HIDA Journal 2014 AUTUMN No.5

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HIDA JOURNAL2Examples of HIDA’s Training Programs for Human Resource DevelopmentFor those companies considering advancing into overseas markets, the development of local human resources could be said to be an indispensable task for succeeding with such moves. HIDA supports companies in advancing into overseas markets through two programs: one in which it invites engineers to Japan to hold training in Japan and another in which it dispatches experts to local regions to provide guidance.Here we will introduce case examples of companies that have been involved in the development of local human resources by making use of these programs.To start, we will introduce KEDC Co., Ltd., which has its head office located in Sendai City and which is involved in metal surface treatment such as plating and ultra-precision machining as an example for our training programs in Japan.KEDC Co., Ltd. established Kedica Philippines Corporation in the First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP) in the Province of Batangas, Philippines in 2003. Afterwards, in FY2006 and FY2007 HIDA (AOTS at the time, hereafter referred to as HIDA) received two trainees from Kedica Philippines Corporation, as the dispatching company, via its training programs in Japan, through which it developed these local human resources. At present, this same company is making use of our training programs in Japan as part of the Program for Carbon Reduction Technology Promotion* that was newly started in FY2014, and is carrying out training to lead to improvements in quality and reductions in energy consumption by means of improving the production processes at its plant in the Philippines. As such, we recently interviewed with the person in charge of human resources and the person in charge of providing instruction onsite about the particulars concerning the use of the program this fiscal year, how the training has been going, activities the invited trainees have been involved in since returning home to date, and more.Head office: 3-20 Akedori, Izumi-ku, Sendai-shi, MiyagiEstablished: 1946Capital: JPY 48 millionEmployees: 140 (as of April 2014)Description of business:General surface treatment manufacturer that handles surface treatment like plating and ultra-precision machiningAiming to Refine Inspection Techniques and Cut CostsKEDC Co., Ltd.How are the people who underwent training in Japan in the past doing now?One of the two people quit several years after returning home for family reasons, but the other person is playing an active role as a key person onsite. One thing that was helpful during the training by HIDA was that they were able to learn Japanese. The Japanese staff members posted here locally are not necessarily strong English speakers, and so having a local staff member who can speak Japanese to a certain extent is a strong point, and immensely helpful; even more so than the skills they were taught. When it comes to HIDA, the company has been making use of its expert dispatch program (JODC at the time, hereafter referred to as HIDA) since prior to 2006. The company has been using this in conjunction with the training programs in Japan, and I had personally been providing guidance onsite until March 2014 as an expert.Please tell us about the course of events leading up to recently carrying out training in Japan.In the local region, the demands of our client Japanese companies when it comes to quality and delivery times have been growing stricter and stricter. Moreover, since competition is growing fiercer the need to cut costs has risen higher than ever before. Enormous quantities of water are used for cleaning and as plating solution in the plating process, and this water must constantly be kept at a suitable temperature. As such, things like the water for hot water washing and some of the plating liquid must constantly be kept at a suitable temperature. Since vast quantities of light oil must be burned to heat this, the fuel prices for this account for a major share of our costs. Therefore, we recently decided to hold training with the primary goal being to have the trainees learn techniques for optimizing the temperature and ingredient in the plating solution in the aim of cutting down on the amount of light oil used.What specifically made up the contents of the training?Two trainees recently underwent training. One of them (Ms. Joyce Urquiola Abril) primarily learned about adjusting the ingredients in the plating solution, while the other (Ms. Madel Francisco Malana) mainly studied inspection techniques for products that had been plated. The two trainees studied an overview of the management techniques necessary for the plating process, with this including many elements that directly tied in to saving energy in order to cut costs. For the plating solution, the ingredients and required temperature vary depending on the materials of the metal being plated. For example, with nickel this must constantly be kept around 90°C, while for tin it must be kept around 15 - 20°C. Since a variety of materials are used depending on what the customer ordered, the optimal ingredients and temperature

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