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News and
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Editor: Toru Nakagawa (Osaka
Gakuin Univ., Japan) |
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News and
activities for promoting and applying TRIZ in Japan are to be posted in
this page. Information and responses from readers will be posted
either in this page or in the TRIZ Forum page. (Toru Nakagawa) |
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"Collaborative
Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan"
has been set up and is preparing for holding "First TRIZ Symposium in
Japan" in coming September, 2005. (Reported by
Toru
Nakagawa) (Posted
in Japanese
on Feb. 7, 2005 ,
and in English on Feb. 22, 2005.)
For
the purpose of promoting the penetration and application of TRIZ in
Japan,
major players of TRIZ promoters and users in Japan have recently joined
to form
a collaboration group. "Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters
and
Users in Japan" was set up on Feb. 1, 2005, with the initiative by
Dr.
Toshihiro Hayashi, Hitachi Co. This collaboration group was
founded on
the basis of a voluntary group "TRIZ Konwa-kai",
which met 6 times since last March to informally discuss on the
promotion of
TRIZ. The goals of the Collaborative Board during 2005 are to
hold "First
TRIZ Symposium in Japan" in coming September and to found
(tentatively
named) "Japan TRIZ Association" in a year or so. Though
it is a small voluntary group at moment, the Collaborative Board is
expected to
grow eventually into a public organization which should play a major
role in
the promotion of TRIZ in Japan. We wish that readers in Japan and
over
the world support the Collaborative Board's activities.
(1)
Report of activities in the last year, 2004.
·
On March 30, 2004,
major players of TRIZ promotion in
Japan gathered, in response to the proposal by Toshihiro Hayashi, to
start
informal discussion on how to promote TRIZ better in Japan.
·
The
discussion group
was named "TRIZ Konwa-kai" (which
means an informal/frank discussion group) and met 5 more times on May
17, Jul.
26, Oct. 8, Nov. 26, and Dec. 28, 2004. The members gradually
formed a consensus
to cooperate together.
·
Major
players/members
are as follows (in an arbitrary order):
²
SANNO
Institute of
Management (Shinsuke Kurosawa, Manabu Sawaguchi)
²
MRI
Systems (Yukio
Miwa, Yoshihisa Konishi, Eiichi Mizuno)
²
Sozo Kaihatsu
Initiative
(Masatoshi Hotta)
²
Hitachi Co. (Toshihiro
Hayashi [Chairperson], Seiji Yonekura,
Kozo Nakahata)
²
Fuji Photo Film Co.
(Yuji Mihara
[Vice-Chairperson])
²
NISSAN Motors Co.
(Akira Mochizuki)
²
SANYO Electric Co. (Naohide Tanigawa)
²
NEC (Kiyoto Iida)
²
NITTO Electric Co.
(Osamu Maekawa)
²
Osaka Gakuin Univ.
(Toru Nakagawa)
²
Kanto Gakuin Univ.
(Haruhiko Iizuka)
(2)
"Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in
Japan" (TRIZ Kyogi-kai)
· The
"Collaborative
Board" was formed as a voluntary body of organization by inviting
several
more players/members to the Konwa-kai.
· The new
players/members
currently include:
² Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co.
(Koichi Kumagai)
² Sekisui
Engineering Co. (Kazuyasu Ikeda)
² Kawasaki
Heavy Industry Co.
(Makoto Unno)
² Fuji Xerox
Co. (Shigeru Kasuya)
² Sano &
Associates International
Patent Firm (Kimihiko Hasegawa)
² Tokyo
Metropolitan Organization of
Medical Research (Toshimitsu Kataoka)
· Toshihiro
Hayashi (Hitachi) serves
as the Chairperson, and Yuji Mihara (Fuji
Photo Film)
as the Vice Chairperson. The Collaborative Board is a voluntary
body of
organization. Members will not be tightly fixed and are not
supposed to
officially represent any organization.
· Main
activity in 2005 is to hold
"First TRIZ Symposium in Japan" in coming September. For this
purpose the Board must have a management capability.
· It is
intended to
establish the (tentatively called) "Japan TRIZ Association" in a year
or so through the discussions and preparations in and around the
"Collaborative Board".
(3)
"First TRIZ Symposium in Japan" to be
held on September 1-3, 2005 at Shuzenji, Izu.
· The
Collaborative Board is going
to hold the "First TRIZ Symposium in Japan", on the basis of the
experience of "Knowledge Creation Symposium, Shuzenji
2004" held by MRI Systems last September.
· It will be
an open
symposium without any constraint due to (potential/unseeable)
boundaries among TRIZ vendors or promoters. .
· The TRIZ
Symposium will offer
chances and places for open presentations, discussions, and
communications
among people on the subjects of promotion and application of TRIZ and
related
methodologies.
· Two and half
days from
Sept. 1st (Thu.) afternoon to Sept. 3rd (Sat.) afternoon, 2005.
Users'
presentations are very welcome.
· A resort
training facility, Laforet Shuzenji (Naka-Izu,
Shizuoka Prefecture), has been reserved already.
Communication among participants will be encouraged at the resort.
· MRI
Systems will serve as the
local organizer.
· Call for
Papers will be announced
in March. Presentations from users, vendors, and promoters are
very
welcome. We wish to make the Symposium active and fruitful!
· [Special
Note for overseas
readers: The official language is Japanese. It is not
decided yet
whether and what size of special sessions of presentations in English
to be
included.]
This
information is posted here, even though brief and not formal, in order
to ask
for your support and participation to the Collaborative Board and for
your
contribution to the TRIZ Symposium.
