All Drawings Completed in Two Days
Group Leader,
Optical Development Group,
MIS Development 1, MIS Division,
Olympus Corporation
Katsuyuki Abe
I think that people on the development side are expected to have such capabilities as being able to find out customers' needs, go one step beyond, and incorporate their needs into production.
Team Leader,
Optical Development Group,
MIS Development 1, MIS Division,
Olympus Corporation
Ken-ichi Kusaka
Many customers who conduct asbestos inspections are Olympus users. We found our work worthwhile because we can directly live up to customers' expectations.
Seminars are held in all corners of the country to familiarize people with how to make proper use of the asbestos microscope and how to analyze asbestos-containing materials.
Tanaka immediately introduced the customer's need to the Development Department. After confirming the high possibility of developing the lens, he contacted the person in charge at JAWE.
Then, the person JAWE replied, "We have been waiting for your call." Thus, we had the chance to know exactly what was expected us in order to launch the product. Engineers in the Development Department recognized the urgent necessity and immediately devised some design proposals and dashed off a set of drawings.
Katsuyuki Abe (Optical Development Group, MIS Development Department, MIS Division) noted that "an entire day is needed to think out an idea and another entire day to make up drawings. We made every effort to have it done as a top priority."
It also normally takes about two months to prototype an objective lens. However, we managed to finish the work in a relatively short period of time. This is because we had time due to the efforts of Ken-ichi Kusaka, who was involved in the development of 10x dispersion objective lenses ten years ago, Kusaka was asked also at the request of JAWE. This 10x dispersion objective lens was the original model of our present 10x lenses available as separate orders.
"At the beginning, we got orders for a single product or two, although we had heard that orders would pour in. However, this story
made me think that this was it." (Kusaka)
There was a long prologue along the way to prototype an objective lens.
"We succeeded in developing a new 40x dispersion objective lens on the basis of the conventional 10x lens without major changes. So,
I think it was not us but the people in the manufacturing department who had a really difficult time for manufacturing the products." (Abe)
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