NIKKEI Monozukuri January 2008

Cover Story
Heretical Ideas for Saving the World - The Lack of Water and Global Warming

Overview: The Lack of Water and Global Warming Are Indeed Economic Problems, but the Challenge Can be Conquered with Technology
Idea 1: Generating Electricity and Fresh Water by Using Tiny Differences in Seawater temperature (Xenesys)
Idea 2: Dye Quality Pigment Technology that Does Not Use Water (Inkmax and Mitsubishi Pencil)
Idea 3: Large Volumes of Fresh Water Stored in Bags and Transported by Floating on the Sea (MTI)
Idea 4: Doubling the Efficiency of Solar Cells by Multi-Layering Microscopic Structures (University of Tsukuba)
Idea 5: Global Warming High-Coefficient Gases Recovered and Purified for Re-use (OKI and DAP)
Idea 6: A Completely New Type of Resin that Uses Carbon Dioxide as a Raw Material (The University of Tokyo and Others)

Interview

Etsuhiko Shoyama: Chairman of the Board, Hitachi Ltd.

The Exquisite "X"

High-Tech Textiles Created by Geographical Advantage

Sites in Figures

The Damage Caused by Counterfeit Products, and Countermeasures

Breaking News

Robot Development in Pursuit of Coexistence with Humans
The Decisions Taken at the Climate Change Conference in Bali
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Applies Friction Stir Welding to Steel
Hitachi Tool Engineering’s Deep-Hole Processing Drill Achieves L/D=100 Aspect Ratio with New Structure

Detailed Reports

3D Annotated Model Moves Closer to the Practical Phase

Special Report

Can Be Done Immediately! A Method for Reducing Time of Changing Setups

Special Report

What Are Manufacturers Promising in Terms of Product Safety?

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

(Part 10) Development Policy for the Embedded Software

The Art of Visualization

(Part 10)Visualizing the Daily Business and Administration of Administrative Divisions (2)

Basic Tolerance Design

(Part 1)Thinking of Overall Cost

Global Plant Safety

(Part 10)Actual Examples of Production Facility Risk Assessment Using Robots

Talking about Manufacturing in English

(Part 10)Mixed Production

SME Relay

NAKANIHON-ROKOGYO - New Markets with Small Vacuum Heat-Processing Furnaces SAITO

MOLD MFG - Chasing After Efficiency by Integrating Molding and Die Divisions.

How to Select and Buy Low-Priced Parts in China

Mold Makers Who Are Not Strict About Supervising Measurements - Communications Between Technicians Will Reduce Mistakes

The Master

Even If All the Sand on the Beaches Is Used Up…

Accident Investigation

The Earthquake that Caught a Shinkansen (Bullet Train) Traveling at 200km/h by Surprise

Frank Opinion

It’s Stupid to Break Down Manufacturing to its Elements - We Should Cultivate a Multi-Faceted Overall Perspective

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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.