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Contents Title of paper Paper/Proceedings M Presentation date Novel Fluorination Reagents: IF5-pyridine-HF and BrF3-KHF2 The 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine July 2018 Defining the Researcher ④ Chemistry - Oxford 2018 Takahiro Ishihara ……20 Formation and high performance of nano oriented crystals (NOCs) of fluoropolymers The 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine July 2018 A Science Dream Created by People in elongational crystallization Chemistry - Oxford 2018 Technology and Innovation Center “point 0”—the Starting Point for Redefining Space Optimization of Resin Pellet Shape for Improving Flowability 13th World Congress on Computional Mechanics July 2018 and Location (WCCM XIII), 2nd Pan American Congress on Computional Mechanics (PANACM II)

Special Article Key Technology ④ Evaluation and Optimization of System Performance using HFO-mix Refrigerants 17th Refrigeration and Air conditioning conference akoto July 2018 Daikin’s Role as the First Step Toward Changing Society for VRF and Mini-Split Air-Conditioner at Purdue Compressor, Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Distribution in Heat Exchanger Header Using 17th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning July 2018 Interview the Key Component Determining Eulerian Multiple Flow Regimes Model Coference at Purdue Physicist, President of Air Conditioner Performance ……24 Olfactory functional magnetic resonance imaging in the human brain at 7 Tesla Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018 June 2018 Makoto Gonokami the University of Tokyo ……01 Report on the Development for the refrigerant distribution of header in a micro channel heat The 9th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and June 2018 With the Fourth Industrial Revolution Currently Underway, exchanger Air-conditioning How Are We Going to Build a Better Future Society? Daikin Information and Communications ……28 Technology College Others Special Interview Recent External Presentations ……32 Title of paper Paper/Proceedings Presentation date Douglas Weber ……04 Study on the winter cognitive temperature under various humidities in a climate SHASE Annual Meeting 2019 September 2019 CEO of Weber Workshops chamber

A Science Dream 3 + Created by People Vol.04 Measurement of N (A ) Metastable in parallel type Streamer Discharge by 2019 Annual Meeting of The Institute of September 2019 About Challenge Technology and Jan.2020 2 Σu We Live in an Era Where We Can Use the Power of Innova tion Center If you remove the letters “lle” from the word Laser-Induced Fluorescence Electrostatics Japan

Technology, Not Rationalization, to Get at the True Value Special Increasing Sensitivity to Change “challenge” it leaves “change.” Feature Demonstration Project on Automated Demand Response with Air Conditioning 2019 JSRAE Annual Conference September 2019 Daikin’s Role System and IoT technology in the Portuguese Republic The 2nd report - Interim The title of this publication reflects the change as the First Step Let’s Do Something “Exciting” that Alters Existing Toward Changing Report of the Project – which comes about through challenge, which is Society The development of refrigerant leak detection system by remote monitoring for 2019 JSRAE Annual Conference September 2019 Frameworks and Processes the aim of TIC (Technology and Innovation Interview Makoto Gonokami VRF air conditioners 1st Report : Outline of the leak detection system and its With the Fourth Industrial Revolution Currently Underway,

TIC seeks collaborative partners with whom to generate new value. How Are We Going to Build Center) and the heart of our corporate culture.For further inquiries, please contact: [email protected] Rather than Changing the World, I’d Prefer a Better Future Society? Date of publication: Jan 10, 2020 (Volume 04) Published by Technology and Innovation Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd. trial results 1-1, Nishi-Hitotsuya, Settsu, Osaka 566-8585, Japan (within Yodogawa Plant) http://www.daikin.com/about/corporate/tic/index.html Phone. +81-6-6195-7051 (switchboard) to Make Those around Me Happy ……08 Cover design: Akane Sakagawa（akanekodo） Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Flat Tube for Micro Channel Heat Exchangers 2019 JSRAE Annual Conference September 2019 in Air conditioners using R32 Masato Fujino President × Rei Kondo × Hideya Marukawa Photography: Shohee Murakawa Fairy Devices Inc. Heat environment increases implicit mental workload even if learning efficiency The 83rd Annual Convention of the Japanese September 2019

Chief editor ● Kenichi Azuma is enhanced Psychological Association G Planning and editing ● Jun Kobayashi (Technology and Innovation Influence of air leakage from building façade on the energy efficiency of air AIJ Annual Meeting 2019 September 2019 Special Feature Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd.), Tamiwa Office Co., Ltd. conditioning system in Tropic Asia Human Communication：Transmitting ……13 Writers ● Megumi Tamiwa, Ichiro Erokumae, Motoharu Yanamoto Analatical Study for the Actual Operation of Multi-Sprit Type Air Conditioners AIJ Annual Meeting 2019 September 2019 Photography ● Shohee Murakawa, Yoshiko Yoda, Ichiro Nakanishi (Part 2) Investigation of outdoor unit COP reduction factor by indoor unit analysis What will human beings aiming to send information far, Design & DTP ● Mizuta Design A Study on Environmental Control Considering Human Factor (Part 1) Influence AIJ Annual Meeting 2019 September 2019 Photography cooperation ● Aflo Co., Ltd., Photolibrary quickly, and in great volume transmit in the age of IoT? on thermal comfort and blood flow due to the difference in humidity

Printer ● Sanshodo Co., Ltd. o Acoustic analysis of oil-soluble medium Considering attenuation caused by Dynamics and Design Conference 2019(D&D2019) August 2019 presence of oil Improving the Heating Capacity of Air Conditioner by using Six-step Operation IEEJ Technical Meeting on Rotating Machinery / August 2019 with a Senorless Control for Compressors Liner Drives / Home and Consumer Appliances RSSI-based Localization of BLE-attached HVACs by Utilizing Peak Detection DICOMO Symposium July 2019 Individual difference in skin blood flow with air temperature variation IWEE2019 June 2019 nokami Invitation to Web “Challenge” Anti-microbial and Anti-biofilm effect of Underwater Electric Discharge (UED) ASM Microbe 2019 June 2019 Characterization of Thermal Conductivity and Internal Morphology of BN-filled 68th SPSJ Annual Meeting May 2019 Fluoropolymer Composites ▼Please visit our web site at: CA storage for prolonging quality of mango produced in Miyako Island, Okinawa 124th Symposium of JSTA March 2019 https://www.daikin.com/about/ Detection of sleep apnea by cyclic variation of pulse rate Life Tech 2019 March 2019 corporate/tic/magazine/ The atmosphere agent -The creation of a partner agent that can being with us HAI Symposium 2018 March 2019 throughout our life span- Preliminary Evaluation of a “heart-friendly atmosphere agent” through the Five Senses SIG Human-Computer interaction January 2019 The emergence of “heart-friendly atmosphere agent” based on multiple sensory modalities SIG Human-Computer interaction January 2019 C A Science Dream Created by People Vol.02 Technology and Sep.2 017 A S c i e n c e D r e a m C r e a t e d b y P e o p l e Fundamental study on practical application of fluid structure interaction analysis CDF 2018 December 2018 Innova tion Center Technology and ha lle Innova tion Center Vol.03 using open source CFD tool May.2018 Demand Response Program using Heat Pump System for heating and hot water JSRAE Magazine “Refrigeration” October 2018

Special Special Feature Human Knowledge Feature in the UK Manchester Daikin Undergoes Transformation ・ Please send your questions, Sleep Carving out Development of a Micro Channel Heat Exchanger for Upward Blow-off Outdoor Unit 2018 JSRAE Annual Conference September 2018 Daikin’s Future comments and feedback Demonstration Project on Automated Demand Response with Air Conditioning 2018 JSRAE Annual Conference September 2018 nge with AI and IoT MakotoSystem and IoTGonokami technology in the Portuguese Republic The 1st Report -Outline ・ We are looking for subscribers Report of the Project- TIC seeks collaborative partners with whom to generate new value. Interview Ei-ichi Negishi Date of publication: May 1, 2018 (VolumeFor 03) further inquiries, please contact: [email protected]

