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IBM Yamato Facility

IBM Yamato Facility is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand IBM Yamato Facility rather than just read about it. In short: IBM Yamato Facility is located in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is where IBM's research and development activities were done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and completed in 1985.

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Reference excerpt

IBM Yamato Facility is located in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is where IBM's research and development activities were done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and completed in 1985. In July 2012, all IBM research and development functions completed moving to IBM Toyosu Facility, Tokyo. The last IBM-related organizations left Yamato around September 2012, and the facility is no longer associated with IBM. IBM Yamato Facility houses IBM's research and development centers in Japan. Its address is 1623-14, Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its buildings were completed in 1985.

IBM Yamato Development Laboratory

History In the 1960s, IBM started small-scale development activities in Japan, using RPQ procedure at its Special Engineering department. In 1972, IBM Japan Development Laboratory (JDL) was established in Tokyo. JDL was moved to the IBM Fujisawa Plant site in 1975, becoming IBM Fujisawa Development Laboratory (FDL). FDL was subsequently moved to the Yamato site In 1985, becoming IBM Yamato Development Laboratory (usually called Yamato Lab, not YDL), and the IBM Tokyo Programming Center (VM/Office System, Banking System, Retail System, etc.) at Kawasaki also moved here. In 1993, the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory was also moved to Yamato. When IBM sold its Personal Computer Division to Lenovo in 2005, Yamato Lab's ThinkPad departments were separated, but remained at the Yamato site.

Development Lab Directors The Development Lab Directors (or those who were in charge of Development & Manufacturing) were:

Edward V. Hoffler (1971–1974) Nobuo Mii (1974–1977) Keiichiro Meigo Hajime Watabe Toshio Yasui (1987–1991) Kiyoji Ishida Tsutomu Maruyama Yukako Uchinaga (2004–2007) Yoshinori Sakaue (2007–2008) Kazushi Kuse (2009- )

Development project areas Project areas that were at the IBM Yamato Facility according to IBM Japan include: server systems, storage systems, embedded hardware, communication systems, printers, retail store systems, application systems, telecommunication, Internet related, pervasive computing, finance industry systems, customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and technical and consulting services about hardware and software.

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, also known as TRL, was established in 1983, as IBM's first research center in Asia. It was initially located in Tokyo, but moved to the Yamato site in 1993. It is involved in the basic researches, in association with IBM's other research centers at Yorktown Heights, New York (Thomas J. Watson Research Center); Zurich, Switzerland; etc. In 2008, there are 200 researchers.

See also IBM IBM Japan, Ltd. (in Japanese) IBM Hakozaki Facility (Marketing)

References

External links IBM Japan's Facilities: R&D Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese) IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with IBM Yamato Facility

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about IBM Yamato Facility ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of IBM Yamato Facility

In research: IBM Yamato Facility appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses IBM Yamato Facility in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: IBM Yamato Facility is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1985 establishments in Japan, 2012 disestablishments in Japan, Buildings and structures completed in 1985, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for IBM Yamato Facility outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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