Solving Four Challenges! "Karu Garu* Joints"
Company:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Japan Inc.
Country: Japan
Category: Electronics
The manufacturing industry has challenges such as reducing CO2 emissions from the product design stage to waste treatment, measures against decreased supply stability to soar raw material prices and production automation.
New design joint parts to fix the opening and closing parts of corrugated cardboard boxes to transport products haven’t been developed for many years, although there is room for improvement in production automation, material usage, transportation efficiency, etc.
Therefore, we developed joint parts called "Karu Garu Joints" to solve the above challenges using in-house component design technology for multifunction devices and printers.
Four Challenges Resolved
① Supports automation of assembly
② Reduction of CO2 emissions from production and distribution
③ Reduced loading space during transportation of joints(67% reduction compared to previous joints)
④ Shape making it easy to understand how to remove and reducing the force required for removal.
* ”Karu Garu” in Japanese means light and easy.