Bücher von Satoru Goto

This study explores the relationship between product meaning and product service systems (PSSs), in the context of innovation of meaning (IoM). Existing IoM studies have focused on intended meaning (as defined in new product development) and ignored the received meaning that users reconstruct throughout an entire product life cycle. The process by which a user assigns meaning to things can be not only static but also dynamic. This study focuses on PSSs as comprising integrated products and contexts offered by services, and analyses the case of Japan¿s largest manufacturer of ankle¿foot orthoses, which is an assistive product. The results show that PSSs help users reconstruct meanings in dynamic cognitive processes; PSSs also help users leverage metaphors that contribute to consistency between products and services. Additionally, the positive emotion elicited from users by novel meanings can help augment profits by promoting the sale of related products and services.

Robot arms have been developing since 1960's, and those are widely used in industrial factories such as welding, painting, assembly, transportation, etc. Nowadays, the robot arms are indispensable for automation of factories. Moreover, applications of the robot arms are not limited to the industrial factory but expanded to living space or outer space. The robot arm is an integrated technology, and its technological elements are actuators, sensors, mechanism, control and system, etc.

This monograph presents the fundamentals as well as the application techniques of servo control systems, which are a key element of Mechatronics. The industrial applications and problems of Mechatronic Servo System Control are demonstrated as well as its theoretical and applicable solutions.