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will continue to occur at prefectural boundaries and the Creativity is Essential to Innovation. nation as a whole will cease to exist. Something similar We Must Understand What Being Human Means to this is occurring among nations, noticeably weakening Makoto Gonokami the power of intergovernmental organizations such as In December 2018, Daikin Industries Co., Ltd. and the the United Nations. When we are looking for a way to University of Tokyo concluded a “University Corporate overcome such a situation, the existence of universities, Relations Agreement.” for a 10-year partnership with an whose basic premise is research based on free thinking investment of approximately 10 billion yen. To effectively With the Fourth Industrial Revolution Currently Underway, protected by the Constitution, becomes vital. Free and promote this collaboration toward contributing to the How Are We Going to Build a Better Future Society? unique research in universities inspires study of future of the earth and human society, the University of phenomena of durations from an extremely long time Tokyo has established the Future Society Initiative (FSI), scale of millions of years to an extremely short one focused on integrating the “wisdom” inside the university, (instantaneous phenomenon), or on ideas for observing deepening relationships both inside and outside the phenomena at levels from the micro, to the macro, and university, and leading the way to resolving global issues. even to the level of the entire universe. Such research Meanwhile, Daikin Industries has been actively has the potential to lead the way to discovering a new pursuing industry-academia collaboration while developing path for the entire world. new technologies and service solutions that addressed the future of its air conditioner business and hurrying to Let Japan Universalize the Merits of its Unique Model, which Deviates from the World Standard! build new business models under the banner of open innovation. Through the deep agreement of the Why has Japan won so many Nobel Prizes in the 21st executives of both organizations, the recent agreement century? There are almost no other non-English speaking became a reality under the key phrase, “Making air countries that are methodically providing higher more valuable.” education using their own languages, as we do using “Making air more valuable.” cannot be achieved merely Japanese, and are also leading the world in research. It through innovations in science and technology. It must be is estimated that the literacy rate in Japan exceeded promoted together with two other factors: reforming the 70% at the end of the Edo Period when Japan was under social system and inventing an economic mechanism Two years ago, the University of Tokyo marked its 140th amount of big data, have been advancing rapidly over a policy of national seclusion. This combined with a that defines who bears the cost and in what way. year. If we divide these 140 years into two equal halves, the past several years. Now this data utilization flow is national trait that values education resulted in an Regarding the value of collaboration with the University World War II ended in the middle. The University of spreading to the various areas of society at an extremely high academic level in Japan. Then, when of Tokyo, Chairman Noriyuki Inoue of Daikin Industries Tokyo, which began as a device for building Japan as a unprecedented speed, making everything “smart.” Japan was opened to the world, it incorporated the generously stated, “10 billion yen over 10 years is not nation in the Meiji Era, played another important role in Against this backdrop, the social systems that human Western social system. While incorporating and expensive.” To move funds stagnating in society and the effort to build a peaceful and democratic nation after beings have cultivated over centuries, such as democracy learning Western culture, Japan has been creating a new operate a new economic mechanism, we must create a the war. As the University of Tokyo enters a new phase, and capitalism, are facing a kind of turning point. academic culture using and thinking in the Japanese framework for channeling funds into such a goal. I believe i.e., its third 70-year period (“UTokyo 3.0”), I feel the A typical example is SNS. Areas where the social and language, without simply switching the national that having started this impactful collaboration with world is also at a major turning point. economic systems cultivated over several hundred years language to English. I think it is this unique Japanese Daikin Industries as the first step toward changing The theme of the World Economic Forum held in Davos are not meshing well with cyberspace are becoming culture that has led to the awarding of the many recent society is extremely significant. in 2019, which I also attended, was “Globalization 4.0: more apparent. Those who are more adept at utilizing Nobel Prizes. My goal as President of the University of Tokyo is to Creating a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth the fruits of the digital revolution faster than others are The world has realized that the capital-intensive make our university a driving force behind social Industrial Revolution.” In a society in which the Fourth monopolizing information and impacting social and social approach, in which productivity is increased innovation. The capital-intensive society, in which value Industrial Revolution is linking all kinds of things via economic systems, forcing nations to redefine their using a uniform model, may have been appropriate was primarily placed on hardware and the manufacturing the Internet, the participants discussed how best to significance and roles. during the period of high economic growth, but no industry was the main player in creating value, is now build globalization. Capitalism is a model in which the world is supposed longer works. There aren’t many countries that have facing a major turning point. Because of the digital Tremendous innovations have occurred in to get better as individuals compete in a free marketplace. aimed for and succeeded in reaching high goals while revolution, the source of added value is shifting from semiconductor and electronic technologies, as well as in Although the concept itself is good, problems have taking advantage of diversity. Against this backdrop, hardware to knowledge, information, and services, and telecommunication technologies such as computers and begun to occur in the way it is being implemented. Japan’s position in the world is valuable. It can be a paradigm shift to a knowledge-intensive society is the Internet which emerged as the outgrowth of these When the market principle goes too far, only those who considered that Japan is helping the entire world be occurring. This shift has a huge potential for achieving a innovations. These innovations have created a new space obtain information first or create a platform can profit more diverse since its existence deviates from the world better future society, a sustainable and inclusive society, called cyberspace, in addition to the real space in which and as a result, redistribution of wealth ceases to function, standard. Of course, it is necessary to reform the way that is, Society 5.0. Furthermore, to realize innovations we exist, as a result completely changing the way society plunging society into an extremely stratified state. At the things are in Japan, which tends to be tribal and in science and technology, the social system, and the appears. And now these changes are accelerating even national level, protectionism becomes common, further homogeneous, and make efforts to respect diversity. I’m economic mechanism, a high level of creativity and faster. In recent years, this has often come to be called dividing the world. certain that such efforts will become even more knowledge of humanities are indispensable. That is, it the digital revolution. Various types of information If extreme decentralization occurs, i.e., if even the significant in the current world, which needs diversity. I becomes important to correctly understand the cultural/ generated in real space are digitized and continue to be roles that the national government should be playing in think we need to understand Japan’s relative position historical background, regional characteristics, etc. I stored in cyberspace. Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep the first place are transferred to local governments, from a global viewpoint so we can universalize the believe that without a deep understanding of what it learning, which effectively analyze and utilize this massive locating most of the authority at the local level, conflicts merits of Japan’s unique model. means to be human, true creativity cannot be achieved. D

2 Challenge 2020 Vol. 04 3 Special Interview professional mills. Blade maintenance requires no tools, just as with mills aimed at professionals. Cleaning can be done easily in several seconds. It is an item that lasts a lifetime that is aimed at coffee enthusiasts who want to make professional-level coffee or better, as well as Douglas Weber those who want each cup to be prepared with care. CEO of Weber Workshops Naturally, this hand-operated mill allows the grind size to be changed to accommodate everything from espresso to drip coffee. Using it along with the basemat (leather-made), sold separately, further improves the usability and balance. We Live in an Era Where We Can “Because I didn’t work with existing factories, you could say that things were difficult. But that’s precisely Use the Power of Technology, why I built the products themselves from the ground up. Even if I were to bring my ideas to factories that have Not Rationalization, to Get at the been making coffee mills for a while, they can’t do anything that doesn’t fit their preconceptions, and I don’t think I’d be able to make what I want to make. And I True Value don’t intend to teach them my new conceptions and non-patented techniques and know-how. The whole point is to discover things that others can’t, and develop It is approximately a 40-minute ride west from Fukuoka Airport on a direct train on them. Otherwise, it’s no fun.” the JR Chikuhi line. Chikuzen-Maebaru is the gateway to Itoshima City, said to be in the same location as Ito Koku, which makes an appearance in the “Gishiwajinden.” Douglas Weber It takes 30 minutes by car from the serenely calm station front. Douglas Weber’s Hails from Los Angeles in the U.S. Studied abroad at Kyoto The EG-1 v2 is said to be the best flat workshop is in a traditional village at the foot of the mountains, past rice paddies and University and Kyushu University while at Stanford University. burr-type electric coffee mill in the world. Began working at Apple in the U.S. in 2002. Involved in the It can prepare everything from espresso across several ridges. It is at the very end of a narrow uphill road. At the top of the development of the iPod, iPhone, and other devices as a product to drip coffee. Machining work is hill, just when Just as it seemed like the village had come to an end, a two-story designer and engineer. Moved to Japan to lead an Asia-based Electric entrusted to a factory that manufactures log cabin appeared that was different from the surrounding homes. There was a product design team in 2007. Went independent in 2014. Coffee precision parts for the aerospace industry. vegetable garden in place of a front yard. Just above it on first floor was the Because the ground size can be Mill controlled at the micron level and workshop, which looked like a garage overflowing with tools and machinery. maintenance can be done in mere dozens Mr. Weber is from Los Angeles in the U.S. At Apple in the U.S., he was involved in of seconds just by removing the cover the development of the iPod, iPhone, and other devices as a product designer and 500 and 1,800 RPM. It is also loved due to the few assembled using a strong magnet. engineer. In 2007, he departed for a post in Japan as the leader of an Asia-based vibrations and quiet operation made possible by the product design team. sturdy casing that undergoes CNC machining.

Marketing Does Not Make There are many factories Coffee Mills Customers manufacturing coffee mills Produced in the He set off on in this village of 60 residents, which is essentially buried around the world, but he Happy Mountains of his own in 2014, in the mountains in the westernmost part of Fukuoka, did not have any interest establishing his have attracted the attention of the global coffee industry. in working with existing Fukuoka Prefecture The HG-1 is equipped with the same are Attracting own brands, The EG-1 v2 is a flat burr-type electric coffee mill that factories to make improvements. He wanted to start 83 mm conical burr (blade) that is used in WEBER has been called the best of its kind in the world. from scratch and make what he considered to be the professional mills and that usually goes Worldwide for several hundreds of dollars. The WORKSHOPS Machining work is handled by a factory that manufactures best machine possible. Because we live in an age where blades can be aligned more accurately Attention and KAMAKIRI precision parts for the aerospace industry, and the grind there are several solutions to a single issue, rather than Hand (concentric and on the same plane) than WORKSHOP, and size can be controlled at the micron level. The cover can asking the market to find the optimum solution, one Grinder other company’s professional mills. Blade maintenance requires no tools, just as beginning to manufacture and sell coffee-related products. be removed without any tools as it is held with a strong must pose the solution one believes in to the market. with mills aimed at professionals, and “I’ve known about this village since about 20 years ago. magnet, allowing maintenance to be completed in just Mr. Weber is convinced that “marketing does not make cleaning can be done easily in several I was studying abroad for a year at Kyushu University, seconds. Its ability to handle everything from espresso customers happy.” seconds by detaching the individual parts. and someone here with a kiln for pottery let me use it as to drip coffee is due to the ability to accurately control The HG-1 Hand Grinder is equipped with the same I pleased. He was like a father to me in Japan. I bought the mill using the dial-type graduations. Additionally, no 83 mm conical burr (blade) that is used in professional some land about seven years ago, but at the time, it was grounds are left behind in the machine, so this single mills and that usually goes for several hundreds of all bamboo groves. I started by leveling the land, and grinder can mill both blends of beans and single-type dollars, but through Mr. Weber’s original precise design, the house was built about two years ago.” original coffee beans. The rotation speed can be the blades can be aligned more accurately (concentric The cutting-edge coffee mills that Mr. Weber is crafting changed as well, and it can be freely adjusted between and on the same plane) than other company’s

