2011/11/10

My first blog

This is my first time to write an article for the blog.
This is H.Y. from Sendai Factory, new employee.
I would like to write about my hobby. I have been into making plastic models for years.
As I get older, I have more opportunities to make transformable battle planes that are made based on the image of actual and imaginary person, instead of completely imaginary person. That means my taste is changing gradually.
After I started my career, I cannot spend as much time as I used to for making models, however, I would like to keep this hoppy because it is such a joy to complete a project.
It is hard to explain in words what I make, so here are the pictures of the models.
I put the oldest and the latest models.


↑Oldest model Wing Gundam

↑Latest model Macross Gundam

Both of them look unfinished... but I want to believe that I am improving my skill. Kagoshima Sendai factory H.Y.

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2011/10/05

Efforts by our Design group

We would like to introduce the efforts by our Design group.

Our Design group holds a meeting monthly to exchange information.

Usually a designer is assigned to a project and they rarely have a chance or time to exchange the information during their routine job. By having a meeting every month, they can see differences of design methods of designers and improve the efficiency of their work.

One of the main purposes of this meeting is "Cost Reduction." Based on the information such as improvements and problems from their routine job, they make efforts to select the best design method and unify the design rule, considering the machine performance, cost, lead time, etc.

Designers tend to have their own habit, and work out the way they are used to. Without realizing, with accumulation of those minor design methods, it could be a huge waste at the end. By avoiding the waste, we believe that we can reach the lead time and cost reduction.

How can we satisfy customers' demand and reduce the cost at the same time? It sounds conflicting, however, it is our eternal goal as a manufacturer.

We continue to challenge ourselves to meet this goal!
We can do it!

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2011/08/22

Visitors of my home



Since last year, we have visitors at our house without permission. I am not sure if they are the same ones or not, but we have them this year again.
It is said that houses with swallows' nests are safe and therefore should not be removed. So we left the nest from last year as is, and they had babies in the nest and raise them in the nest this year again.

When parents bring back food to their nest, babies excitingly open their mouths very big and almost fall down from the nest. When I go close to the nest, the parents try to threaten me to protect babies. I felt that swallows and human are the same in the aspect of raising babies with their heart and soul.

I am going to watch the babies until they grow and leave the nest. I hope they come back here again, babies become parents, and raise babies next year.

One complaint... I wish they clean their droppings...

Watchdog of swallows
Engineer, Sendai Factory

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2011/07/14

P-Taro's Room - How to release stress -

Hello! This is P-Taro.

Do you have a way to release stress?
I am going to introduce the way I release my stress.

1. Listening to music


First of all, make an environment to listen to music. At night, turn off
the light in the room and shut down the information from eyes so that you
can concentrate to the sound of the music (I think). It is a fact that the
music sounds better in the dark than in the light.
This is my favorite recently.

"Rain Man's Story" By Yoshichika Tarue
He is not famous, but he is a good pianist. The music is like a movie sound
truck and it has a really good atmosphere.

When you listen to music, don't half-listen as a background music. You have
to be in the musical word and forget about your daily life. If you pay
attention, you can hear phrases and instruments in the background which you
don't notice usually, and it is quite amusing.

2. Play an instrument

This is it!
Recently I have new friends.



1959 Reissue, Les Paul by Gibson, Historic collection.
Also Fender Blues Jr., Tube amp, on the right.

This is a reissue version of 1959 Les Paul. The price of the original
vintage costs 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 yen. Even though this is Reissue,
playing this guitar makes me so happy. No, just looking makes me feel
excited.

I want to remind you that I did not decide to buy this guitar by the
influence of "KEION!" (Japanese TV animation).

Now about the amp...
I heard that the tube amp makes clear your guitar touch so I changed my amp to a tube amp from a transistor amp.

My impression to the sound is...

'"Great acoustic pressure!!"
Maybe the amp that I had was too cheap?

3. Ride a motorcycle

Riding a motorcycle is different from driving a car. You can smell trees
and greens and feel the freedom.
The throb from the engine, speeding... it is great!
Because it is the rainy season now, I cannot enjoy the cruise as much as I
want. I hope to say good-bye to the rainy season soon and say hello to
summer, no... to autumn!

Everybody, let's release stress!



P-taro in Sendai factory / Electrical engineer




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2011/06/16

Our Pet Goldfish - Part 2



This is the picture that I shared in my previous blog. Yes, our pet goldfish sleeps like it is dead. When we first saw this, we were so surprised!

This time, it was sleeping on its back!!
Here is the picture that we took.

I don't know why it is sleeping like this.
It is really strange!!

We noticed that other goldfish sleep in a strange way.


Our black pop-eyed goldfish was sleeping upright.

We could not believe it!






Now we are looking forward to finding more interesting ways that the goldfish are sleeping.

We can do it!
Sun-Tec Kagoshima-Sendai factory Y.U


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2011/05/17

SID 2011 has opened !

This year the Society Information Display (SID) Exhibition is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from May 17th to May 19th.



On May 15th, our staff from Arizona and Japan arrived in LA, and we have been setting up our booth for the show. Many exhibitors that we know from the past and our customers stopped by our booth while we were getting ready to say “Have a good show!”

