Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Nonoichi City, Ishikawa Prefecture) At the Department of Psychological Information, Faculty of Information Frontier, Shinano Seisakusho Co., Ltd. (Tokyo), which handles air tools in the class "Human Engineering" (3 students of Professor Hideo Jingu) in the previous semester of the third year. In collaboration with Itabashi Ward), the company announced that it will research the company's products from the perspective of "ergonomics" and proceed with product renewal.
In the "ergonomics" class at the university, you can learn the way of thinking to make something with higher affinity by grasping the relationship between people and things from the human point of view.Target areas range from everyday items to problems such as designing control rooms for large systems, human error, usability, and worker fatigue.
In this industry-academia collaboration, three students, Chihiki Oizumi, Naoyuki Fujii, and Daichi Maeda, who are taking the same class, hoped to form a project outside the class and polish the body of the company's automobile. Research the tool "Double Action Thunder". The three will use the methods learned in class to research actual products, make proposals for improving usability, and verify renewed products.
In this project, students will experience research at the actual manufacturing site and present the research process at any time in class, such as what to do to improve the product, "How to apply ergonomics". The purpose is to deepen the understanding.In addition, the factory has the advantage of being able to renew its own products from the perspective of "ergonomics."
As for the future schedule, a training experiment will be conducted at the head office of the same factory on May 2016, 5, and a training experiment and a survey will be conducted at the university by renting a machine in June next month. In July, a final presentation will be made on the efforts and achievements in the class, and then a debriefing session will be held at Toranomon Campus.In addition, verification of the renewed product will be conducted in the "Consumer Psychology" class in the second semester.
The university is promoting education and research in collaboration with companies and regions in order to carry out "co-creation education through fusion that transcends generations, fields, and cultures" toward the creation of innovation. The "Collaboration Bureau Industry-Academia Collaboration Tokyo Branch Office" is set up on the Toranomon Campus (Minato-ku, Tokyo).This collaboration was also realized by an introduction from Mr. Takeshi Minato (Sugamo Shinkin Bank Business Support Department, Sugamo Business Creation Center Manager) who completed the graduate school "KIT Toranomon Graduate School" for working adults at the university in 2009.