4 Challenge 2020 Vol. 04 5 Losing Sight of Using it along with the “If you don’t go to the source and see things with your “What I’m most focused leather-made basemat, sold on now is an espresso Actually, the coffee own eyes, as well as feel and communicate, then the the Essence of separately, significantly machine. But I don’t Manufacturing machine industry has improves the usability and other side won’t trust you and you can’t do business.” think just developing an been stagnant for the balance. The development of the fingerprint-resistant display espresso machine will Through Inertia lead to anything, so I am past 50 or 60 years, with technology being used now, as well as others, came working with a no major developments. about in this fashion. cooperative in Taiwan “The industry itself is satisfied with that, or it has come and creating a production line. There to accept that this is how things are,” says Mr. Weber. living there. His closest friend was Japanese, and that I Want to Create are safety checks and Coffee brewers, known as baristas, have garnered friend’s mother taught him Japanese. Even after his Things I Can Love After working as cost-effectiveness to more attention, and the coffee industry seems to have friend’s family went back to Japan, he remained strongly a product designer consider, among other for a Lifetime, things.” been revitalized. However, the machinery has not kept up. interested in Japan and studied abroad in Kyoto during Not Something and engineer for And to make matters worse, people around the world his third year at Stanford University. After graduating, about five years, are not aware of this fact. “Blades are the core of a mill. he was offered a position at Apple in the U.S., but he I Discard After Mr. Weber’s It’s not that there are no precisely crafted blades, but wanted to study more before going out into society, so Several Years feelings for Japan rather that the machines that operate them and the he studied abroad at Kyushu University. This is when he were reignited. motors they’re equipped with are of really sloppy quality. developed a passion for ceramics. “I wanted to work in Japan again.” Even if you create high-performance products with In 2002, he came back to the U.S. and got in touch To make this a reality, Mr. Weber pitched a proposal to Special Interview high-performance machines, there could be problems with Apple, who offered him a job. his company that involved him “going to the with the die casts that mold the product during mass “But at the time, Apple was in a severe slump.” manufacturing giant of Japan, discovering the technologies production, or the inclusion of highly imprecise parts.” Its stock price was hovering around the one-dollar mark. hidden in its small- and mid-sized companies, and “Things might look like they’re going fast to those Fine adjustments cannot be reproduced, coffee grinds But to Douglas, this very situation meant that he “could applying them to the development of Apple products.” around me, but I only have two hands, so I’ve been relying stick to the insides, and the amount put in is not the do whatever he wanted.” Just as he thought, he was Behind these words was the confidence that he was “the on help from a variety of people. But we can’t keep up.” amount that comes out. Cleaning is not possible, either. selected to be one of the initial members of the “iPod only one who could discuss technology in Japanese.” So he has increased his staff and is rushing about so “There are so many problems. I want to prove to nano” team soon after joining. From the design to Yet even as he learned the core principles of that he can make a variety of efforts a reality. His office everyone that if there were better tools, there is so much material selection, they spent their days trying to figure manufacturing and was inspired by the power of design, has relocated two times, too. All of the machinery was more that could be done.” out what kind of assembly would allow them to make doubts about Apple began to form inside of Mr. Weber. moved to the new office. So what is it that people at manufacturers have lost the mobile audio device thinner. When the iPhone was launched in 2007, the scale of the “The current location is about two minutes from the sight of? “What I learned at Apple was not to simply imitate company became too large, and it no longer looked like ocean, and it’s about 1,000 m2. The surrounding scenery “They haven’t just lost sight of their objective, they conventional thought or techniques, but to research the the company into which he had poured his passion. The is really beautiful, too. Not to mention it looks cool.” are not even aware of their own inertia. To compare to a necessary materials and technologies throughout the stock price increased a hundredfold. At Chinese factories, We currently live in an age where the development of boiler, they are convinced that boilers are something world and learn what the best form of that concept piles of smartphones from several years ago are being machinery and materials has made it possible to get like this and how they can change it through would be. Once you have that, you can start exploring discarded as if they were never needed in the first place. closer to the true value. manufacturing. They never stop and ask themselves what specific plans for making practical applications. These “I felt adamantly that I wanted to direct my passion “I think what I’m trying to do is to figure out what the essential purpose of a boiler is. Even if someone feels were the fundamentals of manufacturing.” toward making a product that can be used for a lifetime, technology has value and to get to the true essential this way, that person is just one individual in a large For materials and processing methods, they would look not something that is obsolete after a few years.” core of the machine design. I’m not doing this because company, so they can’t make an impact. They end up at exhibitions, catalogs, and other resources and call all Then came 2014. Mr. Weber went independent and of costs or rationalization, but to try to get closer to the thinking there’s no way to overcome the inertia.” the companies that interested them. And instead of built his present business. He has always loved coffee, ideal form. I’m trying to push things to their limits.” Mr. Weber was raised in the Los Angeles suburbs in sending e-mails, they would actually visit those factories and one of his hobbies was buying coffee devices, With the arrival of his second child, his private life has the 1980s, and there were many Japanese expat families that they thought had just what they needed. disassembling them, and then modifying them. become increasingly fulfilling. Mr. Weber is pushing the “I decided to create the coffee tools that I myself boundaries of the times in a small village in Fukuoka, wanted, but that the world could not provide.” his sights fixed on the very core of manufacturing. D Mr. Weber asked a like-minded friend in Los Angeles “No matter how good the ingredients He has designed not only coffee mills, but are, you can’t make a delicious meal also original coffee accessories that match at the time to assist with sales, and he began tackling KAMAKIRI COFFEE opened on the first floor with a rusty kitchen knife. The same his own ideals. This cellar, which suppresses design and development around the clock. of Toei Hotel in Yakuin, Fukuoka City. It is a goes for coffee,” says Mr. Weber. For the oxidation of the coffee beans and allows When he began selling his products online in 2016, Another favorite of coffee lovers. A second store is The mills, the blades are key. He has always you to measure the amount for each cup, now open in Hirano Station also. The two been a “super” coffee lover, and one of features an embedded silicon valve in the lid enthusiasts were enamored with the never-before-seen Treasure Blades Accessories children Douglas has with his Paris-raised his hobbies was buying coffee devices, that expels oxygen using the carbon dioxide quality performance and beautiful functionality, and French/Japanese wife are his treasures, too. are Key disassembling them, and then modifying emitted by the freshly roasted beans. orders poured in around the world for both the hand them. “I wanted to create the coffee Putting in a cup’s worth of beans allows tools that I myself wanted, but that the them to be stored without coming into grinder, which costs over 1,000 dollars, and the electric world could not provide.” contact with oxygen, then ground in a mill. type, which costs approximately 3,500 dollars. In February, he opened a cafe in Yakuin, Fukuoka City, so that people could see and feel the products for themselves. A second cafe is currently in the works. Compared to his dream, he feels he’s moving at a somewhat slow pace.

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Let’s Do Something “Exciting” that Alters Existing Frameworks and Processes met someone interesting,” and in our jobs. New technologies are introduced us. created, and existing structures On May 1, 2018, I was appointed change as a result. Rather than Changing the to be an intermediary and work When technologies are invented, for the University of Tokyo. Before they even change the governmental Masato Fujino World, I’d Prefer to Make Those that, I was a rather inflexible structures and systems that President engineer who worked on electrical dictate how a country ought to Fairy Devices Inc. systems such as inverters and be. We are trying to do something Masato Fujino was born in 1981. In 2005, he graduated from the Graduate around Me Happy motors. So, I had no idea what similar at the moment. Just as School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, sort of culture prevailed at venture Fairy Devices Inc. is a venture company with links to the University of Tokyo. Collaborating with computers and tablets have led to Faculty of Agriculture, The University companies, nor what sort of the generation of new structures, of Tokyo; in 2007, he dropped out of the the company’s president, Masato Fujino, are Rei Kondo and Hideya Marukawa of the Technology University of Tokyo Medical Science people worked there. Mr. Fujino so we want to create similarly Graduate Program. The same year, and Innovation Strategy Office. But what is it that the three of them are trying to change? was the first venture company exciting structures. Fujino established Fairy Devices Inc., president with links to the based on the concept of “developing Teams Require Motivation technologies that help and provide University of Tokyo that I had and Goals warmth to the people that use them.” encountered. This was why I simply said: “I don’t understand Marukawa: I joined Daikin two anything about start-up culture years ago. Previously, I had —so, I would like you to become worked at a venture company that my friend.” specialized in drones. Since I was F: It is said that one of the new to Daikin, I had no particular weaknesses of Japanese venture constraints; I increasingly spoke companies is that they lack to many different people, crossing horizontal connections. And, in internal divides. Rei Kondo fact, I frequently go to various K: Our technology—the “T” in Manager venture gatherings, but they aren’t “TIC”—is strong, isn’t it. What is Technology and Innovation Strategy particularly exciting. I and the essential is the “I”—innovation. Office Technology and Innovation Center From right: President people around me were just Innovation has to include Rei Kondo was born in 1983. In 2008, Masato Fujino, starting to discuss whether we encounters with lots of different he completed a master’s course, then Manager Rei Kondo, joined Daikin later the same year. After and Hideya Marukawa. couldn’t do something exciting at people, otherwise it’s not exciting. joining Daikin, Kondo was responsible Discussions were held these gatherings—and then it These many encounters lead to for research and development related to at Daikin Head Office was like: “A major corporation, changes in the way we think, the electromagnetic noise in inverter air at the end of August. Daikin, has initiated contact— scope of our technologies, and conditioners, radiation of electrical components, and measures to counter everyone assemble!” increase our skillsets. motor vibrations. He has worked at The at Daikin. The concept behind they will be used in—otherwise K: Mr. Fujino invited about four Mr. Marukawa has exceeded University of Tokyo since 2018. Through this Collaboration Mr. Fujino’s device is to massively they won’t be of much benefit. other venture company presidents, internal divisions and accelerated with Daikin, I Want to Benefit the End Customer enhance both communication K: Daikin is a manufacturer of we all met at an office, and such changes. links that exceed generational air conditioning systems. Looking raised a toast with convenience M: If I want to hear from sales, I Azuma: You are planning to boundaries, as well as links that at our services as a whole, we store-bought alcohol! just go and speak to them. If release a new device in exceed national and cultural have a huge amount of contact A: You have used the word there are many people working in November, 2019 —what is it? divisions. with our customers. We are also “exciting” on numerous occasions. development, I make every effort Fujino: Our basic policy is to let At Daikin, we are collaborating active globally. Mr. Fujino, what do you mean by to find out what sort of people are people do what people are good on ideas that make use of this “exciting”? in charge of. As I connected with Changing Rules and Processes at, and let AI do what AI is good device. Completely is “Exciting” F: It’s relatively clear. By the corporate planning person at Hideya Marukawa at. The device is designed around A: Mr. Fujino, why did you “exciting,” I mean something that head office, they introduced me Technology and Innovation Strategy the issue: how can we link AI choose to work with Daikin? A: Mr. Fujino and Mr. Kondo, am fundamentally changes existing to the key players in various Office Technology and Innovation Center and people together? However, F: My company is engaged in the I correct in thinking you first met structures, rules, or processes. departments. Hideya Marukawa was born in 1984. In since we are just before the creation of software and cloud at the end of June 2018? Making small improvements F: A short while ago, even a single 2009, he joined OMRON Corporation. launch, I’m afraid there are systems, and so it is difficult for F: Yes. We met at Daikin’s Head doesn’t particularly interest me. person could have a significant In 2013, Marukawa helped establish and became one of the original members of things that we cannot discuss in our products to be recognized by Office. Mr. Kondo initially K: The same goes for me. impact on an entire corporation. DJI Japan—the Japanese branch of DJI, detail. end customers without external suggested that we become friends! F: Personally, I mean things like Now, however, information travels which boasts the world’s leading share Kondo: I would like to talk a little help. In principle, however, when K: Yes, that’s right. Yuji Yoneda, when the computer was invented, in all directions. We are living in an of the drone market. Marukawa joined Daikin in 2017, where he both works about the goals of the collaboration designing our products, we ought General Manager of the Technology or when tablets like the iPad age when an idea you have come with venture companies and promotes between Mr. Fujino and ourselves to consider what type of scenarios and Innovation Center, said “I’ve were created and came to be used up with yourself has also been the use of drones.

