Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI
We can now use sensors and AI to determine a person's state of health or to objectively detect the mood of a situation. In this section, we introduce some examples of how these technologies can be used to improve the quality of our lives and work.
One of the issues facing the logistics industry in recent years is loss of pallets. We showcase the utilization of IoT technology to solve the problem of losing logistics pallets in this article.
Features for creating safe and clean living spaces have come to see strong demand in air purifiers and air conditioners due to the impact of novel infectious diseases. We therefore spoke with a manager who is involved with ionizers and ozonizers at Murata about the changes in air modification needs and the features that are desirable in ionizers and ozonizers. This discussion is part of a series of technology articles about Murata Manufacturing.
Bringing humans and machines even closer with sensors and AI
Sensors and haptics carry great potential for creating new human-machine interfaces that bring humans and machines even closer together. We discuss why and present some possible scenarios below.
The number of companies, especially startups, involved in femtech is increasing around the world. It is predicted that the size of the femtech market in Japan will reach about 2 trillion yen in 2025.
The development of space rockets by private companies and space travel by private citizens is attracting a great deal of attention. Measures against debris floating in space (space debris) have thus become a global issue before the coming age of discovery in space.
The bathroom, which is used daily in the home, is effective for fixed-point observation of human behavior data and living conditions. A movement is underway to utilize the bathroom in health management by combining the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor technology.
Features for creating safe and clean living spaces have come to see strong demand in air purifiers and air conditioners due to the impact of novel infectious diseases. We therefore spoke with a manager who is involved with ionizers and ozonizers at Murata about the changes in air modification needs and the features that are desirable in ionizers and ozonizers. This discussion is part of a series of technology articles about Murata Manufacturing.
The Future of Healthcare and Technology
This article examines the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and robots in medical care.
The Future of Healthcare and Technology
This article describes the evolution that 5G will bring to telemedicine, including online medical consultations.
The Future of Healthcare and Technology
This article looks at efforts to use AI to bridge the disparity in information that medical professionals have (i.e. information asymmetry).
The Future of Healthcare and Technology
This article explores the use of IoT to promote self-care, medical care by patients themselves.
The Future of Healthcare and Technology
This article explains the current state of medical care, as the background for the use of technology in the field of medicine and healthcare.
SDGs×Murata
Continuing from Part 1, this article introduces specific SDG initiatives regarding Murata's MLCCs. It is part of a series that introduces technology articles about Murata Manufacturing.
SDGs×Murata
This article focuses on MLCCs (Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors), which are core products of Murata, and introduces case studies regarding SDG initiatives. It is part of a series that introduces technology articles about Murata Manufacturing.
Let's take a look at IoT examples in nursing care facilities with a focus on sensor technology. This includes the introduction of IoT equipment that focus on efforts to reduce employee workloads.
The time people spend at home has increased significantly due to the spread of COVID-19. As a result, there are no doubt many people who have felt that the frequency of housework has increased (e.g. food preparation and clean-up, the amount and frequency of laundry, room cleaning, etc.).
The key to smart agriculture is the utilization of robots, AI, IoT, ICT and other advanced technologies. Introducing self-driving tractors, self-navigating drones, yield combine harvesters, harvesting robots, drones and other technologies into agriculture will solve long-standing challenges and secure a workforce of skilled workers while saving on labor and manpower. The goal is to realize a new and advanced form of agriculture in which yield and quality improve, costs decrease, and incomes increases.
Using IoT to prevent wildlife damage to crops caused when wild boars, deer, common raccoons and other wild animals devastate fields is garnering attention.
PoC, which can reduce the number of cables connecting to automotive cameras, requires a Bias-T circuit to separate the signals and power supply. Inductors for such circuits cannot simply be selected, but they can be easily selected by using Murata’s online tool (BIST). Therefore, we spoke with the managers who were involved in the development of BIST about the features and objectives in releasing the tool. This is an introduction to a technology article about Murata Manufacturing.
This article introduces the details and features of a technology offered by Murata that uses Wi-Fi to safeguard children in cars.
In Part 3 of our series, we will learn about the direction of development associated with the remaining two elements consisting of Shared and Services (S) and Electric (E), as well as the measures implemented when conducting advanced development of technologies and products in anticipation of needs amid changing automobile industry supply chains.
Part 2 of our series will introduce the technologies and production systems that support the strengths of Murata’s automotive MLCCs. In addition, we also heard more about the direction of automotive MLCC development due to the progress of the Connected (C) and Autonomous (A) features that are part of the four elements that make up the CASE trend.
Automotive MLCCs must prioritize the implementation of a higher level of quality that is completely different from the MLCCs for consumer devices. We spoke with two automotive MLCC product technology managers who are well versed in the application and technology requirement trends in the automotive industry about the type of MLCCs required in the CASE era, the frontlines of technology development to meet those requirements, and future developments.
SDGs×Murata
In Part 1, we showed you outlines of Murata’s vision and initiatives on the SDGs. In Part 2, we will illustrate specific initiatives and how they will contribute to improvement in corporate value and market competitiveness.
