an interdisciplinary atmosphere.I think the first step in seeking to create new value from sharing knowledge among engineers from different fields is to establish a common ground of understanding. This involves taking a lively interest in the duties and technical issues of others, and understanding them. I completely agree with what you’re saying. These inter-disciplinary activities are the first step in interaction. From this point on, I think we need to change our mindset and consider how orga-nizations and individuals interact. Currently, we’ve initiated interdis-ciplinary activities among dierent functions—for example, electrical systems, sensing, and analysis. But I think the participants have to really understand what the others are talking about and not just listen to someone talk. It’s important for Rion to share the technologies held by each division as a whole com-pany. If you’re designing a particle counter, its sensor may involve many technologies that have not been shared with other sections. But we can still share and im-prove on the ideas on technologies related to electronic circuits and digital processing. In one case, we learned that a technology we’d just introduced in our particle counters had been introduced to sound level meters long ago. Still, I think knowl-edge sharing of this kind won’t work if it’s imposed top-down or just left to individuals to gure out. To make it work, we need to consider this se-riously both from the organizational perspective and our perspectives as individuals. It won’t be easy to establish interdisciplinary collaboration in addition to the regular work each division is already responsible for. I often say to my engineering colleagues that survival strength is the key. This has many mean-ings, such as a yearning for new knowledge, being committed both mentally and physically to ongoing research, and taking an active in-terest in things beyond your current boundaries. For example, taking an interest in analog electrical cir-cuits while working on digital signal processing or taking an interest in the needs of our customers despite being tasked with development inside the company. If you dene a boundary for yourself, that’s going to be your limit.What future can you expect by drawing on this survival strength? One key concept often referred to in Rion is connecting. For example, you can connect an existing product to a personal com-puter to produce a solution. You can introduce a product or technology to a field that isn’t immedi-ately relevant to your field so that you can connect to a new, unknown world. My present work involves developing products for vi-sualizing sound by sensing, but I think there is also the possibility of creating new value by linking sound visualization technologies with visualization in a completely dierent eld. Rion oers a diverse lineup of sensor products. We may be able to create new value by placing them in various locations and analyzing the big data obtained. In a way this is just an abstract idea, but I think it would be very interesting if Rion could realize something like that. Personally, I wonder about coming up with something new based on the interaction between particle measurement and sound-related technologies. Our main business target right now is the semiconduc-tor device market, but we will need to consider how to diversify risk in the future. This means that we, the engineers at Rion, should strenu-ously try to discover new elds. That’s true. Perhaps it’s ob-vious, but the key will always be un-derstanding the needs of our cus-tomers through interactions with them and coming up with practical solutions for their needs. We have to dedicate ourselves to solving our customers’ problems. After all, that’s what technology is all about. If our customers tell us that they want to do this or that, we have to be able to make a device or mech-anism they can use. As society diversies, so will customer needs. That means Rion will have more and more things to do. What’s im-portant for me and the company is to transcend boundaries and bring to life ideal products conceived by free-thinking minds.Hiroaki YaguchiParticle Counter Sensor Development Section, Component Technology Development Department, Technical Development Center. Since joining Rion in 2013, he’s been involved in R&D on viable particle counters. Since 2019, he’s devoted his time to the eld of liquid-borne particle counters.gies and Rion’s FutureSESSIONA talk session with our core staff engineersTwo of our core staff engineers active in the fields of sound level measurement and particle counting discuss future technologies and Rion’s future. What are the prospects for the future from the perspective of engineers working in the most advanced fields?11
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