NIKKEI Monozukuri August 2007

Cover Story
The leading edge of utilizing 3D Data

  • Part1 : Are results to date adequate?
  • Part2 : Getting across the design concept
  • Part3 : Securing creative time
  • Part4 : Working data hard

Interview

Yasunobu Suzuki: Chairman, NTN Corporation

The Exquisite "X"

Looking at organizational activity through a microscope

Sites in Figures

Work-related troubles

Breaking News

  • Problems with test to reproduce the elevator accident in Minato Ward, Tokyo
  • Daikin reduces lead time for home-use air-conditioning units to 10.4 hours, the fastest in the world, at its core factory
  • The pros and cons of the Consumer Products Safety Law
  • Siemens’goal in purchasing UGS is the fusion of hypothetical lines and actual hardware

Detailed Reports

  • Vast array of products at the Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo offers new suggestions to prevent design information leakage

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

(Part 5)Design concepts for features and functions (1)

The Art of Visualization

(Part 5) Visualizing things in administration and indirect divisions (2)

Basic Geometric Tolerance

(Part 5) Orientation tolerance

Global Plant Safety

(Part 5) Risk analysis

Talking about Manufacturing in English

(Part 5) Production preparation

SME Relay

Ohmi Seisakujo/Nakata Manufacturing

From the Nikkei Monozukuri Blog

The die maker that let rip publicly at an auto maker with its real feelings

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

The color of paints is different in China and Japan - instructions should be given using the actual product rather than a color sample

The Master

It’s only a stepping stone, yet it is a stepping stone

Accident Investigation

A wind turbine collapses from its foundations - abnormal change in the blade angles that were supposed to be fixed

Documentary

Development of Lexus LS (Final Part) - A white vehicle in the headlights

Frank Opinion

“Goals first, then implementation”- By following this basic approach, you will eliminate a great deal of waste

EDITORS' BLOG

Pixel Qi and the Impending Apple "MediaBook?"

Following the latest Apple rumors is something of a Silicon Valley sport, so I'm going to put my own spin on one. Note this one has no basis on anything other then my own fevered imaginings, so treat accordingly. (May 22) read more

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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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