NIKKEI Monozukuri September 2007

Cover Story
Nissan’s Short-Lived Recovery - Warning Lights are Flashing on Site

Part1 : The Essence of the Critical Moment
Part2 : Changes in the Cooperation
Part3 : Confusion That Came Back from Suppliers
Part4 : Learning from Isuzu Motors
Part5 : The New Japanese Style in Manufacturing

Interview

Shigehiko Hattori; President and Chief Executive Officer, SHIMADZU Corporation

The Exquisite "X"

Coating Technology That Underpins the shachihoko from the Base

Sites in Figures

The Current State of Recognition and Introduction of PLM

Breaking News

TOTO Applies its Toilet Manufacturing Technology to Home-Use Fuel Cells
Olympus Comes Up with Design Technology for Lens with a 360-degree Horizontal Angle of View
Linking Machine Design and Electrical Design
Toyota Road-Tests a Hybrid Car That Can Be Recharged at Home
The First Quarter of Fiscal 2007 Year Was Mixed, with Approaches to the Overseas Market BeingReflected in Performance

Detailed Reports

The Local Companies That Lost Out in the Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake
Points of Agreement Concerning the Domestic Jet That Mitsubishi Heavy and IHI Are Building

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

(Part 6)Design concepts for features and functions (2)

The Art of Visualization

(Part 6) Visualizing Operation in Administration and Indirect Divisions

Basic Geometric Tolerance

(Part 6) Run-Out Tolerance

Global Plant Safety

(Part 6) Risk Assessment and Measures for Risk Reduction

Talking about Manufacturing in English

(Part 6)Production Layout

SME Relay

MINARO/Sanwa Plating Industry

From the Nikkei Monozukuri Blog

Freedom, Not Management - How to Improve Engineer’s Motivation

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

Bargains in Non-Brand Motors - Things Will Go Well If You Negotiate to Buy the Entire Motor Unit

The Master

The Ice That Outstripped Space and Time

Accident Investigation

The Tosa Kuroshio Railway Accident

Frank Opinion

Breaking Down the Idea of “It's Not Common Practice” - A Product Which Has the Approval of Everyone Will Not Be a Hit

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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.