【No.215】Why do you buy our products? (3)
This has increased the need to create new products with ‘limited in-house human and material resources.
【No.215】なぜ皆さんは自社の製品を買って下さるのか (3)
そのため、『自社内の限られた人的・物的資源』で新製品を作る必要性が高まってきました。
Our approach to the knife polishing process and leather sheath production has been introduced, but at any rate, to tackle something new from the ground up, it takes a considerable amount of time just to master the basic techniques.
Since our skills and knowledge are still limited, we are having a more difficult time developing new products than ever before, because we are unable to even “make a list of candidates” when we try to judge whether a finish or specification is good or bad based on our intuition, as we have done in the past.
(to be continued)
包丁の研磨工程や革鞘製作への取り組みはご紹介の通りですが、何せ新しいことに一から取り組むには、基礎技術を習得するだけでもかなりの時間がかかります。
技術も知識もまだまだ乏しいため、今までのように直感で仕上げや仕様の良しあしを判断しようとも、『そのための候補をあげること』すらままならず、今まで以上に新製品開発に苦労しているというのが本音のところです。
(次回に続く)

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