I collect matchbooks when I travel and this video checks all the boxes! I love all the specialized machines needed to make such a simple item. Let's hear it for the engineers!
It is quite strange. All other matchbox videos i have seen, makes them different, with the strike surface already printed on the cardboard before the assembly of the box. By applying the striking solution in a serigraphic or gravure print proces on large sheets (before cutting the sheets) they can print in dot patterns, that saves the solution, and makes the strike more easy for the end user. But i admit that there is a risk of fire when putting the matches into the box. Another thing in this video that is odd, is how many times the matches are handled manually from one proces to another. So many people employed, inguess that is a good thing (but very boring jobs), but it makes the products very expensive. Maybe that is possible, because the japanese consumer will pay more for a made in Japan product?
I used tens of thousands of wooden matches like these lighting pilot lights B4 electronic ignition on gas burning equipment decades ago. Still have boxes of them....Great video. A canadian viewer.
Very nice 👍 lots of automation, but still needs quite a few people for quality control and feeding the machines. I guess matches must still be popular in Japan.
That's a good match right there. Someone once told me that automation only occurs in export industries not domestic, also lots of women working there I see. This helps their export industry whilst giving employment to people who otherwise wouldn't have a job, whether they have a lower education etc.
Q: Why was the process of arranging marriage between people is called "Matchmaking"? A: Because it was meant to ignite the love between two people! Q: What match got twin flames, and just kept burning after it is lighted? A: A match made in Heaven! Q: Why was marriage a failure between commoners? A: Because most of them were from matches made in factories. Q: What type of match does Japanese drink? A: "Matcha"! Q: Why was the footballer taken out from the game after the first half? A: He suffered a burnout in the middle of the match!
If this is the everything-going-great music for a match factory, what would be the perfect theme for one just going up in a flaming inferno?... Duel of Fates from Revenge of the Sith maybe?.. oh, right, the opening theme from Terminator 2!!!
I'm always surprised by how much 'waste' there is in the Japanese factories I've seen on RU-vid. By this I mean the amount of handling and moving of semi-finished product from station to station. In my imagination I thought that Japanese factories would be engineered like a car plant with as little 'lost motion' as possible.
Very nice 👍 lots of automation, but still needs quite a few people for quality control and feeding the machines. I guess matches must still be popular in Japan.
