Laboratories at the School / Graduate School of Engineering

Under the bland slogan of Panasonic Group, “Live Your Best”, our department provides a setting that combines with the potentials of Panasonic and Osaka University, including its research information, technologies, personnel, and facilities, and thereby makes a place for innovation that creates social changing new values. Furthermore, by combining research in a diverse range of fields, including engineering, science, medicine, economics, and psychology, through exchanges and collaboration, our department creates synergistic effects to enable top-level research and personnel development for both parties.

This Institute conducts collaborative research with the aim of building and strengthening the digitized fundamental technologies needed in a data-driven society. The digitization of the experience and intuition of skilled engineers, which is one of the fundamental technologies, requires the acquisition of data collection and analysis techniques, including experiments and simulations. We are promoting cross-faculty researches and developments with related laboratories in the Graduate School of Engineering and affiliated laboratories such as the Joining and Welding Reserch Institute and Cybermedia Center.

As a base for joint research between Osaka University and Komatsu, we are engaged in improving the productivity of construction & production sites, to realizes automation, remoteness, and efficiency. In addition to utilizing ICT, we will collaborate with various laboratories in a wide range of fields such as control, image processing, sensors, simulation, and other data analysis by utilizing the viewpoints and ideas unique to universities, aiming for speedy establishment.

Always DAIKIN between “People” and “Air”

DAIKIN Collaboration Research Institute, which was founded as the former chemical research section of DAIKIN Industries, Ltd. in 2006, was established as a collaborative research project in Osaka University and has obtained many research results until now.
From early 2016, it aims to create fundamental technologies for the innovation of existing products or systems with the collaboration of the air conditioner section and other sections.
In order to continue creating a more comfortable living environment and earth environment, our company DAIKIN Industries now accelerates a challenge to next generation technologies, keeping our eyes wide open into the future from the viewpoint of people living there.

In our research alliance laboratory, fused state-of-the-art of Osaka University technology and accumulated technology of Nippon Shokubai, is working on the creation of new products and technologies that are innovative and competitive.

Our mission is to make a contribution to the stability and growth of the society for the next 100 years.
To aim at the transformation to co-creation, Osaka University and NTN are planning and carrying out research with open innovation.
Our institute is based on the “”N-type strategy.””
The strategy is made up a technology push vector and a vision-driven vector.

In ULVAC-OSAKA University Joint Research laboratory for Future Technology, we perform the various studies based on the vacuum technology widely from the preservation of pharmaceutical products to film deposition equipments for the flat-panel display, semiconductor devices and LED devices. Through a framework of joint research with Osaka University, we work for the advanced personnel development, as well as the contribution to development of the science in the medical and engineering fields. We hope to establish networks formed by the interchange of mutual researchers.

In the evolution of the society and our lifestyles with the progress of science and technology, we will pursue the infinite ability of advanced recyclable steels to guarantee the safety and security in our life, on the representations of lightweight vehicles, high-rise buildings, and energy transportation materials.
We will develop a new multi-physics and multi-scale characterization techniques, resulting in the understanding of a dynamic deformation mechanism in steels, including the time dependent phenomenon. It is a key for us to make a good relationship among several kinds of　laboratories in material science divisions.

Metabolomics is the study on investigating comprehensively biological phenomena in vivo by analyzing exhauslive various metabolites generated by life activities. It is useful for elucidating complex systems such as disease prediction, drug discovery support, and food improvement based on scientific evidence. Our laboratories are collaborating with various professors at Osaka University, mainly in the field of metabolomics. Furthermore, since fiscal year 2021, Shimadzu has started the REACH Project, in which Shimadzu employees are dispatched as doctoral students, with the aim of further accelerating collaboration and early social implementation of research results.

This research alliance laboratory was established in September 2021 to evaluate and develop human resources in biotechnology. Osaka University and Persol Tempstaff Corporation will work together to develop an evaluation method based on a job analysis and career visualization, to contribute to high-level human resources in the field of biotechnology.