Technical Info

Yoshihide Shibano

I have been in the market for ultrasonic cleaning equipment for the past 30 years.　　During that time

In Japan, the main industries for which ultrasonic cleaning equipment is sold are,

More and more, they are going overseas in search of better-paid labor,

I watched them, unable to follow them as they moved away.

The 　　ultrasonic cleaning equipment industry, like the parts industry, follows the giants.

It is not possible. We cannot continue to work with a single customer and expect to be able to sustain the company.

Workload. Difficult and requires many users.

To do so requires a lot of money, and overseas, too much risk.

I have watched the market for ultrasonic cleaning equipment in Japan shrink, and I have cultivated

The company has been transforming its business by placing its ultrasonic deburring technology, which has been the core of its sales activities. Thanks to this, deburring and cleaning equipment now accounts for 80% of the company’s sales.

Last year, I was given the opportunity to work with a subsidiary [Pleiades] in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, next to Shanghai, China.

Ltd. was established to manufacture and sell deburring and cleaning equipment mainly in Japan, China, and Thailand.

I would like to take this opportunity to explain how I have been feeling recently.

Japanese manufacturers have been moving to countries with lower labor costs. Indeed, the Philippines, Sin

GAPOR, Malaysia, Thailand, and then, like an avalanche, to China.

One of the main reasons for this shift in manufacturing is the significant reduction in labor costs.

There is no doubt that there are. Our company is one of them.

However, if we put aside the aspect of local production in conjunction with economic growth in Asia, manufacturing

We may reconsider the term “reduction of labor costs” in the following paragraphs.

Various parts industries, which are supposed to be highly automated, are also being developed in China, where labor costs are low.

Moving to Other.

Why? The impact of labor costs should be covered by the Japanese people’s precise production techniques.

Is it not?

Cover and base made of Mg alloy from a PC parts manufacturer in Kunshan, Suzhou

We received an inquiry for a deburring and cleaning system for the “M” series and were requested to visit the plant, so we went to see the system.

What I saw there were more than 200 deburring personnel on a single line. The rest were Japan’s most

The human figure is sparse in the new, state-of-the-art machine. The precision of the part of the machine that even a human cannot remove.

It was decided that we would deburr the stop holes of the tight threads. The customer enthusiastically told us how much he had been struggling with deburring and his expectations for our company.

Last week, I was invited to Beijing to visit a component manufacturer focused on cell phone production.

The number of employees is said to be 250,000 worldwide. Surprisingly, 50% of them are deburring personnel.

I was told that the number of employees in one factory I visited was One factory I visited had 1,500 people. Among them, Barrie

The number of personnel to be taken up is 80%, or about 1,200. We need your help to bring that down to 600.

He says.

It’s a huge business opportunity, but as I listened, a Japanese customer said

I was reminded of the following. That customer is an injection molding manufacturer, but they are now taking manual

We closed our factory in Tianjin after seeing the burrs that had been removed almost instantaneously from our company.

I would like to return them to Japan.

The many fine deburring equipment manufacturers in Japan are outraged.

I want you to listen to me.

In quite a few areas of Japanese manufacturing, manufacturers are located in countries with low labor costs.

A big part of the reason for the move isn’t the non-automation of deburring technology.

What is it? Precision burrs that cannot be resolved by conventional deburring methods have become a major problem.

I think you are there.

In 　China alone, there are more than 500,000 people engaged in burr removal.

In other words, the high quality of automatic deburring technology that is compatible with today’s precision processing technology.

The establishment of a global manufacturing industry is essential not only for the Japanese manufacturing industry, but also for the manufacturing industry around the world.

Or is it becoming one? Or is it becoming one?

Although deburring is important, as in the past with cleaning, the production process

Development and research have been put on the back burner because of The attention was drawn to the fact that ozone depletion is

I would say it was a shouted one moment.

The problems are everywhere, but the difficulty of solving them has put them on the back burner. The result is the relocation of manufacturing to countries with low labor costs.

I believe that we have been accelerating the

I am convinced, as I listen to the passionate expectations of our customers. in this precision processing technology.

The establishment of a deburring technology that can handle this kind of work is the only way to alleviate the curse of labor costs from the manufacturing industry.

The key to the return of many Japanese manufacturers to Japan is the return of the manufacturing industry to Japan. The key to the return of many Japanese manufacturing industries to Japan,

He said it was due to the establishment of deburring technology.

In a sense, it is fair to say that deburring technology will determine the trend of the manufacturing industry.

The Japanese manufacturing industry’s revival is due in large part to the precision deburring technology. It would be an overstatement to say that the revival of Japanese manufacturing lies in precision deburring technology.

I wonder if it is.

As I look at the sheer number of deburring personnel in China, I am struck by the fact that the deburring technology is so different from what we have in the United States.

One can’t help but think that this is the key to the recovery of Japan’s manufacturing industry.

A new era of deburring has arrived.