Hirohisa Sakai
Senior Staff Officer
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Japan
Biography
Dr. Sakai received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1986 and joined Toyota Motor Corporation. He has been responsible for the Research & Development and Application of Robots in the Body Production Engineering Division, specifically Fully Automated Assembly Processes. He has a Doctoral Degree (PhD.) in Industrial Engineering from Meiji University in 2010. From 2016 to 2018 he was engaged as Vice President of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. From the beginning of 2022 he was sent on loan to Kawasaki Heavy Industries LTD. for the Robotics division.
Research Interest
Industrial Engineering and robotics