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About Culture Japan
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Smart Doll Production Jobs
Wise Doll production is carried out in Japan – physique frames are injection molded in Yamagata and outer shell components casted in Katsushika Tokyo. Some apparel and wig items are created in Korea which has a rich BJD (Ball Jointed Doll) culture.
Intelligent Doll production is fascinating since it is our very first time undertaking it. There is so considerably to find out, invent, develop and expand/boost upon.
The BJD is still a little niche market place and it really is our job to bring this kind of art and inspiration to the rest of the planet – and we have been carrying out so – about 80% of our clients are initial time style doll owners.
Inventory, Purchase Order Management and Sales Forecasting
They may all sound boring but managing these three things is essential for any organization.
This job also includes managing relationships with vendors who make elements for us and anyone operating on this group can expect 80% of their time to be devoted to preserving our good quality standards.
Vendor’s are generally great at performing their specialist jobs but the level of high quality is set by their clientele expectations – for this purpose it is usually difficult in educating and changing the culture of vendors to function with our high good quality needs.
Wise Doll Production
The Intelligent Doll production group takes all the components and assembles everything together – but ahead of this is done, parts need to be rechecked (even right after QA has gone by way of them, the flash requirements to be reduce and a load of other processes need to be total just before the physique is ready to be packed.
Apparel Improvement
Although there are several doll seamstresses out there who can make high good quality apparel in small quantities, there are not numerous locations in the planet that are able to mass make miniature garments at high high quality.
In order to speed up the idea > marketplace ready process, 1 of my targets is to boost headcount of our apparel team in Tokyo and setup apparel studios in a variety of locations across Japan
Licensing
Sensible Doll is the best platform for character license improvement for anime, games and Hollywood motion pictures too. In the very near future we strategy to start producing Smart Doll’s of numerous characters and will be needing people to handle not only the licensing agreements and supervision of prototypes at every stage by the licence holder, but also handle the production that will be involved in recreating the visual appear and feel of the character in miniature form.
Product Development
Product improvement is also accomplished in our Tokyo offices. Collectively with our own 3D modeling group and 3D printers, we rely heavily on 3D fast prototyping strategies to get our merchandise to industry within brief cycles.
Right after prototype creation, this team then has to work out how and where the item is going to be mass developed, how it will be QC’ed, what the packaging will appear like and how its made and so forth.
This team is also accountable for items like making slush or injection molds, procuring elements and material, generating paint masks for the faceup (painting of the face), improvement of the eyes which entails considering ink saturation and how light is bent through the acrylic depending on the eye radius and distance of print from eye surface and so forth.
Quality Manage
80% of our time is taken up by Top quality Control. All components that arrive in our workplace in Tokyo are checked and exactly where achievable we attempt to repair something that can be done in home – if not we send them back to the vendors and give them a spanking.
Fulfillment & Customer Service
At the moment most of our orders are taken online utilizing Shopify and often people come to the workplace to choose up. As we are nonetheless new to all of this, much of this procedure is nevertheless extremely manual and includes printing picking lists, invoices, packing slips and so on.
Up till lately we employed shared e-mail to manage client queries which was a nightmare but now we are utilizing Zendesk which enables us to collaboratively manage buyer queries and maintain our sanity at the exact same time.
Robotics
The Automated version of Wise Doll is now identified as Intelligent Doll Plus. Robotics development is a prohibitively high-priced – we could simply spend all our money flow on its production but thankfully have more sense than money so we focus on the "Manual" version which is already on the industry and creating a self sustainable company for us.
Possessing said that, I do devote resources working on this as a side project and will comprehensive it.
3D Engineering
Our 3D Engineers are equipped with abilities to use a variety of 3D application such as ZBrush, SolidWorks, Autocad, Rhinoceros, 3D Max, Maya etc and are totally versed in issues relating to preparing the data for machining molds or for the printers we use in the office.
Our engineers have a excellent understanding about the numerous types of manufacture and material properties which enables them to design and style although taking into account numerous variables such as injection molding slide, ejector pin, warpage, shrinkage issues and so on.
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Intelligent Doll
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Style & Mold Preparation
1. The software program we use to sculpt the body is a 3D software program package referred to as ZBrush.
two. ZBrush data is then imported into 3D Max for a variety of tweaks and to make confident everything moves and fits collectively.
