NIKKEI Monozukuri October 2007

Cover Story
Focusing on Die and Mold. Both Large Companies and SMEs Strengthen Internal Production Capacity

Part1 : The Times and Die and Mold
Part2 : The Development Process and Die and Mold
Part3 : Product Competitiveness and Die and Mold
Part4 : Business Models and Die and Mold

Interview

Yoshihisa Imaizumi: President and Chief Executive Officer, PLUS Corporation

The Exquisite "X"

Do You Understand Differences in Molding Conditions?

Sites in Figures

Procuring Components and Materials

Breaking News

Daihatsu Develops a Fuel Battery That Uses No Platinum
A CAM Software for 5-spindle Controlled Machining from the United States Automatically Recognizes Features
Nepon Reduces Inventory by Standardizing Product Numbers in Conjunction with the Introduction of ERP
Examples of “Kaizen” as Announced by Manufacturing Site Leaders - How Even Freshman Employees Can Improve Production Lines
Multi-Faceted Approaches Progress in Looking To TRIZ Applications

Detailed Reports

The Leading Edge of Hole-Making - Small and Deep
Aiming to Find a Solution to Resource Problems within 5 Years. Themes Selected for Alternative Materials to Rare Metals

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

(Part 7)Concept Design for the Controls (2)

The Art of Visualization

(Part 7)VM Implementation To Achieve Visualization of the Manufacturing Site (1)

Basic Geometric Tolerance

(Part 7)Positioning Tolerance

Global Plant Safety

(Part 7)Measures for Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction for Production Facilities (1)

Talking about Manufacturing in English

(Part 7)Initial Production Control

SME Relay

Yodogawa Medec /Hamano Seisakusho

From the Nikkei Monozukuri Blog

What Can You Learn from an Electric Fan Accident?

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

Obtaining Replacement Components Easily in an Electronics Shopping Mall. The Hidden Risks behind Old Stock

The Master

Selling Is a Spiritual Luxury

Accident Investigation

Matsushita Also Involved in Major Recall - Trouble with Lithium-Ion Batteries

Frank Opinion

Think of the Significance of Hiding Electric Cables and Wake Up to the Debt You Owe

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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.

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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.