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thought of by 100 different people core ideas typically originate billion yen. Because of the world worldwide. In such a world, it from the U.S. So, in a sense, this we live in, the presence of this becomes extremely difficult for represents a risk for my company. sixth person might lead to the one person to create big impact on However, when it comes to survival of the company, while their own. This is precisely why it motivation and goals, I am his or her absence might mean is necessary to meet various extremely grateful that Daikin are the company is doomed. If you people, find out about their working together with me—it is think like this, then the moment specialties and listen to their at once exciting and marvelous. you meet such a person is just ideas, and use this to foment incredibly joyful. On the other The Best Part of Being a Venture thoughts in your own head. Company is Meeting People hand, if the same person says Information that has been that they don’t like the company Perhaps because the three are all of a similar age—in their thirties, the round-table discussion was full of laughter and Googled is merely received M: This might be the third point: and are leaving, it’s incredibly proceeded from start to finish in a harmonious atmosphere. passively; however, meeting at Daikin we don’t pride ourselves sad. I think this is the reason someone and speaking to them on inspiring something new or entrepreneurs naturally feel that leads to the discovery of new ushering in a new age; instead, “everyone else’s happiness is my company, you don’t often talk K: The team is an assembly of companies work. If each member ideas. I wonder why that is. This we want to develop technologies happiness.” about things in that way. Outside people who want to take part, is talented, then it is enough to is similar to the Japanese phrase, that enable people to have fun. K: For example, the late Chief the company, however, people who and who want to do something say “our corporate culture is like “exposing oneself to information.” K: Yes, we simply want to see Engineer Kazunobu Ohyama want to create an impact, and exciting. So, despite being loose, this” and simply carry out Talking to someone stimulates people happy. said: “If we could increase the who want to do something exciting the connections are also strong. cultural management and task you in a way that simply Googling F: If what we do can benefit others, efficiency of the world’s motors —these sorts of people frequently F: That is to say, the people taking management; in such a scenario, information does not. that is what makes me happiest. by one percent, then we would be talk about making users happy. part have a powerful motivation. there is no need to manage the All the members of our team M: I previously worked on able to eliminate one nuclear Can anyone take part? actions of the individual members. K: An Online, Virtual A: who have interacted with Mr. technologies to reduce development power plant.” For me, this is a Department: “Aventures” K: Yes. When action management Fujino appear to be energized. man-hours. My main motivation visionary mindset—he is not A: Even engineers? becomes necessary, then the A: Why is this, I wonder. was simply to enable my simply saying that electricity A: By the way, Mr. Kondo, what K: Of course. I was formerly an company starts to resemble a K: When people come into contact colleagues to go home with smiles costs would be reduced; he is is Aventures? engineer as well, remember! If major corporation—it becomes a with something that appears as if on their faces. expressing the outcome in terms K: What? That’s rather sudden! there is something you want to mini-major corporation. This sort it might inspire societal change, F: This might be a discussion of its impact on society. An We’re building a team to share do, you can do it. Compared to of phenomenon occurs when a or have a massive impact, they that is rooted in desire. If I am alternative view might be: if we information over the internet, and me, most engineers are probably company grows in size to almost want to be a part of it as well. asked, “what is the best part of could increase energy efficiency, we’ve named it “Aventures”—it’s extremely serious. I am not lying 100 people. In fact, some of the Instead of feeling they have been starting a venture company?” then large numbers of people a cross between the movie title, when I say, these are people who venture companies I know are forced to do something, they want then my response would be, could reap the benefits of The Avengers, and “venture.” The don’t even think about bragging. like this. to do it of their own free will. “meeting people.” And the worst electricity in regions where there team has now grown to about 50 So, they can’t say what they truly A: I personally think that letting And then they start to see the part? Having to part from them. are shortages. This is the kind of people. want to do. In actual fact, though, members indulge in their dreams, changes that might take place in Let us say that there is an thinking that sets such people M: The team is not just made up they are undoubtedly good at and allowing them to do things a more concrete form. organization with five people, and apart—they envisage potential of TIC employees, but members pursuing their dreams and ideals. because they want to do them, will A: If you think that something is a sixth person joins who is an changes in society, then work from a wide variety of departments result in the company changing. Repeatedly Calculating How exciting, your motivation absolute genius. In such a towards realizing them. such as sales, corporate planning, Of course, there were some Much Happiness an Idea M: increases. You can visualize the scenario, a company with sales of A: So, the idea of doing something and business strategy. The team Will Result in, then Taking people who complained about the goal, and that allows you to 100 million yen might, as a result to make users happy is important is beginning to gather information the First Step company immediately after understand its value. of this single person’s efforts, even at a major corporation? in a way that would be beyond joining. After taking part in F: If you get used to working with increase its revenues to one K: Yes. When you work at a big the scope of a single person. A: Am I right in thinking that Aventures and starting to work in those two elements—motivation K: We’re sharing the information Aventures has the potential to the way they want, these same and goals—then you acquire the virtually, so location is irrelevant. change Daikin? people now say: “Recently, I’ve power to move things forward by Something that was discussed in K: Yes. However, while I think it really started to like Daikin.” yourself. What I am currently Tokyo gets put online, then we would be nice if to have more F: I’d like to pick up on something working on together with Daikin get a response from Osaka—this friends, my goal in participating Mr. Marukawa said earlier: is a concept that has yet to be seen is the sort of thing that takes is not to change the company. My wanting to help the colleagues in this world—it is a device that President Masato Fujino’s goal place in real time. past experiences have taught me around you go home on time, and is to “develop technologies These are online connections that when you try and change has yet to be seen. I personally that help and provide warmth A: wanting to change your believe that, in the world of AI and to the people that use them.” that exceed departmental something, almost without surroundings—these are things IoT devices, this is something that He is engaged in research into boundaries. exception you run into problems. that motivate me. I think that the voice recognition technologies, will not be on the periphery but software such as mimi®, and F: Yes. What’s more, these are F: The way Aventures works is closer you are to the people or will be at its core. Unprecedented, hardware such as Fairy I/O®. loose, horizontal connections. identical to the way venture things you are trying to help, the

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more motivated you become. becomes: “Is this of sufficient value progressed have far exceeded K: Because it’s something that’s for you to spend your time on?” what Daikin initially imagined or close to you, you can see that it is K: The minimum value was 300 expected. In a sense, every aspect Human Communication real. If the world then changes of billion yen, I think? of the project has been torn its own accord, then so much the F: I’m talking about everything down, and it has taken off on a better! going 120 percent according to different trajectory. F: But it’s worth noting that we plan. If everything goes 120 M: You’re right. Aventures is full take the first step anticipating percent according to plan, then I of members who take part that we will have some impact on think 300 billion yen is an voluntarily. Transmitting society. appropriate sum. After all, there F: And this is what makes it so Something I often say to my is no way that everything will go exciting. juniors is: “Suppose your plans 120 percent smoothly. I repeatedly K: Even though the members are What will human beings aiming to send progress 120 percent as you want make calculations regarding how all participating because they them to—what sort of impact much happiness my ideas will want to, things don’t go well information far, quickly, and in great would they have?” If they then result in—that is to say, “I’m glad when they wait for instructions. volume transmit in the age of IoT? reply, “If successful, the plans I could make this change, it has So, what’s important is that they will result in annual revenues of a made everyone happier.” And do the things they want to do. It’s billion yen,” then the question this is the reason I say the same the people who have something they really want to do who manage to create something. F: This might mean: instead of being an employee who is used by their company, be an employee President Fujino who uses their company. Of course, commented: “What I place particular value this is the very definition of on is excitement— “easier said than done!” enjoying my work more than anyone else. I M: Ensure the company keep saying: ‘Let’s do acknowledges what it is you want something new; let’s do to do. But in order to make this something that has completely different happen, you have to devise a wide values to what has range of strategies. gone before.’” K: On the other hand, this is something that Daikin can do, thing to my juniors—it serves as truly wants to inspire innovation since it is a Japanese company a warning for myself as well. is abundantly clear. with a powerful global reach. In a K: I believe that the reason I am sense, Daikin can do things that Using the Company, Instead of able to meet and speak with the venture companies cannot. The Being Used by the Company— a New Way of Working presidents of various venture company is letting me do this at companies is because I have the the best possible time, so I am F: Daikin is actively engaged in support of Daikin Industries. truly grateful. D A Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by Johannes Vermeer (National Gallery of Ireland) open innovation—everyone I meet F: Yes, that’s correct. That’s says this. I truly believe this to be because, within the company’s Human beings, who started communicating through facial expression for “Symposium” the case, and this is something overall mission, Daikin gives Reporter and language, began to aim for farther and faster communication. that I haven’t encountered before, individual employees a certain Kenichi Azuma Communication volume, which had depended on means, such as even among my customers. Even amount of discretion in their Chief Editor of Challenge shouting, fire signals, and drawings, increased dramatically with the Technology and Innovation Center at companies that engage in work. The question of how various invention of written systems and paper. The postal system was established, and the distribution system spread corporate venture capital issues ought to be resolved is AI is by no means around the world. initiatives, it is rare to find entrusted to individual employees. a magic wand. After the Industrial Revolution, the telephone system, which someone like Mr. Kondo—who This is why individuality However, if we want to increase bidirectionally transmits information on a real-time basis over space has actively met well over 100 abounds at Daikin and, in fact, our creativity, I and time, became widespread, completely transforming our lifestyle. companies—in a major corporation. this is what makes you, Mr. Kondo, firmly believe it is Finally, the Internet has entered the stage. Information now flies And Daikin is not doing this out unique as well. This is nothing a powerful tool that instantly across the earth. of a sense of corporate social more than a personal prediction, must be used to the In the current advanced information-oriented society, we are asking the full. responsibility—the fact that it but I believe the way things have question, how should means of information transmission be best utilized.

