Factory Tour in Aichi
From 9th till 11th of November 2015, 9 first year students had a factory tour in Aichi as well as last year to have an experience of the flow of textile goods production. At each site, we had a productive time through touching actual products and each company's positive attitude toward producing high quality items and challenging to the world.
On the first day we visited Nakaden Keori Co., Ltd. (woolen textiles, chemical synthetic fiber textiles and knit yard goods) and Takumi Dyeing Co., Ltd (dyeing and finishing). On the second day we visited Miyata WF Co., Ltd (specialist of producing circular knit product), SOTOH Co., Ltd(dyeing and finishing), and Takihyo Co., Ltd (has own spinning factory). On the third day we had a tour of the Toyota Commemorative Museum of IT.
(Please refer to the articles from the last year 1 . 2 . 3 )
Student's report by Mr. Tomoki Nagaishi (1st-year student)
1.Purpose of participation
To learn how to apply our knowledge into actual business, from seeing the manufacturing front line and gaining knowledge of making high quality products. Also to learn the way of solving problems by discussing and identifying problems.
2.Issues identified as a result of participation
I didn't have much interest in ordinary textiles before, but I must pay better attention to them to develop and deepen my understanding. The knowledge of those techniques and inventive ideas from this tour will help my future research and studies.
3.Result of participation
It was a valuable opportunity to have an actual experience of how those textiles are used and made with various techniques in real business, considering what we studied at the university. In recent days, the Japanese textile producing area is getting smaller. However, the products from the Bishu area are high quality and applied with their local character which is unique and lively. We also learned from their laborsaving and efficient workstyle for not just quality, but also for quantity.
4.How will you apply what you learned to your research?
Until this tour, I thought textiles were not related to my research very much. However I learned to imagine the real usage of the textiles and it expanded our field of vision. So now I will take this experience to make our research further improve for the huge variety and high quality textile industry.