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“Will this machine be operated by primarily male or female workers?” “When pushing buttons while looking at the programming screen, what are the optimal specifications of location and height of buttons, and the size of the screen?” These are some of the detailed questions that may arise in a meeting between designers of the technology department of Iwashita Industrial Co., Ltd. and clients. After the clients’ requests and views on specifications for the comfort and ease of equipment operation are collected, the designers will make proposals, revise, and make proposals again; repeating the process over and over. The resulting equipment has the finesse of an immaculately tailored custom suit. The […]

Five nine” is 99.999% pure aluminum, material manufacturers from all over the world are eager to obtain it. Hokusei Metal Products (hereinafter “Hokusei Products”) in Takaoka city, Toyama prefecture, has its’ own technology to process this “five nine” without degrading the purity. They have expanded with clients that were not thought to be target companies for the aluminium industry before, such as the pharmaceutical and food industry, and they are remaking the industrial map. Above all, Hokusei Products package production for drugs has received widespread attention. Since it involves human lives competitors have avoided participating, but Hokusei Products have a technique for manufacturing aluminum to keep the highest level of […]

CrossEffect is known for their work developing and prototyping industrial plastic products used for items such as cell phones. Their speciality is their resin processing technology called Laser Prototyping. Boasting the “world’s fastest” prototype production speed,crossEffect supports their clients in product development. Furthermore, as the second pillar of their business, they have developed Cardio Simulators: 3D models of hearts based on CT data. Cardio Simulators are soft 3D models of hearts created, based on CT scans taken at hospitals, through the use of DICOM data, laser prototyping technology, and special molds. Not only the outer surface, but the inner cavities and affected areas are reproduced with great accuracy. It’s even […]

He had been conscious about that since ABIT’s establishment and coined the slogan “Evolve every 5 years!” In fact, ABIT starts a new business every 5 years. They developed PHS as “Japanese government-led　technology” in 1990, and from 1995, they started developing communication experimental equipment. ABIT’s “Air Protocol Analyzer”, that captures and analyses the signal between a mobile phone base station and mobile phones, became global standard equipment. In over 18 countries with over 60 clients using the equipment regularly, this analyzer keeps evolving to match the 4th-generation telecommunication. From 2000 ABIT launched self-development of semiconductors. They succeeded in an accumulation of their cultivated PHS technologies on a chip and a large […]