3. We utilized two distinct varieties of CAD packages for the frame – SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER.
four. The face is initially mirrored but then manually tweaked so that its not unnaturally symmetrical.
five. We use a software called Netfabb to prepare the information for printing.
six. Back then, I used a 3D printing service in Tokyo referred to as Digimode – all I required to do was to submit my STL information and a few days later they would send back the components.
7. Digimode employed the Envisiontec Ultra rapid prototyping machine to print the components.
8. The bits that you see attached to the bottom of the bust are known as Assistance Structures which need to have to be snapped off and sanded down.
9. This is the 1st time I see my creation as a entire ^o^ The subsequent step is discussed in the following section "Soft Vinyl Mold Preparation."
10. Now that the physique shell information is comprehensive, we need to have to tweak the internal frame data primarily based on findings from our 3D printouts.
11. We used a 3D printer that printed in nylon as it was the optimum material necessary to see how joints rubbed against and fitted with each and every other.
12. We tweak the data based on the 3D printouts and repeat the procedure a zillion instances until we really feel the style is optimum.
13. The frame is going to be injection molded so we require to prepare the mold data. This method was way more complex than I imagined and involved information of material flow, cooling levels, wrinkling, warpage, mold temperature, injection pressure and so forth and so on – all that and much more just to know exactly where to place the pieces in the mold and where to attach the runner gates.
14. After a even though, we managed to get our personal 3D printer which we began to use for production (assessment here). Just like ahead of, we prepare some STL data of the component to be printed and load it into the printer computer software called PreForm.
15. Preparation of the printer by pouring in the clear resin.
16. An ultraviolet laser beams up from inside the printer and hits the bottom of the tank to cure the resin.
17. This hand can take among 2 and 6 hours depending on the layer thickness setting.
18. The printed components are then removed from the Develop Platform.
19. To use this printout for our doll production, I cut off the Help Structures and then sand down the surface to prepare it for the subsequent step which is Casting. My goal is to develop a copper mold utilized for mass production of the soft vinyl shell.
20. Photo together with Miyata Noriaki who I created the frame with.
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The Generating of Wise Doll
Image by Danny Choo
Design & Mold Preparation
The software program we use to sculpt the physique is a 3D software package known as ZBrush.
ZBrush data is then imported into 3D Max for a variety of tweaks and to make positive everything moves and fits collectively.
We utilized two distinct types of CAD packages for the frame – SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER.
The face is initially mirrored but then manually tweaked so that its not unnaturally symmetrical.
We use a software program named Netfabb to prepare the information for printing.
Back then, I utilised a 3D printing service in Tokyo known as Digimode – all I required to do was to submit my STL data and a few days later they would send back the parts.
Digimode used the Envisiontec Ultra rapid prototyping machine to print the components.
The bits that you see attached to the bottom of the bust are known as Assistance Structures which need to have to be snapped off and sanded down.
This is the first time I see my creation as a entire ^o^ The next step is discussed in the following section "Soft Vinyl Mold Preparation."
Now that the body shell information is full, we need to have to tweak the internal frame information based on findings from our 3D printouts.
We used a 3D printer that printed in nylon as it was the optimum material necessary to see how joints rubbed against and fitted with every single other.
We tweak the data primarily based on the 3D printouts and repeat the method a zillion times till we really feel the design is optimum.
The frame is going to be injection molded so we require to prepare the mold data. This approach was way much more complex than I imagined and involved information of material flow, cooling levels, wrinkling, warpage, mold temperature, injection pressure and so forth and so on – all that and far more just to know where to put the pieces in the mold and where to attach the runner gates.
Right after a while, we managed to get our personal 3D printer which we started to use for production (assessment here). Just like ahead of, we prepare some STL information of the component to be printed and load it into the printer computer software known as PreForm.
Preparation of the printer by pouring in the clear resin.
An ultraviolet laser beams up from inside the printer and hits the bottom of the tank to remedy the resin.
This hand can take in between two and six hours depending on the layer thickness setting.
The printed parts are then removed from the Construct Platform.
To use this printout for our doll production, I reduce off the Assistance Structures and then sand down the surface to prepare it for the subsequent step which is Casting. My purpose is to generate a copper mold utilised for mass production of the soft vinyl shell.
Photo collectively with Miyata Noriaki who I created the frame with.
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