sustainability today. Long concerned with climate issues and devoted to environmental education and green building promotion, Delta was recently honored in the 2018 DJSI world index as an Industry Leader in the category of Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components Industry. Together with the first prize of the “Corporate Social Responsibility Awards of CommonWealth Magazine” we just received, the third in a row, these recognitions demonstrate our consistent, outstanding performance and solid capabilities in the pursuit of sustainable development under severe challenges of global climate change and competition from companies across nations.

Delta has been developing smart streetlight solutions since 2010, with more than 600,000 LED streetlights installed around the world thus far. In this issue’s “Special Report”, we will cover how Delta's smart streetlight brand managed to go international and utilized functions such as remote monitoring, maintenance management, and lighting control to have street lighting in the city woven into a dense communication network, making it the backbone of Jakarta's for planning its smart city blueprint.

In this issue’s “About DSM”, we have obtained first-hand information on IA Technology Application Center in Wujiang, China. We will share with you how Delta's smart manufacturing solution helps with industry upgrades through its intelligent machine that has integrated visualized management on production manufacturing, production management, intelligent factory management, and energy management in one console. In “Brand People”, Delta's Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Simon Chang, tells us how the company managed to employ an innovative digital thinking style in a highly competitive and rapid changing environment , and to optimize its product solutions and business models to achieve the synergy.

In the CIIF Shanghai, using a large exhibition booth of 200 square meters in size, Delta employed its own experience as the base for a display of its full solution in smart manufacturing in. Delta also continues to cross borders with its high-quality products. Its video equipment and network communication infrastructure products have created the ideal applications for the Indian government and Spanish Ceramics Company. Delta also uses its solutions in building automation, fan, heat dissipation, renewable energy, and energy efficiency to help the Sino-French team of Xiamen University to achieve the third place in an international solar competition. These exciting stories are featured in this issue’s “Brand Circle”.

For this issue’s “Delta Green Life”, we will share how the Ginza "Roof Garden" in Tokyo managed to build one roof oasis after another in the city’s urban jungle that combines modern technology and artistic beauty to cools the building. The “Low-carbon Lohas” column is about the brilliant story of how a colleague implemented a low-carbon living after becoming a Delta volunteer. Don’t miss this issue’s “People” column, as our electric vehicle team in Detroit have some exciting stories.