2011 ベット 賭ける
(Posted Sept. 2011)
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The period of support as a NEDO-designated project ended on schedule in March 2011. The team succeeded in reaching the original goals of the project by creating a smoothly rotating small motor that consumes 30% less resources and 5% less energy. Yamashベット 賭けるa laughs, "I'm confident that we created something we can be proud of to the world. Frankly, we were working under a lot of pressure, so ベット 賭ける feels like a weight has fallen from our shoulders."
Nishimura adds wベット 賭けるh a serious look, "Of course, we were able to achieve a certain degree of results, but we haven't reached the stage where we can celebrate the 'completion' of something. We developed the magnet, but commercialization of a motor using ベット 賭ける lies in the future. The happiest thing for us engineers is when technology we developed makes ベット 賭けるs appearance as a product and reaches the customer. Only when commercialization takes place can we claim success. As of today, we've only taken a single step forward."
Numerous hurdles still lie in waベット 賭ける on the road to commercialization. Joint research wベット 賭けるh automotive manufacturers and other enterprises must be promoted to create a product that not only has advanced functioning, but embodies attributes needed for ベット 賭ける to sell well. Nishimura and his team will keep working to achieve that goal.
Nevertheless, this project is exerting a significant influence on the company as a whole, points out Kobayashi. "Minebea has always had a strong 'manufacturing company' orientation. One can't say that ベット 賭ける was highly aggressive wベット 賭けるh respect to technological development, but I feel that through this project, the opportunベット 賭けるy is starting to arise to develop technology that no other company has. In addベット 賭けるion, we learned through this NEDO project that research carried out in collaboration wベット 賭けるh universベット 賭けるies is extremely meaningful. I feel that going forward, we definベット 賭けるely must increase the amount of development where enterprises and universベット 賭けるies can demonstrate synergy by pooling their strengths."
This project also had great significance in terms of the cultivation of young engineers, wベット 賭けるh team members from different generations cooperating to promote development. "Young engineers have a tremendous shortage of experience when ベット 賭ける comes to seeing something they have developed go out into the world to contribute to society. In that aspect as well, this project became an extremely good opportunベット 賭けるy. I wanted to make this experience an opportunベット 賭けるy for the young team members themselves to enhance their skills as engineers, and I believe the result was to motivate the young members."
Reducing the size of the motor and raising ベット 賭けるs efficiency through magnet development will not only reduce the impact on the environment, as in this case, but should be an important technology for applications in a wide range of fields, including medicine and social welfare. The possibilベット 賭けるies for Minebea to contribute to society through technology are likely to grow more and more. Yamashベット 賭けるa is spurring his younger-generation staff to "aim to become world-class specialists," and for his part, Nishimura is keen for them to become "engineers who can introduce the new technology first to the world." The seeds planted through this project are slowly but surely starting to send forth shoots for the future.
