Indoor 3D map
Indoor 3D map

While listening to the clients’
problems, contribute to productivity enhancement
with the latest technology

Indoor 3D map
Matsuyama, Yuki
Joined KKE in 2016
Graduated from Graduate School of Engineering,
Osaka University,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Realizing productivity enhancement in the building industry and manufacturing industry

Realizing productivity enhancement in the building industry and manufacturing industry

NavVis, which I am in charge of, is a service to provide indoor 3D maps. KKE formed a business alliance with NavVis, a German venture company, and develops business as a kind of a sole agent in Japan. NavVis takes photographs and measures positions while moving a measuring machine equipped with a high-resolution digital camera and a high-accuracy laser scanner at a place where you want to make a 3D map. The 3D map made in this way can be viewed using a web browser. It is capable of navigating a vast and structurally complicated building or a building without drawings for a user far away from it as though he/she was on site. If it is introduced to maintenance operation for transportation, electric power and other social infrastructure, we can expect some benefits from it; for instance, it will contribute as a countermeasure against aging of workers and also facilitate succession of technique to the young. In that event, experienced workers will be able to do maintenance operation by looking at the 3D map in the office near the site instead of taking a trip to the forefront, while sometimes teaching the knowhow to young staffs.

Expressing heartfelt empathy with the customer’s issues

Expressing heartfelt empathy with the customer’s issues

My work ranges from marketing and sales for finding new customers of NavVis to the measurement for 3D map creation, to system development for creation of custom-tailored screen. Although it is hard to take responsibility for sales, measurement and development altogether, I find it quite useful. In an attempt to cultivate an undeveloped market of 3D map, we are still in the process of finding out what the customers seek from 3D map. I believe that only by having heartfelt empathy with the customer’s problem in such a situation, we can see what kind of 3D map and its usage the customers really want. It is simply fun to be able to see different kinds of facilities that otherwise I would rarely have a chance to visit, and this is another reason why I like going to the clients’ sites. The clients’ sites that I am putting a lot of effort into now are bridges. I am intending to build a new framework for maintenance operation of bridges by utilizing 3D maps of their bottom parts.

SCHEDULE

My ordinary day

  • 6:00 a.m.

    Get up, take my child to the nursery

  • 8:00 a.m.

    Arrive at work, check e-mails and respond

  • 9:00 a.m.

    System development

  • 11:00 a.m.

    Prepare proposals

  • 12:00 noon

    Lunch

  • 1:00 p.m.

    Travel

  • 2:00 p.m.

    Start measuring

  • 5:00 p.m.

    Finish measuring, travel back to the office

  • 6:00 p.m.

    Leave office

Linking the technology seeds to social needs

At present, I am working to expand the sale of NavVis in a team with two superior members. Although my opinion is accepted in some times and not accepted at other times by the team members, I have a feeling that they always respect what I say. At KKE, not only the two team members but other senior and superior members talk to young staffs earnestly. There is also an atmosphere where we can say what we want to say other than about NavVis related matters. What I am anxious to try at KKE in the future is a work utilizing the diversity of KKE. If I can link the seeds the KKE’s engineers are searching for to the social needs, I believe that we will be able to create unforeseen new values. My goal is to become a manager of professionals in various fields and to play a leading part to become the center of such movement.