'I will make it! --- The World's Best Craftsman, Masayuki Okano
This is a book by Masayuki Okano, owner of a Japanese small family-run factory with only six employees, who makes the impossible possible.
Author | Masayuki Okano |
Publisher | Chukei Publishing Company |
ISBN | 978 - 4806117605 |
Category | Business |
Publication | January, 2006 |
Estimated length | 222P |
Size | 146 × 106 mm |
When you were a child, you might have thought, "I hate an injection because it hurts." On the day before getting a vaccination shot, every child wished there were a painless needle.In fact, this childhood dream is about to come true with his company.But you might be still skeptic. In theory, if a needle were as thin and smooth as the mosquito's proboscis, an injection should be painless for most people. It is also strong enough not to snap or bend when it is pushed into the skin, while it is as fine as a hair. A representative of Terumo Corporation in charge of developing a painless needle brought the drawings to him. It took one and a half years to develop the needle.
Okano wasted material worth more than \1 million. With his labor expenses included, the total cost should exceed 100 million yen. However, this would be a big business if the commercialization succeeds. A needle is a consumable article. If it becomes available across the world, the profits would be enormous. Best of all, even children would be able to receive an injection with a smile on their face. This is the most valuable aspect of this invention.
===== Table of Contents =====
Chapter 1: Painless injection needle
Chapter 2: Technique that minimized cellular phones
Chapter 3: From a fighter aircraft to a microphone
Chapter 4: Son of a die maker
Chapter 5: Learn skills and how to do business through playing
Chapter 6: Making things like jazz
Chapter 7: Rebellious spirit as the source of your energy
Chapter 8: "Let me use the factory from 5 o'clock!"
Chapter 9: Jobs that everybody hates to do and can't do
Chapter 10: Never steal jobs from competitors
Chapter 11: 0.8 yen per piece
Chapter 12:"Hey, old-daddy, give me the company!"
Chapter 13:"I fired all the employees"
Chapter 14: You overlook the change of time when you are always chasing money
Chapter 15: Sprinkling bait
Chapter 16: Don't judge people by their titles. Personality matters
Chapter 17: Respect "the man who first dug a well"
Chapter 18: Must have the right knowledge to tell a diamond from a stone
Chapter 19: Never do the same job for over three years."Always look ahead"
Chapter 20: Listen to the workers on site and keep up with changes
Chapter 21: Take your employees to developing countries
Chapter 22: Dinosaurs fall down easily, but ants won't
Chapter 23: Do something different and hard
Chapter 24: Do the jobs that major companies don't
Chapter 25: Like a hunter to survive
Chapter 26: Pursue your art, even at the expense of your wife
Chapter 27: Learn skills from failures
About the Author
Masayuki Okano was born on February 14, 1933 in Tokyo. After graduating from Mukojima Kosei National Elementary School, he joined his father's die manufacturing factory in 1945. He began to learn the skills in making dies from his father around the age of 20, and started to develop and sell mass production plants at the age of 30.
In 1972, he succeeded to his father's business, and established Okano Industrial Corporation, assuming the position of "representative employee." Pursuing his motto, "Do the job that nobody else can do," he has produced dies for a wide range of industries from home appliances to PC devices and medical equipment. His fame further spread with the production of a lithium ion battery case, a technique that directly contributed to the downsizing of cellular phones. Recently he has developed a "painless injection needle" with a hole of 60 microns in diameter. Now he is busy in putting this invention into practical use.
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