Front-Loading DesignOne-Stop Development1. Front-Loading DesignWith a focus on carefully surveying customer needs and development processes, this method identifies development issues and risks, to the greatest extent possible, at the initial stage of product development. By implementing counter-measures in advance, we do our utmost to reduce the need to redo work at intermediate stages. This contributes to increased development efficiency and reduced costs.2. One-Stop DevelopmentThis approach involves simultaneously advancing the devel-opment of new materials and the development of processes for mass production. In the Research Center, large-scale testing and research facilities similar to the production facil-ities in our plants are used to collect various data necessary System The Research Center (Saitama Prefecture) of the Research & Development Division is the core base for the Group’s R&D activities. The center has high-precision testing and analysis equipment and a clean room, as well as the same equipment that is actually used by customers in semiconductor-related fields. Moreover, we have installed large-scale pilot coaters that closely resemble plant mass-production facilities, build-ing systems for a smooth flow from R&D to mass produc-tion. The center includes the Product Research Department, which develops products directly connected to our current business, and the New Materials Research Department, which conducts R&D with a focus on the future. In addition, in April 2022 we established the Unexplored Technology Research Department and the Innovation Promotion Department. About 200 researchers are engaged in research on these themes. In addition, the Nano-Science & Technology Center, our R&D base in the U.S., focuses on the development of leading-edge materials, such as CNTs and artificial muscles, with the objective of establishing Policy We are pursuing R&D to ensure that our focus themes make a real contribution to strengthening the competitiveness of existing businesses and creating new products and busi-nesses. LINTEC is working to improve development effi-ciency and speed based on two key phrases: “front-loading design” and “one-stop development.” In addition, through coordination between the Research Center and the Business Administration Division, we have established the stage-gate system as an R&D scheme. Under this scheme, we are building a process that ensures results centered on medium- to long-term themes.technologies and products that will drive new businesses for the Group.for mass production and to improve the speed of develop-ment leading up to mass production.3. Stage-Gate SystemThis is an internal process that divides the development status of R&D themes into five stages, and rigorously exam-ines and determines whether to advance a theme to the next stage or halt development. The aim is to prevent develop-ment from backtracking and to bring each theme to fruition steadily and quickly.Stage-Gate SystemR&D with market dialogue-driven styleProduct Research Unexplored Technology Research Dept.Study and R&D of new materials Innovation Promotion DepartmentOptimization of overall R&D activities and creation of mechanisms for new business Open innovation through external collaborationIndustry–government–academia cooperationDevelopment of leading-edge materialsNano-Science & Technology Center (U.S.)24Medium-Term StrategiesR&D and Intellectual Property StrategyMarketsR&D with insight into the futureResearch CenterNew Materials Research Dept.Dept.and technologiescreationR&D
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