Plants outside Japan
Tohoku Pioneer has speaker plants in Vietnam and Mexico
to supply high quality products to many regions in the world.
- Vietnam
- Mexico
Located in Nomura Industrial Park in Haiphong City, Vietnam, where plants of Japanese-affiliated companies are concentrated, local purchasing is easily available due to good logistic conditions.
Tohoku Pioneer Vietnam plant will continuously advance Monodukuri skills and create new values by high-functionality of factory operation, aiming to produce good products persistently.
- Name of Company
- Tohoku Pioneer (Vietnam) Co,. Ltd.
- President
- Ryosuke Sato
- Foundation
- 2005
- Certification
- ISO9001
ISO14001
IATF16949
Production Engineering & Production System
- Production facility
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- Automation machine developed jointly by Tohoku Pioneer and local facility developer
- In-process quality management due to prediction and prevention of risks
- Facility for in-house manufacturing of key components
- Product and line design
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- Utilization of VA/VE
- Failure prediction (FMEA/DRBFM)
- Joint development of material with parts supplier
- In-house operation from parts development, product design, and to production line design
- Production management
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- AQC system
- Training system
- Continuous Kaizen activity based on lean production concept
Evaluations during Development
In-house design and development
- Sound quality evaluation
- Listening studio (monitor speaker TAD R-1)
- Product performance evaluation
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Simplified anechoic changer
High speed digital processing sound characteristic frequency analysis device
Speaker parameter measurement device (KLIPPEL)
Magnetic flux density measurement device - Parts development evaluation
- High accuracy universal tester
- CAD/CAE
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Solid works (design & development)
Magnetic flux density analysis software
Strength analysis software
3D printer
Reliability Testing
In-house reliability test and product evaluation
- Environmental test device
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Temperature chamber (-70 to 200 Celsius degree)
Humidity and temperature chamber (-40 to 100 Celsius degree, 30 to 98% RH)
Temperature cycle test machine - Vibration test machine
- Drop test machine
- Repetitive operation test machine
- Flame and smoke test machine
About Staff
Vietnam plant has a variety of staff including Japanese who have been involved in Monodukuri in foreign countries and local people who graduated university in Japan with Bachelor of Science. They are engaged in production engineering and production, and this allows a solid technical base and mural communication environment. Further, training of staff is enhanced so that our customer can use our products safely.
Tohoku Pioneer Vietnam has an integrated production system from design and development to mass production.In addition, we are also focusing on the development of materials that are the decisive factor in speaker sound quality and in-house production of diaphragm.Local employees and Japanese expatriates work together to lift each other up through daily manufacturing and deliver a new sound experience like never before to customers all around the world through high QCDD.
Ryosuke Sato, President
Under the supervise of experienced Japanese engineers, Vietnamese engineers plays a main role for local material development and "sound making" based on a various concepts. We have advantages at production Gemba and cooperation with local supplier by locally designing the products to realize timely reaction to our customers' needs and high product quality level.
Ho Ahn, General Manager of Design Department
Safety Training
Plant in Mexico is located in Corinas de Lagos Industrial Park near Bajio region where automobile industries cluster, and this gives us a big logistic advantage. Tohoku Pioneer Mexico plant will continuously advance Monodukuri skills and create new values by high-functionality of factory operation, aiming to produce good products persistently.
- Name of Company
- Tohoku Pioneer de Mexico S.A. de C.V.
- President
- Kazuyoshi Oyama
- Foundation
- 2016
- Certification
- ISO9001
Production Engineering & Production System
- Production facility
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- In-house developed automation machine
- In-process quality management due to prediction and prevention of risks
- Production management
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- AQC system
- Training system
- Continuous Kaizen activity based on lean production concept
About Staff
Our plant produces car speakers for Mexico and North America, and delivery of products to the domestic customers is done by milkrun. Since we are producing close to our customers, we need to keep it in our mind to meet delivery due and to secure high product quality.
For our customers to keep using Pioneer speakers with satisfaction, we will continue building their trust through our Monodukuri.
Kazuyoshi Oyama, President