This year, for the first time, we will demonstrate TMS-SA-P1 which can laminate Rigid to Rigid products. For the next 3 days our real fight to win business begins. We already have scheduled many demonstrations and meetings with customers from all over the world and we are excited about it.





Our booth number is 735.

We are looking forward to many people visiting us.

We can do it!
Sun-Tec America RM

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2011/04/18

Mt.Fuji

I have been visiting one of our customers in Yamanashi Prefecture frequently since July 2010. Last time I visit there was just after the terrible earth quake and tunami happened in the north area of Japan.

And a morning, I saw the beautiful Mt. Fuji! The mountain was so beautiful and I was impressed so much that I had to stop the car and take pictures. Here is a picture!




I have never seen such a magnificent view without any clouds before !! I was so glad and thought of the disaster...

I felt a strong hope from this view..this mountain is a symbol of Japan so
I can feel and believe that our potential is very high as this mountain. We must ecover this situation even far away to get it.

We thank you for your huge support from all over the world.
We have been feeling that the world is united. Thank you very much.

We can do it!

Osaka Sales dept
YN
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2011/03/16

Listen to her song !

I would like to introduce our pet parakeet. We named her "Marron" (chestnut in French) because she came to our house in October two years ago, which is chestnuts season.



She is very good at singing. Her favorite songs are "Mickey Mouse Theme song,"and "Super Mario Theme song,"and her most favorite one is "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands."
Take a look at the video.

http://www.sun-tec.net/blog/img/110228.wmv

When she first sang that song and used her beak for clapping, nobody was watching. We could not believe what she did.
My wife taught her those songs and she usually learns each song in a week.
If she is not into a certain song, she never learns it.

Usually people start to raise parakeets as a pet when they are about 1 month old. When they are babies, they cannot digest food well so we feed them soft food with a straw. By doing so, we build a relationship with birds.
They start to perch on hands. (Marron also perches on hands.) It is relatively easy to keep a bird as a pet compared with cats and dogs and we can communicate with birds to some extent. So I recommend birds for a pet if you hesitate to have dogs or cats.

Y.K Design Dept @ HQ

We can do it!
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2011/02/03

35th anniversary of the founding of Sun-Tec

Now that I think back on the history of Sun-Tec, I am full of emotions that it was both very short and very long at the same time.

When we started our company, the economy was so bad that we thought it could not get any worse. We felt like we had nothing to lose and started the business with the strong will that we had to find a way.

At that time, we had no customer, and literally we started from zero.
However, thanks to our personal connections, we were introduced to customers, and we won their business one by one. We could gradually establish the reputation as a machine manufacturer.
The full-scale sales started when Mr. Y joined our company who is a professional sales person and got business with major electronics manufacturers. It was a huge turning point for us. That gave Sun-Tec a big confidence and good publicity.


Below is a photo from the trade show in 1979. Because we had a limited budget, when we sold a chain conveyor to our customer, we got their old conveyor. All of our employees (which is only 5 at the time) disassembled parts and rebuild the conveyor like brand new. We connected three of our laminators to the conveyor. Sun-Tec made our first appurtenance to a broader customer base.

After that, the technical development of the LCD Polarizer film laminator was a huge transition for Sun-Tec. This business has been continuing and is now the core of our sales.

It has been 35 years since we started the company. Every company is supposed to change in various elements, but I believe that the biggest elements are "People" and "People's Talent." There is a saying, "Your best
friends are honesty, sincerity and wisdom. " I strongly think that Sun-Tec
has been surrounded by such people internally and externally.

It has been proven over the course of history that we should anticipate big changes from now on. To handle those changes:
- change and evolve flexibly,
- value people's relationship and gather people's wisdom, and
- never forget the appreciations to customers and business partners.
I believe those are the keys for survival.

And do not forget our company motto, "Provide the best quality products and service to our customers so that they continue to be our fan. Think and behave from the point of our customer's view." By doing so, I hope our young generation flies high in the future inside Japan and to the world.

Apple Inc. was established at around the same time as Sun-Tec. Even though the size of the company is small, our goal is to become an "excellent company" the same as Apple Inc. I strongly hope that Sun-Tec continues to aspire to become the "excellent company" for 10, 30 years, and forever.


Y.Kanemoto

Senior director of Sun-Tec Co., Ltd

We can do it!
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2011/01/13

New year message from president

Happy New year !

Thank you for visiting SUN-TEC blog.

The first article of this year is a message from our president .

成(Achive )
Thank you very much for your support last year.
As a result, we could finish the year with no major issues.
You can never tell what will happen this year, however, our staff will do
our best and devote ourselves to achieve customer satisfaction.
We appreciate your continuous support this year.

We chose ”成” (achieve) for our character this year. I don't remember at
what point, but I have always liked this character best. This character is
one of the few characters that could be a goal in everyone's personal way.
Don't you think so?

I cannot stop thinking about a comment that I think was made by a
neurologist,
"A human brain only works to the person's goal."
I realized that I am caught up with daily matters in sight, and set up a small goal.
This year I would like to set up a bigger goal, keep encouraging myself and
go forward.

We appreciate your continuous support this year.


Thank you very much and best wishes 2011


Mitsuo Matsumoto

President Sun-Tec Co., Ltd

We can do it!
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