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Activity
Activities
- Public & Members Relations
- Innovation of production system, and survey on market and production status
- Standardization
- Application of IT (Information Technology)
- Other Activities
- Liaison meetings
Public & Members Relations
The public & members relations committee covers the activities of relations to the members as well as the public, and the scope of publication and education.
- 1) Relations to the public and the members
- To make available the information about JARI and its activities, and the data of production statistics through Home Page of Internet.
- To provide members with the limited information at the web site for members.
- Rolling Stock Industries ----- reports on activities and events of JARI, statistic data on the industries, news and views or opinions for the industries, published quarterly.
- Rolling Stock Technology ----- technical reports on rolling stock newly built, published twice a year.
- Annual Report on Manufacturing Rolling Stock and Related Equipment
----- statistic data of cars manufactured and sales amount of each sector, published annually.
- Data Book for Specification of Rolling Stock
----- specifications and dimensional data of rolling stock newly manufactured, published occasionally.
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| Publications |
- To hold seminars to help improve professional skills of employees and managers of member enterprises.
- To arrange group visits to maintenance yards with new facilities and to new railway cars in trial or initial service running in collaboration with railway operators.
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| Seminar |
A visit to a trial running EMU |
- 4) Providing information and documents related to railway and its industries
- To timely provide members with information coming from the Railway Bureau (administrative organ) or the related bodies.
- To have documents and publications accumulate, if necessary, in electronic Data Base, and make them available to members.
Innovation of production system, and survey on market and production status
The production committee brings together member companies to study the common subjects for promoting the innovation of production system, and conducts the survey on rolling stock market and current status of rolling stock production.
- 1) Improvement of productivity
- To study the common subjects concerning production management, production engineering and quality control for the purpose of improving productivity.
- To have opportunities to exchange engineering information through mutual plant visits and meetings.
- 2) Survey on market and status of production
- To make a periodical survey on current status of production and backlog of orders.
- To carry out researches on demands for rolling stock mainly in domestic market.
- These data to appear in the publication “Rolling Stock Industries” or Home Pages.
Standardization
JARI is responsible for making drafts to amend or to make the rolling stock related provisions in JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard), and keeping own standard “RIS“ ( Rolling Stock Industries Standard by JARI ) updated. In addition, in the current trend of globalization JARI is required to monitor the activities of the international bodies such as IEC and ISO for the scope of rolling stock and to take necessary actions to the bodies and persons concerned.
The standardization committee covers the scope of works above mentioned, and in order to meet the extending of its works it have two subcommittees, the domestic standardization and the overseas standardization subcommittees. Other than the makers’ members, the railway operators’ members, staff of the Railway Bureau (administrative organ), and the authorities in academic fields are invited to join the activities of those committees.
- To promote standardization for rolling stock as described above.
- To make standard specifications for metros and/or commuters with modularized components.
- To examine the compatibility of JIS to the International Standards, IEC and ISO in cooperation with the joint committee organized with the related bodies for that purpose.
- 2) Information service for industrial standards
- To make JIS, RIS and other industrial standards related to rolling stock available to members at the office.
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| A view of meeting of the Committee |
Rolling stock Industry Standard
(RIS) published by JARI |
Application of IT (Information Technology)
The IT committee promotes the application of IT in the rolling stock industries.
- 1) Extending application of IT in the activities of JARI
- To have the data, documents and reports output through the activities convert to electronic data.
- To take advantage of IT in the various activities of JARI, enhancing their efficiency.
- 2) Research on EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
- To study the development of EDI or SCM (Supply Chain Management) in other industries, including automobile manufacturing, shipbuilding, manufacturing of electric equipment or operating of railway.
- To pursue the suitable way to have a common platform of EDI/SCM for the rolling stock industries.
Other Activities
JARI has other committees with regard to purchasing, awarding and environment, which bring together members, respectively, at the time when it’s necessary, to collect the opinions and make recommendation to the board.
Liaison meetings
Liaison meetings are held regularly with railway operators, the Railway Bureau (administrative organ) and other organizations related to railway. Hearing the opinions from the other organizations on the activities of JARI and exchanging information each other at the meetings give some helpful things to the activities of JARI.
In addition to those meetings, JARI has the meetings with the members from the Japan branches of overseas companies, in which expressing the each other’s views on world wide business or Japanese market help foster the mutual understanding between Japanese and overseas companies, and also provide them with up-to-date information for both domestic and overseas markets.
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