As part of the Academic Industrial Cooperation program implemented by the Saudi Cultural Mission in Japan under the auspices of the Ministry of Higher Education, Toshiba Corporation hosted a group of Saudi male and female students studying in Japan on the Custodian of the Holy Mosque Scholarship Program at the company’s factory in Kawasaki.
The company’s engineers briefed the students on the company’s wind turbine manufacturing techniques, as well as its research and development program and quality control and safety testing programs.
The students were also briefed on all the different stages of the production line for wind turbines that are used in electrical power plants via hydrothermal power generators. They are also used in nuclear reactors. The production process consists of four main stages, i.e, design and planning, collection, testing, and transport. The power generating units that have been manufactured since the establishment of the company in 1903 have generated approximately 170,000,000 kilowatts of energy, and the production capacity of the plant ranges from 15 to 20 units per year.
The students were provided insight into Toshiba’s operations and investments in various fields, such as electronics and electricity, communications and information technology, environment and renewable energy (especially solar energy and mega solar energy), and electrical power generation.
Oshima Kooichira, general manager of Toshiba in the Gulf region, expressed his delight regarding the hosting of Saudi students, and welcomed them to join Toshiba after their graduation to work on infrastructure and power generation projects in the Kingdom and in the Gulf.
The Saudi cultural attaché in Japan, Essam Amanullah Bukhari, also thanked officials at Toshiba for the distinguished academic program. He stressed the fact that Saudi youth, with help from God and the continuous support of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman, are qualified and ready to lead such production and development projects, and to work with Toshiba to transfer, foster, and implement such technologies for future use in the Kingdom.
Toshiba Corporation has 39 research and development centers worldwide and spent approximately $320 billion on research last year.
That amounts to 5.2% of its revenue. Toshiba recorded 2,483 patents in America in 2011, making the company the first in the world in terms of number of patents.
Scholarship students get to learn Toshiba’s techniques