SDGs×Murata
Murata uses the SDGs as a set of guidelines for its management strategies. We interviewed the people in charge of sustainability promotion in the company about Murata’s vision and initiatives on the SDGs.
At Murata, we are working to solve social issues through our businesses. For the second part of this article, we had Mr. Tsumori, who is in charge of the Traffic Counter System, speak about SDGs and social contributions.
The role of B2B alliances is becoming ever more important when transitioning from the conventional business model of manufacturing and selling electronic components toward providing a data-selling service. On this occasion, we spoke to Mr. Tsumori of Murata, who operates the “Traffic Counter System,” and Mr. Haruno Subiyanto, a representative of a local partner with whom we have formed an alliance to expand our operations in Indonesia.
SDGs×Murata
What are the SDGs of excellent global companies? How should we address the SDGs? A brief introduction to.
SDGs×Murata
What are the SDGs? Why do companies need SDGs? The following is a brief description of.
In the latter half, we have learned about the inspection results of the one-on-one meeting improvement project as well as the kinds of changes that were observed during one-on-one meetings that followed from the perspective of both manager and employee.
An increasing number of companies have introduced one-on-one meetings as a method of communication between managers and employees. However, there are issues such as the complications in visualizing results. Here, we introduce our one-on-one meeting improvement project that was applied to a certain department at Murata.
This paper introduces the EMI specifications applicable to the standards for rail applications, and guides through a simple filter design to meet the standards.
“Smaller size and more efficient” are common objectives sought by many of our customers. When it comes to Murata’s power conversion products, our power design team have developed solutions leading to a 2x reduction in footprint and a one-third reduction in height, with significant improvement in efficiency, transient performance and EMI. Murata’s step-level increase in performance, the result of a unique two-stage architecture that uses many low voltage FETs throughout the powertrain in a complex arrangement, enables thinner and more mobile designs, with improved packing density and efficiency.
In Part 2, we talked about the difficulties in developing MLCC-specific manufacturing technology and the technology that solved our issues, as well as why Murata’s development system is so strong and continues to lead the way in miniaturizing and increasing the capacitance of MLCCs. Murata engineers also explained the prospects for further miniaturization and capacitance expansion of MLCCs.
We asked the product planners and engineers who developed the new generation of small MLCCs, which are intended to be installed in 5G-enabled smartphones, about the MLCCs that they have developed and their impact on device development.
IoT is the key to breaking free from the dependence of maintenance work on intuition and unique skills. In Part 2, we will hear in detail from Kenichi Furutani, a consultant at Japan Excel-Management Consulting (JEMCO), about the specific methods and keys to implementing IoT for maintenance work.
Standardization of maintenance work is one of the most important factors in improving the competitiveness and productivity of factories. We asked Kenichi Furutani, a consultant at Japan Excel-Management Consulting (JEMCO), about how to break free from dependence on intuition and unique skills for IoT-based maintenance work.
In Part 1, we presented the issues the manufacturing site is engaged in. In Part 2, we will present the Kanazawa Murata factory’s efforts to transition factories into smart factories using IT tools as well as our future developments.
The manufacturing industry has been engaged in such issues as productivity improvement and quality management. In Part 1, we will present what kind of issues the Kanazawa Murata factory, which has created products using advanced technologies, is aiming to tackle and how the factory seeks to face them.
Construction sites are areas where it would be difficult to replace people with digital entities, as much of the work is dependent on the experience and judgment of engineers and craftsmen. How should DX proceed in circumstances like this? We continue our interview with JACIC’s Takashi Ozawa from where we left off in the first part of the interview.
We asked Takashi Ozawa, executive director of the Japan Construction Information Center (JACIC), which is aiming to build “new on-site capabilities” in the construction industry through DX, about the current progress of DX in the construction industry and his thoughts on the subject.
In part 3/3 of this series of articles, we discuss the development of the environments required for haptic sensations to be articulated precisely, hardware that allows for stimulation that can be felt by the brain, in addition to the future applications of 3DHaptics technology that are in demand by creators.
In part 2/3 of this series of articles, the developers themselves explain the chronology of the development of 3DHaptics. Through doing so, we also explore the merits of using haptics in presenting content and the principles that make realistic haptics possible.
Innovations in content presentation give rise to rapid growth in the gaming market. We explain “3DHaptics technology” based on comments from an interview with a visionary of the American video game industry, Nicole Lazzaro, CEO and founder of XEODesign, as well as an interview with the founders of Miraisens.
In this second part, we asked about Murata's efforts to provide easy-to-use modules for customers developing IoT devices.
In recent years, IoT has made it possible to collect detailed data from various locations in the real world, but there have been challenges in collecting data over long distances of several kilometers. Murata has developed a cellular LPWA module that enables long-distance wireless communication with ultra-small size and low power consumption, and also enables reliable data collection without the need for specialized expertise in wireless communication. We interviewed the people in charge about the envisioned usage scenarios and the efforts being made in the development process.
In Part 1, we learned all about the IoT integration that took place at Fukui Murata Manufacturing, as well as the predictive maintenance system and achievements that the integration made possible. In Part 2, we look into how they proceeded with IoT integration at their manufacturing site.
