| Provided by Hyotan Group, Hitachi City |
| Hitachi Regional Technical Support Center April, 2009 |
1.Outline In 1998 Hitachi city founded the Hitachi Regional Technical Support Center according to the Japanese Law on Temporary Measures for Activation of Specific Regional Industrial Agglomerations . Main mission of the center is to support medium and small industries of the northern Ibaraki to activate their management and industrial activities. 2. Scope of Activities (1) Support to create new industries (2) Support to start new products and to develop new technologies (3) Support to train engineers and technicians (4) Support for management and expanding sales (5) Seminars and Information for industries (6) Support to new business |
| 3. Offices and Rooms (1) Research and development rooms (2) Test and inspection rooms (3) Seminar rooms (4) CAD/CAMa rooms (5) Meeting and Information rooms (6) Conference rooms (7) Business Talk Exchange Rooms (8) Coordinator's rooms (9) General offices |
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4. Engineering Facilities CAD/CAM/CAEa systems, Three Dimension Measuring system, CNCb Image measuring device, Non-contact surface roughness measuring system, Machining center, Compound environment testing set-up under temperature-humidity-vibration conditions, Micro-focus X ray testing device, Universal testing machine, Roundness measuring system, Microscope, Pre-treatment device for micro-structure observation, Table-top universal projector, Constant temperature-humidity vessel, Testing device under cryogenic conditions, Ultra-red temperature measuring device, Electron balance, Oscilloscope, Digital multi-meter, Micro hardness tester. a : Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Machining/Computer Aided Engineering b : Computer Numerical Controlled |
| 5. Organization and Staff Members Director in general -Vice Director - Director( Center Director) - Chief officer - officers Chief coordinator - Coordinators Advisors( volunteers ) Number of acting center staff : 11, Number of advisors : 132 |
| 6. Main Projects of the Center for 2009-2012 6.1: Support for Training Improvement in production ( Monodukuri- Kaizen-Jyuku) Seminar for young business managers (Hitachi Risshi-jyuku) IT training class for companies, Basic training class for production, Machining class, 3D-CAD class, Leader training for shops,  Training at shops by advisors , Training for new employees 6.2 Competitive Shops Visiting advisors to shops Open system for production management Certification of creative industries and products for the Hitachi Region 6.3 Marketing , Presentation at Special Fair Visiting sales, Support by sales coordinators, Support for overseas business 6.4 Support for Developing New Products and New Technology Research and development for innovative activities , Strategic core technology , Technology seeds Seminars for higher products, Industry-Academy-Government Information Conferences to create new regional business 6.5 Support for business managers: Hitachi Risshi-jyuku, Visiting Overseas Industries 6.6 Support for new business:-MCO Incubation, Pilot business ,Seminar for new business 6.7 Information Retrieval and Transmission, Visiting business, Information Magazines 6.8 Communication with the region: Industry course for high school students, Workshops for kids in summer holidays, Super HITS club (Hitachi Regional Techinical Center Club) 6.9 Management of the center: Study planning for the center staff |
7. Comments and remarks fro m the Center Director for the interview(1) 300 industries out of 1000 answered to the questionnaire from the center on the projects for the tenth anniversary of the center. Some 80% of the answers gave high opinion to them. (2) Sixty industries took part in the industry fair sponsored by the center at the Ohta Technical Plaza (PiO) Ohta-ku, Tokyo. (3) Hitachi Risshi-jyuku has had high records to train young business managers. It is run as a brother seminar by business consultants who are professors of Tokyo metropolis. Actually they are students of the professors. Conversations with business managers of other areas gave them remarkable information and advices. (4) Industry-Academy-Government information conferences are helpful to know the results of forerunners, and lectures by professors are source of technology development. (5) Technical advisors , retired engineers of large industries of the region, serve for obtaining and maintenance of ISOc and Environment Qualification, and for technical advice for machining for the industries of the region. c : International Organization for Standardization |
| 8. Reporters Remarks Hitachi city has a long history as an industrial town. Now it has many retired business managers and engineers. They are valuable resources of the city. It is a key theme how they are given chances to serve the region and how they do serve. We were impressed to learn how the center raise chances for the retired personnel and how the center try to help for industries to improve for new industrial world. We hope the center will serve for the region with its high mission. The center was started by the initiative of government and Ibaraki Prefecture to revitalize the industrial region after the collapse of financial bubbles. So far activities of the center has been financed almost by Hitachi city. Funding from the results of the center might be a theme. |
| 9. Contact to: Address: Hitachi Regional Technical Support Center 2-20-1, Nishinarusawa, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 316-0032,Japan Tel: 0294-25-6121 Fax: 0294-25-6125 Homepage: http://www.hits.or.jp/ |
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