NIKKEI Monozukuri February 2007 -- Tech-On!

NIKKEI Monozukuri May 2007

Cover Story
Japan’s On-Site Strength-Part 2: Improving Morale

Section1 : The situation for engineers
Section2 : What engineers really think (from the round table discussion)
Section3 : Enineers’morale (Toray, Dai-Nippon Printing, PFU)

Cover Story
The secrets of Toyota’s world-leading on-site innovation

Special Report
Four urgent recommendations from Kiyoshi Sakurai for hidden critical nuclear accidents

Interview

Hiroshi Kagechika, Dr.-Eng., Senior Vice President, Director of Steel Research Laboratory, JFE Steel Corporation

The Exquisite "X"

The noise insulation wall which spreads a sense of quiet across a wide area

Sites in Figures

Preventing the leakage of design information

Breaking News

A combo washer-dryer in which the direction of the drum varies marketed by the latest entrant Mitsubishi Electric
New version of the 3D CAD software“NX”that makes on-site reviews and corrections easy
Thermal storage material used for heat countermeasures in electronic equipment - Mitsubishi Paper Mills incorporates silicon rubber
The consumption amount of various type of metal resources will be several times that of current deposits by 2050
s“Assemble where you can sell”- this is why a Danish company is investing in Japan

Detailed Reports

Urgent need for failsafe design following the reform of the Consumer Products Safety Law
Viewers and DMUs which enhance information

Mechatronics Course - The Plan to Develop a Tea- Serving Automaton

(Part 2) Quantifying the necessary specifications

The Art of Visualization

(Part 2) Visualizing things at the production site (1)

Basic Geometric Tolerance

(Part 2) 3D planar system datum and geometric special symbols

Global Plant Safety

(Part 2) Salient points of essential safe design

The Method

The Nakazawa Method - Part 2
How to evaluate information volume

Talking about Manufacturing in English

(Part 2) Development Period

SME Relay

Hasegawa Machine Works/Takahashi Teknia

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

Efficient small-turn machine processing components - the risks are in slipshod labor management

The Master

Micro mega-explosion

Documentary

Development of Lexus LS (Part 7) Obsession

Frank Opinion

The essence of the state-of-the art technology of the battleship Yamato and the turning point in Japan’s manufacturing design technology

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Nikkei Electronics Asia (monthly)

We are offering a magazine monthly to qualified engineers and managers free of charge.

In-depth Articles from Nikkei Electronics Asia

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.

Convenience Stores Lead in Energy Conservation

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.