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For your safety! This time, we would like to introduce "Kittarou," a product that contributes to "safety" and "occupational accident prevention" for dangerous work such as cutting plastic molded products. In the past, our company used cutters to cut products, and there was a risk of accidentally cutting one's hand. Kittarou was developed as part of our MK Activity® to cut products more safely. We will introduce what kind of functions and safety devices are provided in Kittarou while looking at the development process. How Kittarou was developed Before the development of Kittarou, we used to cut dozens of products ...

Historian, a tool that allows you to analyze data without special skills Aska Company utilizes a tool called "Historian." "Historian" is an externally produced tool. Aska company has the advantage of in-house production of systems such as CiS and MiS. CiS is a software that manages and analyzes camera inspection data, and MiS is a software that manages and visualizes various molding machine data. We are also working to introduce external systems. That is one of our strengths. The System Department operates the above software because it is a system that requires servers and networks. However, changing a part of ...

MK is also making extensive use of digital technology. Recently, words such as "IoT," "ICT," and "digitalization" have been used in various places. We have begun to offer seminars using IoT and AI and quality assurance using camera inspection data. It has become commonplace within the company to make it possible to view camera inspection results and molding machine status from afar in the form of data and graphs, and this has become quite widespread among workers. Aska Company has been continuing QC circle activities named "MK activities." In these MK activities, people in charge of manufacturing processes frequently use ...

Thank you for reading Market News. Here is the second installment of our Intellectual Property series! This time, we would like to introduce a patent obtained by Aska Company! Production Facility Environment Aska Company uses injection molding machines to produce plastic products. Our factory is a biological clean room, and we provide products to our customers under quality control. Whenever we produce, defective products are bound to occur. Our philosophy is not to find and eliminate defective products but to control the source and keep making good products. We need to have a well-equipped facility environment to continue production based ...

Purpose of 3S "3S" is a collective term for these three elements: Seiri (Sorting), Seiton (Tidying), and Seisou (Cleaning). The purpose of 3S at Aska Company is "to create a pleasant and clean workplace for us." Each individual has a different sense of what a "pleasant and clean workplace" means. Therefore, we share the "basic rules handed down by the Aska Company" to align our values. Specific rules include the following Greetings in a loud voice. Vertical, right angle, no crookedness. White color base color, considerations not to make it dirty. Do not place items directly on the floor. Keep ...

Toward ｍass balance method and ISCC certification ISCC certification is required in the supply chain to manufacture and sell biomass plastic products using the mass balance method. Aska Company has started working with a project team to obtain ISCC certification. We will post more information about the mass balance method and our progress in obtaining ISCC certification on our blog in the future. Current list of environmentally friendly items Carbon Neutral and Biopolyethylene Product Offerings Disposing of plastic generates CO2. Plants grow by absorbing CO2. Using these plants as raw materials for plastics, we can recycle CO2 and reduce CO2 ...