Since the popularization of the word “IoT,” many have recognized the necessity of its implementation in various industrial fields. This interview is a discussion presenting the points to advancing the integration of IoT technology in manufacturing sites in addition to the results and background of the implementation of IoT technology at Fukui Murata Manufacturing Co.
Let’s dive into everything from the size of the global esports market to the circumstances of esports in different countries, as well as the network environments such as 5G networks that are enhancing the rising popularity of esports. We’ll take a look at the present and future of esports.
In Part 2, we focus on two product categories among the vehicle-mounted inductor products developed and provided by Murata, and we asked engineers about the strengths of these products and the direction of future advancements.
Technical developments in vehicle-mounted networks are proceeding at a dizzying pace, and these advancements have further accelerated now that the CASE era will soon be upon us. At Murata, we were among the first to develop products compliant with the latest vehicle-mounted network standards, and have established a product development and production system capable of supplying the required volume of electronic components with the needed characteristics at the time that they are needed.
In Part 2, we asked the engineers involved in development about what Murata is doing to develop sensors with even higher safety and reliability for self-driving cars.
The era of self-driving cars traveling on city streets is fast approaching. There are great expectations for the practical application of self-driving cars as solutions to many social issues, such as securing safe means of transportation, and reducing traffic congestion and accidents. However, it is not easy to replace the advanced driving skills of a human driver with those of computers and artificial intelligence.
To achieve this, it is essential to introduce cutting-edge technology.
Let’s have a look at the emerging visions for our smart cities and the required technologies which will greatly effect the future of the smart cities we will live in.
In Part 2, we asked the engineers who were involved in development how they resolved challenging issues, the features of the completed solid-state battery, and the direction of future development using this battery and its technology.
The solid-state batteries developed by Murata are a groundbreaking technology that has the potential to expand the usage applications for mobile electronic devices. We asked the Murata engineers who were involved in this development about how the development occurred, features of the developed solid-state battery, and the direction of advancements going forward.
5G: Technology
Electronics devices are likely to become more complex to satisfy consumers expectations for small or slim devices. Reliability and miniaturisation of component technology will become a necessity.
5G: Technology
Ultra-reliable, low latency communication (URLLC) is a set of features that provide low latency and ultra-high reliability for mission-critical applications such as remote surgery for healthcare, mobility vehicle-to-vehicle communication, smart grids or industrial private networks. In 3GPP release 15 5G-NR it has been specified that the target is for 1-ms delivering near perfect reliability.
5G: Technology
5G itself is likely to have a higher current drain than its predecessors but the biggest influence on battery drainage for 5G devices is likely to come from the user. The demands from the device will be increased as 5G provides more capability. Demanding features such as VoLTE, screens, cameras and increased connections will impact the lifespan of the battery.
5G: Technology
Thermal management of 5G devices and antennas is likely to become an increasingly hot topic as there is an exponential increase in heat generated in contrast to LTEs predecessors such as 4G.
5G: Technology
5G will enable completely new functions for in-car and out-car applications, in the short-term it will revolutionise in-car infotainment and enhanced multimedia. In the near future we can expect 5G to contribute to V2X communication optimising driving experience and enabling the future of autonomous vehicles.
5G: Technology
In recent times with unscalable Wi-fi hotspots being overloaded unable to meet rapidly increasing demands for higher capacity and data speeds. The reliability and scalability of networks has become increasingly important to enterprises.
5G: Technology
Due to the ultra-high-reliability and low-latency communications (URLLC) of 5G, Mission Critical Communications (MCC) has been highlighted as a key area as part of the 3GPP Release. Delivered as part of a core network service it will allow emergency services to replace traditional radio, with more modern communications methods already available to smart phone users.
5G: Technology
5G – Massive IoT will likely account for over half of 5G cellular IoT connections. This is due to the common requirement for long battery life, deep coverage and low total cost of ownership (TCO) across larger application areas like asset management, energy & utilities and smart cities.
5G: Technology
Providing significant benefits to consumers, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) will be an extension to existing 4G network and will be amongst the first wave of the 5G services. These benefits will include significant improvement of download speeds and more cost-efficient data, up to 10 times cheaper compared to 4G. Here we explore the benefits and challenges to industry.
5G: Technology
5G promises great things, but to reach its potential it also requires significant technological advancements. We look at what is possible, what is needed and how component-level innovation is crucial to commercial success.
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Whether in autonomous or electric vehicles, automotive advances rely on electronics technologies.This page describes Murata component business, offering one-stop procurement from a full product line.
The future of automotive electronics
Whether in autonomous or electric vehicles, automotive advances rely on electronics technologies.This page describes Murata module business, applying superior technical expertise and experience for further growth.
The future of automotive electronics
Whether in autonomous or electric vehicles, automotive advances rely on electronics technologies.This page describes Murata product development for the automotive market.
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Whether in autonomous or electric vehicles, automotive advances rely on electronics technologies.Murata drives automotive advances as a partner providing comprehensive solutions.
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