12 Challenge 2020 Vol. 04 13 Special Feature Human Communication: Transmitting Ancient communication method “Egyptian courier” (Postal Museum Japan)

Conveying and Transmitting Information Communities were Born and Transmitting Information Quickly and Accurately Became Important Human Beings Invented Languages and Created Writing Systems from Pictures

Wall paintings from the Upper Paleolithic Period (50,000-10,000 years ago) show The origin of transmission as that human beings of that time Fire Signals Appeared communication can be traced communicated using pictures. Later, the even in the Mythology of pictures changed into written symbols. back to the birth of the human Messenger on a post horse by Senseki Nakamura (Postal Museum Japan) Ancient Greece The best example of an ancient written History of Information Communication Means in Japan race. It is presumed that system is the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Australopithecus, an early The oldest information Fire signals were also used in ancient Japan for long-distance communication. hominin species born in Africa transmission method is the human Some archeological remains indicate that fire signals were already being used in the Yayoi Period. When travel to and from the mainland of China increased, approximately 4 million years ago, voice, used in such ways as said that the news of the fall of approximately 550 km away. letters and personal communications were delivered using ships and horses. The also communicated with each shouting and whistling into the Troy crossed the Aegean Sea If the Trojan War was not a communication infrastructure in Japan at that time included a station system using other, enabling them to hunt in a distance. It is said that in ancient through a prearranged fire signal fictitious event, it hints at the post horses, which became fully established following the Taika Reform. In the Kamakura Period, Rokuhara Express Messengers rode post horses between Kyoto group. From communication using Persia, people conveyed relay, reaching the Mycenaean possibility that fire signals had and Kamakura to deliver documents (see the painting above). facial expressions and gestures, information through loud Palace in Greece, which was become advanced and languages were eventually born, messaging relays, a technique that systematized by around the 13th dramatically increasing the was passed onto the workers century BCE, having become as possible. However, since the written systems and messengers volume of information that could building the Royal Road for King established as the most advanced volume of information that could who carried and delivered them, be transmitted. Darius I of the Achaemenid Persian human communication technology be transmitted in this way was ancient centralized governments In this issue, we will discuss Empire in the 5th century BCE. of that time. extremely limited, humans went succeeded in quickly collecting the history of information The king knew that the lifelines for Later, this vision-based on to invent languages, drawings, information within their transmission technologies. controlling the vast empire were information transmission and letters in order to transmit territories, solving problems, and fast transportation, communication, technology was succeeded by the more accurate information more governing their nations. and information transmission. semaphore communication precisely. Since written systems It was in the 17th century that The city of Troy (the network, which was considered could be preserved, information the general public began to enjoy northwestern area of present-day important by Napoleon Bonaparte. could then transcend time and the benefits of postal service. Turkey) was the setting of the The semaphore communication space. It became possible to Letters figured prominently in the Trojan War described in the Iliad network was developed in the access written detailed paintings of Vermeer, a Dutch and Odyssey heroic epic poems 18th century during the French information any time anywhere. Golden Age artist, but document- by Homer, said to have lived Revolution and can be considered It is estimated that the based communication, previously around the 6th century BCE. It is a mechanical hand flag signal Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian monopolized by royalty and titled Semaphore Developed system. It connected the various prototype-cuneiform, and Cretan nobility, churches, and wealthy in France and locations inside France for 60 hieroglyphs, which had evolved merchants, became a medium for Route of the Fire Signals that Transmitted the Considered Important years, at a speed at least three from symbols, were being written the masses when fixed prices News of Victory in Troy (13th century BCE) also by Napoleon times faster than the speed of and read as early as 3,000 BCE or were set and the modern postal sound, until the advent of even earlier. By utilizing these system was established. Mt. Athos Mt.Hermaeus The best-known visual Fire Signals Transmitted the Troy communication method is the telegraphic communication. Outcome of the Trojan War Mt.Ida fire signal, but its highest form is probably the “semaphore” Invention of Written According to the Cultural History of system devised in France. This Mt.Messapion Makistos Plateau Information and Communication by Sadao visual signaling system involved Systems Allowed More Chitaeron Hoshina (Hosei University Press), in the Aegiplanctos manipulating three pivoted indicator Accurate Transmission Get the information as soon as possible. Oresteian Trilogy of Greek tragedies about Mycenae Arachnaeus arms, installed on the tip of a the Trojan War written by Aeschylus, the Aegean Sea post erected on top of a tower, to Fire signals were created The window of opportunity is small. news of the fall of Troy was presumably communicate with distant locations. through the ingenuity of human transmitted through a fire signal relay over By the 19th century, the semaphore several mountains and plateaus, reaching system linked the entire country. beings who wanted to transmit Latin proverb Source: Cultural History of Information and Communication Mycenae overnight. by Sadao Hoshina (Hosei University Press), information as quickly and as far

14 Challenge 2020 Vol. 04 15 Special Feature Human Communication: Transmitting

Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell (Postal Museum Japan) means that initially used the In the Past, Air Conditioners telephone line. At this point, Only Transmitted Information World’s First Telegraphed Words advances in communication in One Direction “What hath God wrought?” technologies have drastically Information transmission in air conditioners The first words Morse (pictured here) increased the speed and volume started with internal communication (between sent were “What hath God wrought?” of information that can be sent, the indoor unit and the outdoor unit) and Pictured on the right is the telegraph information communication with the indoor Morse invented. The telegraph made by and video chat technology has unit (such as running/stopping the unit and Shozan Sakuma of Matsushiro Domain developed that can simultaneously changing the temperature setting using a in 1849 is considered the first in Japan. send voice and video. Space and remote controller). Pictured on the right is an inverter air conditioner for home time can now be transcended use, equipped with the remote controller Advent of the almost completely. “Tobicon.” Before long, the communication mode progressed to a centralized one in Telephone, the Ultimate Finally, the age of IoT, in which Can be stored in the indoor unit. Communication Means which a single remote controller controlled Morse telegraph (Postal Museum Japan) everything is always connected multiple air conditioners. Two years after Bell invented the via the Internet, has arrived. telephone, a telephone service began Beginning 25 years ago, Daikin in New Haven, Connecticut. Before has been building a framework Information-Transmission Means that long, telephone service became highly appreciated in farming regions where called the “Airnet” service system, the information volume and Through this connection, what houses were far apart from each other. Transcend Time and Space which directly links Daikin with communication speed of this information is the Airnet In the beginning, the telephone was primarily used as an emergency end users. Over the past 25 years, service. Now, end users are exchanging and what new values From telegraphy to the Internet communication means, just as we have exponentially increased connected via the Internet. is it trying to create? telegraph had been. Communication Revolution The Airnet service system Changed the Human Lifestyle u p marked the arrival of the era m of network communication. o o However, unlike the telegraph, Information Transmission System in Air Conditioners Z the telephone leaves no record. Failure Prediction: Example of Item Monitored for In the past, the speed for Morse Code, which encodes text For this reason, when it was first Airnet Service System, which Maintains Predicting the Failure of Outdoor Units carrying records and information characters as standardized invented, the telephone was Air Conditioner Operation at Optimum depended on the physical speed sequences of dots and dashes, considered inferior to the telegraph. Levels, Saving Energy and Extending A Equipment abnormality at which a human could run or a was adopted. Then, in 1895, And yet, once a telephone Equipment Service Life vehicle could travel. No substantial Guglielmo Marconi of Italy network was established to a Launched in 1994, the Airnet service system is Daikin’s Communicated changes took place in the time succeeded in a radio certain degree, reaching even proprietary remote control system, which uses the telephone between ancient Egyptian telecommunication experiment. ordinary homes, this interactive line to control multi-split type air conditioning systems for buildings. The service center remotely monitors the operating Airnet Control Center messengers and letter-carrying This was followed by the communication tool dramatically Local Controller (LC) status of the air conditioners around the clock. Should a unit postal ships. It can be said that invention of the telephone. changed people’s lifestyle. fail, a service engineer is dispatched to arrive at the problem no revolutionary innovations Alexander Graham Bell, site within two hours (only in Japan), twenty-four hours a Emergence of the Internet day and seven days a week. This service has been greatly occurred for a long time in the originally from Scotland, in The LC sorts, edits, and What will be Transmitted appreciated by many customers. sends data to the Airnet field of information transmission March 1876 spoke the sentence, DAIKIN have been dramatically improving this service Control Center’s host in the Age of IoT? computer once a day as technology. “Mr. Watson—Come here—I want by increasing the number of connection destinations and the regularly reported data. volume of information that can be communicated. In addition, (The LC is locally installed.) to see you” over the telephone to The Internet was developed in Birth of the Telegraph DAIKIN has been enhancing its communication functions, his assistant. the 1960s as a communication moving from single-unit operation control to linked control, A service engineer Modernized Information arrives at the site and even to status monitoring and failure prediction. within two hours Transmission Means Based on the received of the abnormality B occurrence (only in Indoor unit data, a decision is JAPAN). Against this backdrop, the made to inspect or The Internet is Born, ❶ repair the equipment. advent of the telegraph marked a Drastically Changing breakthrough in information Cultures and Businesses Outdoor unit The Airnet service system analyzes a massive amount of transmission technology. Samuel ❸ data collected over approximately 25 years. It detects The origin of the Internet is ❷ minor problems early and repairs them, and also predicts Morse of the U.S. constructed an generally considered to be the failures. This reduces the risk of serious breakdowns that approximately 60-km telegraph ARPANET (pictured on the right), can be costly to repair. Furthermore, even when failure line between Washington D.C. a packet-switched computer prediction or repair is not needed, the system suggests communications network that linked ❶ Dirty heat exchanger preventive maintenance and operation improvements and Baltimore, and in May 1844 four research institutions in the ❷ Dirty air filter ❹ according to the method that best suits user needs based started a telecommunication U.S., beginning in 1969. When the ❸ Malfunctioning fan ❺ on actual equipment operation data obtained through business utilizing electricity and Internet became widespread among ❹ Malfunctioning compressor remote monitoring, rather than simply based on the the general public in the 1990s, it ❺ Dirty heat exchanger number of years the equipment has been in service. magnetism. caused a telecommunication For telecommunication, the revolution, just as the telephone had. *These prediction items represent typical examples.

