NIKKEI Monozukuri November 2005

Feature
The Era of Self-Manufacturing

Part 1 : Reasons Why More Companies Start Self-Manufacturing
Part 2 : Case Studies
The NEC Group, Mazda Motor Corporation, Citizen Precision Machinery Co., Ltd.,Showa Corporation,Sony Manufacturing Systems Corporation,Jujo Electronics Corporation

Frank Opinion

The principle that"small"is better than"large"is respected at flexible production sites

Kaleidoscope

Japan's industrial design enters a new era on the strength of creativity and comprehensive capabilities for manufacturing

Detailed Reports

The presence of the world's smallest components has increased as devices are becoming smaller and more multifunctional
Canon commercializes multifunctional printers that have achieved a part recycling rate of about 90%
UGS announces the release of a PLM solution for small and midsize manufacturers, whose main aim is speedy operation
Fujitsu Laboratories develops an X-ray-based detection method

China's Secrets,Japan's Secret Plans

(Part 11) Reasons why copied products are sometimes better than original ones; Chinese manufacturers are incredibly zealous about gathering information

New Ideas

The length of conveyors can be adjusted by sliding triangle plates

Search for Manufacturing

Small and mid-sized companies as receivers of business orders

Special Report

Flash report on technology from the Tokyo Motor Show 2005
The R-map method is a guide for safety designing
PLM solutions have been adopted more widely in preparation for the next leap

The Method

Sony's Six Sigma (Final Part) Procedures for project activities

Essence of Standardization

(Part 2) Standardization of procedures for new product development

Documentary

Comeback of mechanical watches (Part 3): Why mechanical watches, now?

Studying Hot Products

Rear Projection TV Sets: Reasonably-priced models with screens larger than 50 inches are looming as a "dark horse"in the large-screen TV market

Material Dynamics Mandala

(Part 11) What kind of shape of cross section is resistant to deflection?

Treasure Box of Embedded Software

(Part 11) Standards for skills designed to educate software engineers

Outstanding SMEs

TENPAKU·R, which is known for manufacturing plastic prototypes, offers a service that converts developers'concepts into a visible form
NDK Inc., which is known for ultrasonic machining, says you can't sell processing machines without knowing about processing

The Master

(Part 18) Profits lie in the neighborhood of deep discount markets

Accident Investigation

Fire shutters can hurt people, and smoke detectors malfunction on a routine basis

Diary of an IT Consultant

A company aiming at connecting production with sales directly faces difficulties in projecting revenues

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Cover Story SSDs Challenge HDDs, but Quality a Problem

Solid-state drives (SSD) using NAND Flash memory are beginning to show up in a variety of equipment as storage devices. Prices are dropping as semiconductor technology continues to evolve, accelerating adoption of the drives, but manufacturers must also deal with eroding quality.

Analysis Expanded Use of Silicon Tuners Transforms Tvs

With analog television broadcasting slated for the axe in about two years in Japan, TV broadcast tuners are evolving rapidly, replacing old radio frequency (RF) analog circuits with new integrated circuits (IC) called silicon tuners. Signal demodulators are evolving with them, and by tracing the direction of their evolution it is possible to delineate the shape of tomorrow's TV.

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Convenience store franchises are moving to slash energy consumption following the revision of the Japanese Act on the Rational Use of Energy, and are rapidly becoming showcases for cutting-edge energy-conservation technology. The technologies honed here will spread to other firms in the distribution industry, office buildings and more, eventually worldwide.