NIKKEI Monozukuri March 2007

Cover Story
Gas-Powe red Cars - Tactics for Improving Fuel Consumption

Part 1 : Environmental regulations
Part 2 :Nissan, Daihatsu, Honda, Toyota, ART METAL MFG., Nippon Piston Ring, TPR, Taiho Kogyo, Denso/Nittan Valve, Bridgestone, Idemitsu Kosan
Part 3 :The year 2012 - Improvements in engine/transmission/control: Integrated approach sways competitiveness

Interview

Tetsuji Mino: President, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.

Kaleidoscope

Why do ultra high-end tissues sell well?, etc.

Detailed Reports

Siemens of Germany buys UGS of the USt
Matsushita Electric’s technology to make digital cameras thinner
Why Honda, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and others are going into renewable energy
CoCreate offers free 3D CAD software
National project supporting the development of electric car batteries gets under way
The relationship between V-shaped recovery and R&D expenditure as seen at Matsushita Electric and Mitsubishi Electric

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

(Part 15)Rubber coming off heat rollers - Masterful techniques that are overlooked due to simplicity

Special Report

Incidents of wheel bolts on large vehicles breaking off - the problem isn’t just in how they’re tightened
Learning from toys, the essence of manufacturing

The Method

ABCs for reforming/improving business (Final Part) application examples

Toyota Production System and Its New Developments

(Final Part)How to proceed with improvements and observation points

Material Dynamics Mandala

(Final Part)Urgent recommendation“Be cautious with constriction”

Outstanding SMEs

AVEX.
AMAGEN.

The Master

(Part 33)The dangers of being an impersonator

Accident Investigation

Combustion from a Matsushita Electric dishwasher

Frank Opinion

International standardization is a double-edged sword - It is indispensable to follow up by building
Frank Opinion a business strategy

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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.