TV-1: NISSAN Oppama Plant & NHK Spring Yokohama Plant
Date:
Oct. 27 (Fri.) 8:30-15:30 (approx 7 hours)
Price:
JPY 3,000 per person (Lunch included)
TV-2: NISSAN Oppama Plant
Date:
Oct. 27 (Fri.) 8:30-12:30 (approx 4 hours)
Price:
JPY 1,000 per person (Lunch not included)
NISSAN Oppama Plant
The Oppama Plant is one of Nissan's three major vehicle manufacturing plants in Japan. Beginning operation in 1961, this plant, located some 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Tokyo, was Japan's first full-scale integrated vehicle assembly plant. In 1970 it was the first domestic plant to introduce welding robots; later the Oppama Plant became a pioneer of flexible manufacturing systems. These innovations have led to its position today as a leader in automated manufacturing.
Located next to the plant is the Oppama Wharf, a major shipping centre capable of transporting some 80,000 vehicles per month, both from Oppama and other Nissan plants.
The greater plant area also includes the Nissan Research Centre, home to Nissan's basic research activities, and the Vehicle Testing Department which operates the Oppama Proving Ground, a test track within the plant area.
NHK Spring Yokohama Plant
With a history of more than six decades, NHK Spring is today one of the world's leading manufacturers of springs. The growth of motorisation created an ideal environment and enabled NHK Spring to achieve sustained growth and build a solid position in the industry. Today NHK Spring supplies high-quality products to many automobile manufacturers in Japan, North and South America, Europe and Asia.
In the 1970s, NHK Spring launched a bold initiative to develop new business activities. Now this effort is steadily bearing fruit in the form of new products, including parts for information and communications equipment. Together with its 23 domestic and 23 overseas group companies, NHK Spring will continue, in the 21st century, to contribute to global development by challenging the world of possibilities.
The Yokohama plant, main manufacturing site of the Suspension Spring Division, was completed in 1987 with the basic concept of clean environment and high productivity. The plant obtained a certification of ISO14001 in 1997 for the first time in the spring industries, and has been continuously working to develop more environmentally friendly spring manufacturing processes.
TV-3: The Earth Simulator Centre (ESC) & National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Date:
Oct. 27 (Fri.) 9:00-15:30 (approx 6.5 hours)
Price:
JPY 3,000 per person (Lunch included)
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokohama Institute for Earth Science
The Earth Simulator Centre (ESC)
The Earth Simulator aims to build a harmonious relationship between the Earth and its inhabitants. This supercomputer is one of the world's most powerful machines and works on a variety of research and development projects in collaboration with many public and industrial organisations to explore the current and future challenges facing mankind. It can predict what is likely to happen in the future by investigating global environmental problems, such as global warming, unusual atmospheric phenomena and tectonic activities with a high degree of precise simulation. The system is configured with 640 units of high performance nodes which employ eight vector processors and 16 Gbytes of high speed memory (8GFLOPS/CPU), interconnected via a high speed crossbar network with a data transfer rate of 12.3 Gbytes/s in 2 ways.
The Earth Simulator is used to study the organising systems of the whole earth and can investigate how mass consumption, including automobiles, airplanes, electrical devices and chemical products will influence the future of the global environment.
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Yokosuka Research Park
The development of road transport, while bringing greater convenience to all, has led to significant problems such as traffic accidents and environmental pollution. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) addresses many of the problems inherent in existing transport systems.
NICT is working on a number of aspects of ITS, such as a millimetre-wave vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, an optical fibre wireless roadto- vehicle communication system, 'software radio', and mobile video transmission.
Since 1998, NICT has been pursuing research on vehicle-to-vehicle and ROF (Radio on Fibre) road-to vehicle communication systems under a joint project involving 20 organisations and various private-sector interests. The research is geared towards development of a feasible system and associated standards.
Tour Programme
- Integrated millimetre-wave radar communication system for safe operational support
- Ad-hoc moving-picture communications technology for advanced disaster radio on VHF band.
Option: Kirin Brewery Tour 15:30-17:30 (approx 2 hours)
As an additional option to Technical Tours TV-1 and TV-3, you will be able to enjoy a visit to Kirin Brewery. Established in 1907, the Kirin Beer is one of the most famous beer companies in Japan. At the brewery, you will follow the process of how Kirin Beer is made. At the end of the visit, free beer tasting awaits you.
The following technical tours are part of the EVS-22 Symposium, concurrently being held at Yokohama. As a FISITA 2006 participant, you are welcome to join these tours.
TV-4: JARI and Nikko 2-day Tour
From Yokohama 08:00 Oct 29 (Sun) Arr. 17:30 Oct 30 (Mon) Tokyo (arrive Yokohama approx. 18.30)
Price:
JPY 35,000 per person (double occupancy), JPY 38,000 per person (single occupancy)
Leave Yokohama for Nikko, en route making a technical visit. Overnight in Nikko.
2 lunches and 1 breakfast included.
Day 1: Yokohama - Nikko
Visit to Japan Automobile Research Institute (Tsukuba City), overnight at a hotel in Nikko.
Day 2: Nikko - Tokyo / Yokohama
Sightseeing in Nikko, famous as a World Heritage site.
TV-5: JARI 1-day Tour
Date:
October 29 (Sun) 8:00-20:00 approx.
Price:
JPY 5,500 per person
Visits to Japan Automobile Research Institute (Tsukuba City)
Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI)
Tour Highlights: Fuel Cell Performance Evaluation Centre, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle Safety Evaluation Facility (Hy-SEF) and new test course. Hy-SEF is the world's first indoor fire test facility for FCVs.
To book your place/s please use the registration form in the Preliminary Programme or book on-line.