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Cloud System Being Developed by Daikin

Creating a Installers Marketing “playground” where Service Unearthing the Potential Needs of applications added values are Customer management Air conditioning Systems born out of trial Region-specific Regional developers Accounting applications management, etc. Retail Sales Quality Product and error! BI/analysis tool control development Regional applications (region-specific functions and UI) store force Personal information Playgrounds are Necessary protection Unauthorized control, etc. Information Inter-system Analytical systems accumulation linkage BMS/BEMS for Making Dynamic Value database (DB) Common parts (API)groups Flexibility and Automatic Information accumulation Other systems Suggestions to Customers Toshiaki Kumata (Equipment operation, etc.) scalability optimization database (DB) Information Communication Group Cloud platform Leader and Senior Engineer Security Technology and Innovation Center Born in 1981. Joined Daikin in 2006. Transferred to Daikin Europe N. V. “As information communication hardware issues might be (DENV) in 2012. In charge of marketing Edge Edge

technologies have evolved, the declining,” says Senior Engineer and product planning for IT products, RA such as controllers. Transferred to TIC RA EcoCute volume of transmitted information Toshiaki Kumata, who is a TIC Under-floor VRV in 2018. heating Combustion and the number of problem-solving Information Communication EcoCute Applied Under-floor boiler RA QA VRV RA QA VRV heating QA Altherma methods have drastically Group Leader. Smartphone User Owners Owners increased. As a result, I think Building Building User management Control management With the Awareness of Smartphone Control companies companies panel panel customers’ awareness of Tenants Tenants Issues now Declining, Small-scale structures Medium-scale structures Medium-scale structures Large-scale structures What will We Use to Stay such as ordinary homes such as large homes (mansions) such as office buildings such as shopping malls Connected with End Users? saving is no longer considered an added value. Residential market (for home use) Commercial market (for business use) Daikin’s Airnet Service has a “We have always thought about 25-year history as a cutting-edge what added values we can offer repair-technician dispatching after delivering air conditioners, system that links air conditioners but a completely new approach is on the cultures and ways of problems from the information Making the “Secret to the control center. required here. IoT technologies thinking in individual regions transmitted from customers will Sauce“ Available to However, it is also a fact that have been evolving, communication Anyone and which incorporate customers’ only be possible at the local other similar systems have now infrastructures are becoming well usage information. working level. From now on, it Nintendo’s Famicom Has emerged, leaving little room for established, and costs have been How are we going to utilize the “For example, I think it is an will be crucial to unearth a “Playground” where innovative evolution, such as the dropping drastically. For this information that has been urgent issue to transform the problems by utilizing the data Developers Create addition of services to and the reason, I think we need to take transmitted from end users in the software development accumulated at the local working Software Together enhancement of functions in the advantage of these developments future? Kumata believes it environment, which used to be a level and make suggestions to One of the models for creating a Airnet itself. Energy-saving to increase the points of contact necessary to take the plunge and black box, like the secret sauce solve the problems in the playground by making software measures for air conditioners with customers.” standardize software that is recipe of a long-established optimum timing. I consider it to open-sourced that Kumata thinks about is the Famicom. “Nintendo have also been widely adopted Replacements for air closer to end users to create a restaurant, into one that is be one of my missions to create a could have monopolized both the among end users over the past 10 conditioners for business use are “playground.” available anywhere in the world.” “playground” for that purpose.” D hardware and software, but succeeded years and as a result, energy usually purchased roughly every “For example, if we want to link Enabling software development in increasing the popularity of the Famicom by allowing other companies 15 years. Since the air conditioner cloud-based smart speakers with and manufacturing that match to create game software and interfaces market is mature, we must design Daikin’s cloud service or want to market needs with instantaneous for it,” analyzes Kumata. Reporter for “Transmitting” user experiences that will incorporate startup companies’ force at the working level where encourage end users to want to buy technologies, insisting that all live information collects in greater Jun Kobayashi Daikin products again and again. development work be done in quantity. If such a free-spirited Challenge Planning and Editing Supervisor Technology and Innovation Center “We are entering an era in Japan, will not fly. Customers in “playground” could be created, The most important thing which we must analyze data to the market would not want to collaboration on a global scale Advances in transmission discover features that customers wait and we would not be able to might also be accelerated, thinks in communication is to hear technologies are what isn’t being said. do not necessarily consider to be keep connected with customers Kumata. about to jump out of issues, but would be happy to see in various countries and regions.” He says, “The basic policy and the product realm incorporated into products, i.e., The way various services should design guidelines for creating and change even the Peter Drucker way products are added values that will help be combined differs in each infrastructure for collecting developed. Let’s join customers lead happier lives, and country or region, as do customer information in the cloud will be forces to think about Born in Vienna, Austria. A 20th-century business what kind of future we scholar and sociologist. A world authority on communicate these features to needs and markets. It has become formulated in Japan. Meanwhile, can create together. business administration and management. end users.” important to provide values based discovering and unearthing

18 Challenge 2020 Vol. 04 Reference: Cultural History of Information and Communication by Sadao Hoshina (2006 Hosei University Press) 19 Defining the Researcher Series ❹ Creating offices that will shape the future. “point 0”—the Starting Point for Redefining Space and Location We have incorporated everything that we consider to be of value into these offices. Choose your preferred option.

Takahiro Ishihara CEO & Representative Director point 0 Inc. Technology and Innovation Strategy Office, Technology Innovation Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd.

high-level space content created as part of this project. The First Project of CRESNECT, a Space Data Collaborative Platform: “point 0 marunouchi” Point 0 Inc. was established to ensure that projects utilizing CRESNECT such as point 0 marunouchi would In July 2019, Daikin Industries established point 0 proceed smoothly. Takahiro Ishihara was appointed marunouchi, a membership-based coworking space, in CEO & Representative Director. the Marunouchi district of Tokyo. This is the first project Born in 1987, Ishihara is just 32 years old. After of the collaborative space data platform known as graduating from university with a degree in economics, CRESNECT, which was jointly announced by the he joined a major Japanese ERP venture company. In following companies (listed in alphabetical order): Asahi 2013, Ishihara established a Fintech start-up, which he Breweries, Ltd., Daikin Industries, Ltd., Lion Corporation, ran for five years before joining Daikin Industries in MYCITY Inc., Okamura Corporation, Panasonic December 2017. At Daikin Industries, he worked on Corporation, TOA Corporation, Tokio Marine & Nichido CRESNECT. In February 2019, Ishihara established Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., and TOTO Ltd. The project seeks point 0 Inc. and was appointed as its inaugural CEO & to create “office spaces of the future.” The cutting-edge Representative Director. This would generally be referred technology, data, and expertise of each of the to as a major promotion. participating companies are fused and “space content” Ishihara, who had originally been involved in a is created using AI and IoT. Users are then able to try Fintech-type start-up, applied to join Daikin mid-career out this “space content” in verification tests with the despite admittedly knowing nothing about air aim of creating healthy and comfortable office spaces. conditioning industry terminology. Content that caters to a variety of office scenarios has Looking back, he comments: “I wanted to know how been prepared. much I could actually achieve in a major corporation.” For example, content linking “voice-based emotion However, having actually started working at the analysis” with “spatial scent spraying” to create meeting company, he now feels that “Daikin provides great rooms that encourage smooth discussions, or services latitude when it comes to engaging in new challenges.” that improve comfort through automated air-conditioning, After joining Daikin, Ishihara was assigned to the Daikin’s personal comfort space-management solutions are designed to lighting, and security control. It is anticipated that new Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Group, where he was assigned create comfortable spaces. One example is the deliberate creation zones values and services will be generated by means such to a number of projects. One of these was CRESNECT, with different temperatures in open spaces in order to create multiple, distinct temperature environments.

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■Incorporating an ■User-adjustable environments Yuji Yoneda abundance of greenery The air conditioning, lighting, The open spaces and scents in the open spaces and Daikin Industries, Ltd. incorporate Map of point 0 meeting rooms can be controlled Executive Officer greenery, with the according to user preferences. General Manager window areas in Technology and Innovation Center particular lined with an abundance of greenery. Choose people not by their age, gender, or experience but by their potential! ■Colored lighting ■Office bar counters The meditation room Point 0 marunouchi is a place for experimentation in Asahi Breweries has installed bar uses Panasonic’s colored the field of air and space solutions. I firmly believe that counters for office work as part of an lighting to create relaxing we should entrust its operation to Ishihara despite his The concentration booths use Daikin’s air conditioning experiment to see whether they can spaces by combining and Panasonic’s lighting to provide solutions for inspire and energize users. different colors. young age. This is not a place for technological maintaining an appropriate level of alertness. experiments; rather, it is a place to test different business models. I feel that TIC has few human resources who can coordinate such projects properly. It is still not good set him a time limit of two to three years. While this which led to the creation of point 0. Difficulties were space for carrying out verification tests.” at creating value. While TIC has a large body of expertise deadline might seem short, whether it is two years or faced with CRESNECT and Ishihara even asked to be related to technology, a host of things must be considered three, it is important to quickly assess the feasibility of Hoping to Create New Values Utilizing Data excused from the project at one point. However, he also when establishing a new business model. This includes business. We felt that it was necessary to put pressure from Air Conditioning Equipment by Recruiting said: “If you give me absolute freedom of discretion, I Partner Companies and Sharing Data properly understanding management, sales, customers, on him by giving him a limited timeframe. will make it my mission to ensure that this project is a markets, and other non-technological content before At Daikin, we do not blame people for forward-thinking success.” Daikin chose to entrust Ishihara with the I asked Ishihara what he wanted to achieve going developing strategies. All these are essential. There are failures; we do not demote people when they make project as his mission. forward. also many areas where we will have to rely on the mistakes. For this reason, our employees are able to After being entrusted with his mission, Ishihara “To put it simply, I want to redefine space. I want to expertise and capabilities of other companies if we want fearlessly take on challenges and work with peace of moved quickly. His vision was of “a tomorrow, where create spaces that can be changed by the people using to make progress. mind. Daikin provides an environment and corporate work consists of the act of creation.” them,” says Ishihara. He expanded on this idea, saying, One of the reasons that we appointed Ishihara to lead climate that is highly conducive to allowing its employees Ishihara says that he wanted to join Daikin after “The open areas contain seats like normal cafes, high this project was that he was previously the president of to embark on new challenges. That is why we want being fascinated by its catchphrase of “solving problems desks, as well as high chairs. By preparing spaces with a a venture company. This means that he possesses the Ishihara to be bold. through air.” So, as a Daikin representative, he wanted variety of different characteristics, we enable users to necessary ability and passion to take action. We think his TIC is fully prepared for this undertaking, and co-work, to propose the theme of “air conditioning and space select the specific space that suits how they want to work. ability to take action, which is on a level that we haven’t team-work, and hard-work are essential. Ishihara will innovation.” However, this theme was not appropriate Different spaces may be easier to work in depending on previously seen at the Technology and Innovation Center, not be able to go about things with just his own efforts. for the other nine partner companies. For this reason, the user’s age, gender, or occupation. It might also possible is his selling point. In addition, from his experience as He will need to have the cooperation and trust of Ishihara declared to the other nine companies that to collect this sort of data and sell it to external parties.” the president of a venture company, he knows what everyone else in the team. As such, he will have the full “Daikin will change the air,” and proposed the two “Until this space was created, I was inextricably linked setbacks are. We think this will be a strength, and this support of the company, TIC, and, of course, myself. D keywords of “air” and “space.” Point 0 was established to point 0. Now, we are in the position of collaborating is where we have high expectations of him. so that Daikin could create new solutions based on on solutions with the other partner companies. So, the So far, we have succeeded in manufacturing air these two themes. viewpoint has changed to what Daikin needs to do to conditioning equipment. Manufacturing requires According to Ishihara: “Each of the partner companies ensure that everything goes smoothly. Going forward, I experience. There are probably many people in their Executive Officer Yuji Yoneda is General Manager of the TIC: provided input according to their areas of expertise. For think that I will come to be more strongly associated twenties and thirties who struggle because they don’t “We want to offer spaces that example, since Daikin specializes in the manufacture of with Daikin than with point 0 itself.” have sufficient experience. With such a type of value are easy to work in by blurring the distinction between work air conditioning systems, the company was able to offer Having said that, Ishihara is, fundamentally, “neutral.” creation and business model, however, if someone has and play. We believe that air advice on what type of air conditioning systems should He says powerfully: “In the end, I want everyone to be the energy and (the energy and ability) ability to take conditioning equipment itself be used where.” Each company utilized their strengths happy. The question is: what do I want to achieve at action and get things done, younger people may actually can become the hub that is able to collect data, and we are and expertise to contribute their own solutions, and this Daikin within this overarching goal?” be able to work with greater freedom and flexibility, and pursuing the establishment of eventually took concrete shape as “point 0 marunouchi.” Despite being just 32 years old, Ishihara has been made are better able to pioneer new fields. new business models based on “To be honest,” Ishihara continues, “the project has far responsible for a major project. There are high hopes for We told him not to end at just verification tests, and this idea.” exceeded my expectations. It has become an excellent what he will achieve with his evident commitment. D

