INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING CULTURE

9TH IMAC CONFERENCE PROGRAMM

Date Time Authors Title Adscription
All day
registration
23-Oct
17:00 - 19:00 Steering Committe Session
19:00 Folk Party
9:00 - 9:30 Opening session
Track I - Localizaed globalization, new business models, new research approaches
1
9:30- 10:00 H. Idota , M. Tsuji, 3 T. Bunno, 4
2 An Empirical Analysis of Factors Promoting IT Usage 1
Faculty of Management, Otemon
M.Nakanishi by SMEs: Case of Two SME Clusters in Japan in Japan Gakuin Unversity, 2 Graduate School
of Applied Informatics, University of
Hyogo, 3 School of Management,
Kinki University, 4 Faculty of
Management, Chukyo University,

10:00 - 10:30 Eileen Lübcke Cultural differences in New Media use and New Media University of Bremen, Institute
development: Are we observing a new global culture, a Technology & Education
new form of colonization or the stickiness of local
10:30 - 11:00 Etsuko Tsutsumi A Comparative Study oflt Japanese
? and American Hokkai School of Commerce
Medical Equipment Industries

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00 Dr. Klaus Ruth How to conduct industrial culture research on University of Bremen
‘glocalization’?
24-Oct – Some conceptual considerations on methods,
research objects and objectives –
12:00- 12:30 Nob Harada High efficency electric power generation based on Dept. Electrical Engineering,
Magnetohydrodinamics for global environmental Nagaoka University of Technology
protection

12:30- 14:30
Lunch

Track II - Technology Transfer, New Challenges to Engineering and Manufacturing

14:30 - 15:00 Adoración Rodríguez and Carlos Impact of technology transfer in human resources The Universidad de las Americas, Puebla,
Acosta San Luis Rassini case-study. Mexico

15:00 - 15:30 Iris Ann Martinez and Shin’ichi The Two-Factor Continuum Model for Risk Identification University of Phillipines, University of
Warisawa Tokyo

15:30 - 16-00 Manabu Okada and Akira Kyusojin Geometrical Accuracy of Bearing Surface of Bolt and Nagaoka University of Technology
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20:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner
9:30 - 10.00 Keisuke Hara1, Hiromi Isobe2, Akira Development of a way how to introduce a skilled 1
Japan Science and Technology
Kyusojin3, and Manabu Okada3 workers technique into a machine process Agency, JST Innovation Satellite
Niigata, Nagaoka, 2 Nagano National
College of Technology, 3 Nagaoka
University of Technology
10:00 - 10:30 Shin’ichi Warisawa Study on European-Oriented Motor Vehicle Design Graduate School of Engineering, The
Based on Quantitative Representation of Shape University of Tokyo
10:30 - 11:00 Tetsuro Iyama, Ikuo Tanabe and Development of New Lapping Technique overcoming Nagaoka University of Technology,
25-Oct Akira Kyusojin the handing down the skill Educational affairs section,
Mechanics and Machinery Group
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Next conference proposals, future of IMAC General Discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Factory tour
19:00 - 21:00 Farewell toast