Tomotoshi Ishida, Dr. Eng.
Manufacturing Systems First Dept., Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Shinya Yuda
Maintenance Systems Unit, Second Dept. of Systems Research, Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Tatsuya Suzuki
Manufacturing Systems Second Dept., Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Various different human-oriented approaches are required in industrial activities. Examples from manufacturing include the need for a deep assessment of customer psychology in product planning, project management that coordinates the activities of large numbers of people, and various types of work support that make work easier and help achieve high productivity. Technologies being developed by Hitachi include technologies that help improve the ease-of-assembly and assembly reliability of products, technologies that use RFID to support cable connection work, and technologies that support improvements to working conditions through work activity measurement. Revolutionary new innovations can be anticipated from the use of technologies such as those for measuring human characteristics and analyzing the measured data.
Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
TEL: +81-45-860-2338
FAX: +81-45-860-1629
product planning, project management, productivity, assemblability, RFID
