Future Expectations for JMAG and New Innovation by the Nidec Sankyo Corporation
- What would the designers and analysis specialists like to see as part
of JMAG in the future?
Mr. Tsuruta From a designers point of view, JMAG is complicated. The designer could
perform an analysis without stepping away from the design process if very
little knowledge about the mesh was required, if they could specify a few
parameters, and then let JMAG do the rest.
Our customers also frequently ask our designers to meet their requests
in a week, even the next day. Because calculating an analysis with the
finite element method sometimes takes longer than one night, I would like
a fast tool that would give me an estimate of the results.
For analysis specialist, it then comes down to coupled analyses. Designers
are really starting to do a lot of simple analyses, and in the future,
the main simulations requiring an analysis specialists will probably be
coupled analysis. With all of the JMAG modules, the loss, heat, vibrations,
and noise can be analyzed. I believe you can also analyze the control of
a circuit. I would like to also have a fluid analysis. It would give us
the advantage of being able to simulate the heat generated in a motor,
and then investigate how flowing water would cool that motor.
- What kind of new developments are you working on?
Mr. Miyazaki With the ongoing miniaturization of digital devices, we have just announced
our "HB series" optic image stabilization unit that uses a tilt
module for high-level digital cameras and video cameras for cell phones.
We are striving to gain 60% of the world market share and increase our
revenue to ¥1.5 billion by 2012. The optic image stabilizer unit can
be placed on the handlebars of a bicycle without the picture becoming blurred.
The HB series is optimal for live sports and movies. I am sure you have
seen footage filmed from a helicopter. Those images are captured using
a camera platform with a vibration absorption device. This lens actuator
uses the same system. The designer developed the HB series in 3 months
by comparing simulations of 500 different patterns in JMAG without the
help of an analysis specialist. The instruction manual created by the analysis
specialist allows this kind of development process. But, the needs of this
new type of development would not have been possible without JMAG. That
is how valuable of a tool JMAG has become.
HB Series optical image stabilizer unit (prototype)
President: Kazuyoshi Yasukawa
Established: June 18, 1946
Paid-in Capital: ¥35,270,101,264 (as of March 31, 2009)
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Business Outline
The Nidec Sankyo Corporation started in the fast-paced IT and Multimedia
industries before expanding their business to a variety of other industries,
creating a rich product line of various types of motors, such as micro
motors and stepping motors that increase the quality and functionality
of new devices, to card readers and industrial robots.
http://www.nidec-sankyo.co.jp/e/
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1. Implementing JMAG 