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Playing the Role of the Heart that Circulates the Refrigerant ● Like a screw compressor, Compressor type Screw compressor a centrifugal compressor is installed in large commercial chillers. It Compressor, the Key uses the centrifugal force of a vaned wheel called an impeller to add kinetic energy to the refrigerant, Component Determining Air converting its pressure and compressing it. Centrifugal Conditioner Performance compressor A screw compressor The compressor incorporated into the outdoor unit essentially plays a role like the heart circulating the is installed primarily refrigerant, which is like the blood of the air conditioner. Because of its effect on power consumption, in large commercial chillers, and uses a noise, and other specifications, the compressor is the key part that determines the air conditioner’s rotating member performance and creates important value for it as a product. called a screw rotor and a plastic gate Swing compressor Scroll compressor rotor to compress the refrigerant. Continuing to Work on Manufacturing New High-performance/ High-reliability Compressors ●Swing compressor How do we answer if we are cooling or warming the room The Compressor Consumes Unlike competitors’ rotary compressors, Daikin’s swing asked what items should be come to mind, along with precise compressor has the roller integrated with the vane, reducing 80% of the Power Consumed loss due to refrigerant gas leakage or circulation. evaluated to gauge the operation, etc. by Air Conditioner performance of an air conditioner? An equally important factor in Gas To begin with, an air determining the value of an air Take an air conditioner for a Gas suction conditioner would be totally conditioner as a product is actually store, for example. The outdoor discharge useless as a product if it could not its power consumption. unit contains a compressor, along keep the room cool in summer or Plainly speaking, how much with other components such as warmin winter. For any acceptable electricity is required to lower the the motor and inverter needed to Accumulator product, speed and capacity for temperature of a room by 10 ℃ in run the air conditioner. summer, for example? In other An air conditioner adjusts the Group Leader Matsuura holds and explains the words, it is not an overstatement room temperature by changing the mechanism of a swing compressor. Regarding the Motor to say that how little electricity is pressure of a refrigerant to vaporize roller-vane integrated type, he recalls that, while required to cool the room (how or liquidize it and utilizing the there was a lot of internal discussion during development competition with other companies, inexpensively it can be cooled) movement of heat during this in the end Daikin’s culture of encouraging its determines the very performance process. The compressor is employees to take on challenges led to the Mechanism development and commercialization of this and value of an air conditioner as responsible for changing the compressor with its new structure. Piston cylinder a product. pressure of and circulating the refrigerant during this process. In Swing compressor Outdoor unit other words, the compressor plays cross-sectional diagram the role of the heart by circulating the refrigerant, which is like the Competitor’s rotary compressor Daikin’s swing compressor blood of an air conditioner. The type of compressor used Condensing pressure + spring pressure varies according to the size of the Differential air conditioner. residential air Vane Reactive force Differential pressure Swing bushing Hideki Matsuura conditioners primarily use a pressure Chief Engineer swing compressor, while a scroll Leader of the TIC Compressor Compression Suction Compression Suction Technology Group compressor is used in building air chamber chamber chamber chamber Born in Osaka. Joined Daikin in April conditioners. Although these two 1993. Leader of the Compressor Technology Group. His ambitious types have different structures, goal is to make the group the best they both apply adiabatic Roller Piston team of compressor technology compression to a refrigerant that engineers in the world. He continues Crankshaft Crankshaft to proudly take on the challenge of The compressor is housed has been sucked into the suction creating unique Daikin products. here inside the outdoor unit. chamber inside the compressor by

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Three team members (Kawabata, Deguchi, and Isome, right to left) of the Analysis ●Scroll compressor Gas suction Technology Advancement Team inside the The function of this Compressor Technology Group, with Group compressor manifests Gas discharge Leader Matsuura (far left). Each time the itself in an extremely members get even a minor flash of insight small region measuring while looking at drawings and parts, they 1/1000 mm. To analyze share it with each other and keep and evaluate it, the group discussing it. They consistently adhere to adopted a microscopic the belief that there is no end to efforts to viewpoint and broadened make better things, holding collaboration as the observation target to their underlying philosophy. include the metal surface Fixed scroll and its micro Orbiting scroll deformations, creating a “visualizing” technology.

Fixed scroll and orbiting scroll Succeeded in reducing mechanical loss by approximately 20% by in home air conditioners, Daikin In terms of the mechanical loss “While inheriting Daikin’s applying hydraulic pressure. successfully developed a that occurs during operation, the proprietary technologies that no As a result, compression efficiency Scroll compressor was improved by 2%. proprietary technology called a swing compressor eliminates the competitors have, we must cross-sectional diagram “swing compressor.” vane/roller loss, which is 12.5% strengthen collaboration with both The main difference from the of the total in rotary compressors. internal and external organizations, ●Characteristics of Daikin scroll compressor: High thrust mechanism rotary compressors primarily being Furthermore, in terms of and continue developing the new used in competitors’ residential volume efficiency, the swing technologies we need to stay Fixed scroll Compressed gas load air conditioners is the integration compressor is 4 points better than ahead of competitors.” Fixed scroll of the rotating roller with the vane, a rotary compressor at low speed. This is the mission Matsuura is Groove Groove which is a plate pressed against Additionally, enabling the holding up for the compressor the rotating roller to separate the slowest rotation in the industry has group he is currently leading. The high- and low-pressure sides. given Daikin’s swing compressor awareness that achieving this This integration eliminated a major advantage over mission will increase value for Orbiting scroll lubrication loss and gas leakage, competitors’ products. Enabling our customers is shared inside which used to occur in rotary low-speed operation means it the group, which is taking on the compressors at the point of becomes possible to control the challenge of technology contact between the tip of the capacity of the compressor in the development. High dome pressure Thrust load reduced vane and the roller rotary. low-capacity range, as a result Actually, many air conditioner by hydraulic pressure achieving improvements in both manufacturers procure Thrust force comfort and energy saving. compressors from other companies. (combined force) Daikin too obtains some parts Housing Endless Pursuit of from other companies. “However, Orbiting scroll Technology Development Mechanical loss reduced by approximately 20% Researcher’s Pride if we buy key components from Crankshaft outside, it will be difficult to A scroll compressor compresses differentiate our products. Daikin’ the refrigerant by meshing a fixed s basic stance is to make the key gradually decreasing the chamber efficiency of the compressor and develop such technologies and scroll with an orbiting scroll. components in-house, and that size through vibration or rotation of reducing the power consumption products. Daikin’s scroll compressor with a also gives us an advantage,” a piston or scroll, thereby improves the performance of the Hideki Matsuura, Chief new structure was created by the declares Matsuura. increasing the pressure of the air conditioner. Engineer and Leader of the TIC design, manufacturing, and There is no end to technology refrigerant. This is not in any way an Compressor Technology Group, quality control team members development. It continues even The ability to efficiently achieve exaggeration. Improving the stresses, “We are working with a after repeated trial and error. Its now in order to create even better refrigerant compression using only compression efficiency of all the sense of pride knowing that the key feature is that the two scrolls products. a small amount of electrical power air conditioners being used in compressor is what determines mesh with as little loss as possible. Daikin manufactures several affects the energy conservation Japan by a mere 2% would save the value of air conditioners.” Group Leader Matsuura spreads out The team members arrived at a types of compressors, and its and explains all the parts used in a performance of the air conditioner. an amount of power equivalent to structure in which the fixed scroll advanced technologies and Reducing Loss by Integrating compressor. He stresses, “It is Actually, the compressor uses that generated by a large thermal important for all of us continue striving and orbiting scroll, manufactured expertise are incorporated into all the Roller with the Vane, 80% of the power consumed by power station. to make ever more efficient parts and separately, operate without leaking of them. And that will keep Getting ahead of Competitors to work on coming up with new ideas, an air conditioner. From another TIC’s Compressor Technology never being content with what we have any gas, reducing mechanical loss enhancing the value of Daikin point of view, improving the Group is working diligently to In the field of compressors used created and thinking we are done.” by as much as approximately 20%. products. D