"Technical
Committee on 'Development & Design Process
Engineering Technologies'" is working under the "Ohkan-Rengo"
(Transdisciplinary Federation of Science
and
Technology). (Reported
by Toru Nakagawa) (Posted in Japanese on
Dec. 14, 2001 , and in
English translation on Feb. 22, 2005.)
A
Technical Committee mentioned above has been working since Feb. 2004 as
a task
force under "Ohkan-Rengo". It has met
6 times already in Tokyo. The Technical Committee is going to
hold Ohkan-Rengo's First Technical
Symposium on coming Jan. 21,
2005. Please refer the agenda of the Symposium in the Nakagawa's
Activities page in this Web site. From the Call for Participation
of the
Symposium, descriptions on "Ohkan-Rengo",
the Technical Committee, and the Symposium are extracted and summarized
below:
"Ohkan-Rengo" (i.e. "Transdisciplinary
Federation of Science and Technology") has been formed on April 7, 2004
as
a federation of 41 academic societies in Japan. Such a large
number of
academic societies have decided to collaborate together with the
intention to
develop and promote "Underlying Sciences", which may be regarded as
lateral constructs of science and technology that seem to be divided
vertically
into finer and finer sections these days. They appeal the
importance of
such trans-disciplinary "Underlying Sciences" and are going to carry
out a wide range of activities. (Refer to the Web site of "Ohkan-Rengo": http://www.trafst.jp/index.html)
As a part of Ohkan-Rengo's
activities, the Technical Committee on 'Development & Design
Process
Engineering Technologies' has been working since the beginning of this
academic
year.
The Committee intends to research a range of technical fields which may
be categorized
as "Development & Design Process Engineering Technologies" and
give an overview of the fields in a trans-disciplinary way. By
revealing
the ways of synergetic use of the component technologies, of promoting
the
R&D of necessary technologies, and of increasing the values of
component
technologies, the Technical Committee tries to serve for the further
enhancement of Japan's competence in technology and
manufacturing.
In
the Symposium to be held on Jan. 21, 2005, the issues which have been
discussed
in the Technical Committee will be presented to public and the
up-to-date case
studies and future directions of the relevant technologies will be
discussed. A wide range of technologies including various
methodologies
for Development & Design Process, simulation methods and digital
engineering will be presented through their application and
integrated-use case
studies. In the Panel Discussion we would like to discuss about
the roles
to be played by universities. For industry people who are
promoting advanced
ways of manufacturing and for university people who are trying to grow
students
into experts in these fields, the Symposium will be an important
trigger for
further discussions.
Technical
Committee on 'Development & Design Process Engineering
Technologies',
"Ohkan-Rengo",
Chairperson:
Toshihiro
Hayashi (Hitachi Co, Manufacturing Technology Division)
General Secretary: Hideo Fujimoto
(Nagoya
Institute of Technology, Professor & Director of Manufacturing
Technology
Center)
ETRIA
(European TRIZ Association): Nakagawa serves as its GCG Member
and posted
ETRIA's Official Page in Japanese. (Reported
by
Toru Nakagawa) (Posted in Japanese on Sept. 11, 2001
, and in
English translation on Feb. 22, 2005)
ETRIA
(European TRIZ Association) is a new international organization founded
for
promoting the penetration of TRIZ under international
collaboration.
Initially it was formed by members in European countries, thus having
the name
of ETRIA, but lately it accepted members from most of the countries
over the
world where TRIZ has been introduced. Receiving a request from
ETRIA,
Toru Nakagawa is serving as the Japanese Member of its Global
Coordination Group.
On a voluntary basis he is working to help communication from ETRIA to
Japan
and vice versa. Official Web page of ETRIA has been posted in
Japanese
translation in this Web site.
"Communication
Group for TRIZ Promotion in Japan" has been started. (Announced
by
Masatoshi Hotta, Yasutoshi Suzuki, and
Toru Nakagawa)
(Posted in Japanese on Aug. 23, 2001 , and in
English translation on Feb. 22, 2005)
TRIZ News
in Japan: "Communication Group for TRIZ Promotion
in Japan" has been started.
An
informal communication group has been started for discussing 'What
should we do
to promote TRIZ further and better in Japan?'.
Besides the core members of Nikkei BP (Shinohara), Mitsubishi Research
Institute (Hotta, etc.), SANNO Institute of
Management (Suzuki, etc.) and Osaka Gakuin University (Nakagawa),
several
voluntary members from user industries and consulting firms have been
joining
in this group.
We
had Meetings first on Mar. 5, 2001, and second on Jul. 2, 2001 (among
the core
members mentioned above, Nikkei BP was absent both times). We are
planning to have the Meeting every three months from now on.
The
following issues are and will be discussed:
·
Recognition of the
current status of promotion and
penetration of TRIZ in Japan.
·
What should we do to
promote and penetrate TRIZ in Japan?
·
Relationship with the
fields nearby and relevant to TRIZ
for promoting and penetrating TRIZ in Japan.
·
Relationship with
overseas organizations for promoting and
penetrating TRIZ.
·
Future of our
Communication Group.
We
wish that the Communication Group serve to prepare for an environment
where
both Users and Promoters of TRIZ in Japan can collaborate jointly for
the
promotion and penetration of TRIZ.
August
2001
Communication Group for Promoting TRIZ in Japan
Promotion Members: Masatoshi Hotta
(Mitsubishi Research Institute)
Yasutoshi Suzuki (SANNO Institute of Management)
Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin University)
Last
updated on Feb. 22, 2005.
Access point: Editor: nakagawa@utc.osaka-gu.ac.jp