Day 7 in Japan



Today we visit Horiba and Myoshinji Temple.



Horiba’s core technologies are about measuring solid, liquids, and gases. This company sets up in 1945. And Horiba’s product support people mainly in five different ways. Those are automotive test systems, process & environmental, medical, semiconductors and scientific. 
 
This is a very international company. Horiba does business in 27 countries around the global and about 60 percent of its employees are non-Japanese nationals. The international business segments for the company are China, Americas, and Europe. “Always keep eyes on overseas’ market.” The internationalism for this company might help Horiba have an 80 percent share of the global market.

During the visit, there are some interesting topics which I want to share in the blog.
Each floor has its own function. There is a whole level of floor is specific to be an office floor. The smaller product goods are in the upper floor and the bigger productions is on the down floor. From up to down, the production accumulates from small to big so that it is more convenience for the company to transport their finish goods outside of the company.

The company has well allocation for the work. Females are doing the work about the smaller stuff. Because the smaller hands and the carefulness are suitable to do this type of work. For the male, they are doing the work about testing. Most of them are standing next to a compute, observing and testing the data.

Company also tried to increase the communication between their employees. They have E-HAR Bar which is opened twice a week so that employees could have drink together. And they have sky atrium which is an open stairwell built at the nest location in the building. Employees could meet each other on the stairs many times during a day so that employees could have vertical communication across floors and to promote the exchange of knowledge between employees. To push the communication on the stairs, company also has a policy that employee must use stairs to go up and down the stairs. And the office on a single floor is open and without baffle between each table so that employees could seat with each other and convenience to debate and made decision quickly.

The manufacturing process which I saw during the visit tour, most part of the production is man-made especially for the stage for the core production. From the Professor Singer said, this is because Japanese think man could be more responsible than the machine.


When we visit Myoshinji Temple and get to know what a pre-monk’s daily life could be, I found lots of things is processing accurately and consistently. They have same schedule for each day. They use their own dinnerware to have lunch. The leader of the Monk asks us to put the cup and snack in the same line shipshape.

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