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Cultivating Human Resources in Three Areas through the Daikin Daikin’s New Initiatives Information and Communications Technology College (1) Human resources for utilizing AI Report on the Daikin Information and (human resources possessing the abilities needed to make business proposals) (2) Human resources for developing AI technologies Communications Technology College (human resources possessing the abilities needed to solve problems using AI) (3) Human resources for developing systems （ ） (human resources possessing the abilities needed to develop AI systems)

providing the primary learning opportunities. At the same time, our human resource development is not only targeting new hires. Although the durations are different, existing employees also go through classroom learning and practical training, repeating problem-based learning (PBL) in various divisions. Including Managers (Division Manager and Chief Manager classes), who also attended lectures and seminars, a total of 1,000 employees will have taken courses on AI technology by the end of FY2021. In 2017, Daikin established the Daikin Information and Communications Technology College with the main What will they work on at the Daikin Information and objective of internally cultivating human resources in the following three areas: AI utilization, AI technology Communications Technology College? development, and system development. With a primary goal of promoting and utilizing AI and IoT, which are Here are the three areas we want our employees to important technologies expected to be utilized in all divisions within the Daikin Group, we are trying to rapidly work on in AI and IoT. develop the human resources that will be necessary for achieving this goal. (1) Business innovation (new businesses, new services, and new products) This was a new undertaking for Daikin. It was December solve problems using AI) Examples include the entire process from drafting a 2017 when the Daikin Information and Communications (3) Human resources for developing systems (human hypothesis, to validation, to full-scale deployment of Technology College, an internal college, began. The resources possessing the abilities needed to develop models for solution businesses utilizing AI and IoT; objective for establishing this college was clear. AI systems) using AI to analyze big data to create differentiation Takada, Section Chief Itatani, and Nishikawa (from left). New initiatives for Daikin also represent new challenges for them. AI data analysis technology is an important technology It is said that when preparations were being made to content; and even utilizing AI and IoT to innovate Since they have been placed in charge of developing expected to be utilized in all divisions within the Daikin establish the Daikin Information and Communications core equipment. employees who will carry a new Daikin, they keenly feel the weight of the expectations and responsibilities placed on them. Group. Developing human resources who will become Technology College, the human resources for developing (2) Process innovation (operational reform, operational the driving force in this field was the pressing issue. AI technologies described in (2) were extremely rare improvement) Specifically, we are trying to develop human resources and there was a pressing need to develop them as This refers to planning for further streamlining, business model that utilizes IoT and building the in the following three areas: quickly as possible. improving productivity, and realizing a next-generation foundation necessary for achieving its content. (1) Human resources for utilizing AI (human resources The human resources in the areas described in (1) and smart factory. It also means developing a solution Initiatives for operational reform and improvement possessing the abilities needed to make business (3) were also in short supply in terms of their number in the indirect divisions are required. proposals) and quality, and needed to be developed and enhanced (3) Support for managerial decision making (2) Human resources for developing AI technologies quickly, like those described in (2). It was with these AI and IoT will be utilized to analyze the big data (human resources possessing the abilities needed to issues in mind that the Daikin Information and encompassing all areas of the company, such as data Communications Technology College was started in on production, sales, and service. Support for December 2017. formulating new businesses and management strategies also becomes an important element. Shuji Itatani (44) Plan to Graduate a Total of 1,000 Employees for Manager 3 years, including 100 Selected New Hires, in Administrative Office Consisting of 10 Employees Administrative Office addition to Existing Employees Selected from Various Internal Departments. Daikin Information and Communications Technology Expected to Act as Pioneering Leaders College The issue of highest focus when the Daikin Information “I feel like a parent who is and Communications Technology College was being Yasushi Takada (57) 10 employees selected from various internal watching out for the new established was the training and education of new hires. Administrative Office of the Daikin Information and departments are in charge of operating the Daikin hires. Since I myself was not Communications Technology College familiar with AI, it felt like we Since FY2018, 100 selected new hires have been studying “I had been with Daikin for 35 years when I was told I was Information and Communications Technology College. were studying together,” says information and communications technology every year. being assigned to the Administrative Office of the Daikin They vary in age, and some are experts in their Section Chief Itatani. He is In the first year, they undergo classroom learning and in Information and Communications Technology College. It departments while others have only been with Daikin compassionately watching was like a bolt out of the blue. At the same time, I really feel over the new hires, who the second year, practical activities in the various the heavy responsibilities of the job since it will impact the for a few years after having come from other companies, often appear bewildered. divisions within Daikin are added to the curriculum, future of our young employees,” stresses Takada. making the human resources in the Administrative

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As part of the basic education, the trainees are expected to deepen their understanding One member of the first generation First of Daikin’s businesses and visions, and learn the technical knowledge involved in of trainees, who was enrolled for his second year, gave a seminar operations. They are also expected to gain specialized and introductory knowledge of year based on his experiences to the Curriculum IoT and AI, their installation, and absorb the base knowledge for computer systems. second-generation trainees. for new hires Every four months, the trainees rotate through multiple workplaces, such as sales, Members of the Administrative Second development, manufacturing, and indirect divisions, for on-the-job training. The goal Office, including Manager year here is to develop employees who can solve issues from a cross-divisional, Itatani, as well as his fellow company-wide perspective. classmates appreciated his growth while the second generation of trainees envisioned their future transposed on this promising Office quite diverse. These 10 employees created the Everything was based on trial and error. If some colleague. lecture program, negotiated with lecturers, and even initiatives were new to the new hires in the class, they support the trainees, especially new hires. were actually also new to the employees in the In addition to lectures given to the entire class, the Administrative Office. Takata, who had actually worked trainees are divided into small groups of five on average, in production, sales, and service for at least 30 years, and often engage in exercises in their individual groups. said, “At first, I was bewildered about why I was being The 10 people from the Administrative Office say they assigned to the Administrative Office. However, when I interact with the trainees under a variety of situations, started thinking about ways to help the new hires with resources who will carry Daikin’s future. seeing how things should be done is really helpful.” At addressing their concerns and answering their questions. classroom learning, and being a liaison to ensure the same time, they seem to be concerned about whether Spirit of Collaboration Alive Throughout. “Since the new hires chosen to attend the College were smooth transitions between workplaces in various they will be able to reach the level the first term of Support Structure also Shows a Strong Will to thrust into Daikin’s new initiatives without knowing divisions, I realized that someone with many years of Make the Daikin Information and trainees have reached, after attending classes for two their way around at all, they must have felt quite uneasy. experience at the working level was needed. I want to Communications Technology College Successful years. “Frankly speaking, I’m not sure about whether I Also because they had no previous work experience, they do my best to pass on my experiences to the trainees.” will be able to do a good job when I’m in the position to seemed more naïve than new hires who were directly Nishikawa, one of the mid-career hires, is still young, We asked several new hires who had attended the lead AI. Will I really be able to learn what is required assigned to various operations departments. Giving only slightly over 30. “Since the Daikin Information and Daikin Information and Communications Technology and turn that into profit, and utilize the specialized them advice on various issues one by one led to deeper Communications Technology College is also a new College about their experiences. knowledge I have gained?” relationships both at work and privately in some cases. endeavor for Daikin, there is a lot that has to be done, One first generation trainee who had already completed Some expressed uneasiness saying, “Even when I study As a result, I even got invited to many end-of-the-year such as caring for the employees and trainees. So I’m the first year of basic education and was learning on hard and contemplate a lot, I can only come up with the parties held by some of the close-knit groups of new getting a great deal of satisfaction from helping to run applied job in divisions told us, “At first I felt really uneasy. same old ideas. Even after studying hard, I cannot come hires that developed during the trainings,” laughs the College.” We were told that this “college” was a new initiative, up with anything unique.” However, they all say that Section Chief Itatani. He thinks about how he can help develop the human and I had never heard of its existence or purpose when I the feeling of uneasiness is definitely getting lighter. was applying to join Daikin. So I had this vague sense The goal of the Daikin Information and of unease about what was going to happen.” Communications Technology College is to graduate a Course Structure at the Daikin Information and Communications Technology College The same was also true for those employees assigned total of 1,000 trainees, combining existing employees I. Development of human resources who can utilize AI to the Administrative Office to provide guidance, and and new hires, by FY2021, and to develop human Section Chief Itatani recalls, “That’s why we tried to resources who will be able to fully utilize AI and IoT. (1) AI utilization course targeting managers maintain proactive communication. We actively attended Although judging whether this program is a success or ● Human resources who will utilize AI and IoT to draft and promote measures for operational improvement even informal dinners and parties organized by our first failure will take several more years, it should not take [Target] Managers: 400 employees generation of trainees so we could help address their too long for the feeling of uneasiness among the new D Guidance, support concerns and reassure them.” hires to turn into confidence. There was naturally a feeling of unease also for some 2. Development of human resources 3. Cultivating human resources who of other first term trainees who had already completed who can develop AI technology can develop systems their first year of education and begun learning in the (2) AI technology development course (3) System development course actual workplace. ● Human resources responsible for developing AI ● Human resources responsible for developing One trainee said, “It’s natural for us to feel unsure in technologies systems using AI and IoT our first workplace. I was not sure how the senior [Target] Engineers and planning personnel: 150 employees [Target] Information technology personnel: 150 employees employees at our company would treat us “youngsters” Guidance, support who had only been with the company one year and knew (4) AI and IoT human resource development course targeting new hires (AI + systems) little about the actual work. As a matter of fact, it was ● Daikin’s unique AI and IoT human resources who understand our company’s core technologies not easy to help them understand AI utilization, but [Target] New hires with technical degrees: 300 employees they began to gradually listen to what I had to say. That Ryota Nishikawa (32) Administrative Office of the Daikin Information and helped build my confidence, and I felt that I wanted to Communications Technology College 4. Education targeting all employees become a valued employee who could offer many “I moved to Daikin from another company in 2018 when (5) e-learning targeting all employees suggestions useful for the company.” enrollment of new hires in the Daikin Information and Some trainees of the second generation said, “What Communications Technology College began. In that sense, I’m ● Improving the AI literacy of all employees part of the same generation as the enrolled trainees. I’ll do my [Target] All employees the previous trainees are now actually doing is a good best to help them on a one-on-one basis,” says Nishikawa. model and example for us. Even when we are unsure,

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