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The Road to the World's Best Technical Olympics (Part 3) "The Relevance of Diverse Competitions and Normal Business Operations"

I once had an interview with a newspaper reporter who asked, "How do you apply the results of the WorldSkills competition to your business?" Hikaru Kaita was momentarily at a loss for an answer and looked to me (the public relations manager) for help with a wry smile. So I quickly and honestly told the interviewer, "Unfortunately, the competition and my regular work don't always match.

This is because the competition items for the WorldSkills competition (printing category) are diverse. Of course, offset printing processes that are normally performed in the normal course of business are included, but most of them are not performed in the normal course of business. Even in offset printing-related competitions, while the usual materials used are mainly thick paper (for packages), the competitions use thin paper, oil-based inks, and ink-based inks.UVThere are also differences in inks and other factors.

For these non-normal competition items, training can be conducted in-house if the company has the equipment, but if the company does not have the equipment, we may go to other companies to borrow their machines for training.

Currently, the main in-house efforts areCCM(computer color matching) and offset printing simulators. In the morning, before normal business operations begin30minutes to take advantage of thisCCMtraining.

CCMis simply put, ink kneading of special colors. In offset printing, colors are usually printed using process colorCMYKInk is used for printing. However, we often receive requests for colors that are difficult to express with process colors. Gold, silver, fluorescent, and other highly saturated colors are difficult to reproduce with process colors.CCMto create a special color that is not available in process colors.

In practice, a spatula is used to prepare the required multiple inks in grams. The ink is mixed according to a predetermined ratio. The kneaded ink is then applied to paper and matched to color samples.

Our3Each of the three printing plants hasCCMEquipment andCCMDedicated personnel are deployed to the offset factory.CCMThe veteran employee in charge of the “color magician” (a term used by news programs to refer to a "magician of color") is a craftsman of such skill that he has been featured on news programs. Kaita is an offset press operator, so his regular duties includeCCMThe “magician of color” is a person who is not always in charge of the coloring of the room. Therefore, under the guidance of a "color magician",CCMI am working hard to improve my skills in In case you are wondering, it was a competitive event in the national competition, so I am focusing on improving my speed as well as accuracy.

this (something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or ideas expressed by the speaker)CCMAs for the "how to" and "how to do" skills, although they are not usually performed in the normal course of business, it is good to have them as skills in order to broaden the scope of one's work. It may be useful in the future in the course of your work.

On the other hand, the offset printing simulator is a completely unknown area, as it was originally a system that was not available in the company and was introduced for the WorldSkills competition. As proof of this, he even said, "To be honest, it was very difficult. What determines the winners and losers at the World Championships are competition items that are not touched in the normal course of business, such as the simulators. In the next issue, we will introduce training for simulators and other competitions that are unique to the World Championships. (To be continued)