Message from Director Naohiko Soma

Experience of having a lifetime of nine deaths

When I was in the 5th grade of elementary school, I had time to make a calendar with two 7-sided pyramids on drawing paper. It seems easy to make, and a little trick is required, but I taught my classmates who couldn’t make it well, “Even if you can’t make it well, you can use it as it is by making creases and making some ingenuity.” The teacher and others said, “I often come up with things that aren’t in the textbook!” And not limited to this, “I often come up with ideas myself, even though I’m not taught by anyone.” I remember being told. It may be only good memories that I remember the contents (laughs).

I’ve always liked and was good at thinking about things that people can’t think of.
When I got a job, I wanted to do “development” in the future, so I joined a resin processing manufacturer that had decided to enter the local Iwate prefecture.

However, as is often the case, the work I was involved in after joining the company was mass production. By so-called “stabilizing production,” it was a job unrelated to development, such as measures to reduce losses and avoid troubles. There was a time when that kind of experience became longer, and at one point my desire to “develop” gradually diminished and I was giving up.
About 10 years have passed since I became a member of society, and I had to undergo surgery when I was 35 years old, but I had the experience of being one step closer to dying due to a mistake during the surgery. After a lifetime of nine deaths, I had to take a month off from work after surgery, giving me time to think about my life.

At that time, I feel that my thoughts on how to live in the future have changed significantly.
“I was like having reached the end of my life, and I received an additional life. I began to think,” How can I return this “life”, no, this “gratitude” to the world? ” I did.

“Combination” of WIRED’s development technology

The company I was working for at that time was a company that mass-produced films, but at that time there was a new film development theme.

Until then, I had experience in mass production of rolls to rolls, so I was able to get involved in the development of production technology for the first time because of that experience.
Since the company’s philosophy was to “serve society through the company,” I made use of my experience and made use of my strengths in my favorite field of “development,” and “the world through the work of the company.” I started to work on a new job with the goal of “developing something useful for.”
A few years later, the development theme of “laser processing” came out. I was transferred from the conventional development department and was involved in the technological development of “laser processing” on film.

After that, I met various people, and with the support of them, I went through the establishment of WIRED, and now I am here.
When I think about it now, the film mass production experience, development experience, and laser experience that I have cultivated in my career become WIRED’s “laser processing” and “roll to roll”, a “combination” technology that other companies do not do. I think they are connected.

What we want to achieve with wired in the future

I want to develop technology that benefits people

WIRED is currently advancing the “combination” technology of “laser processing” and “roll to roll” every day, but it is said that new technology is being born by the “combination” of the experience of newly added members. I feel it.

The possibilities are endless when technology and technology are combined. I myself am interested in things other than lasers every day and try to look at people and things. By setting up antennas in all directions with the image that the combination of each element becomes a sphere, I think that the range and fields of development will expand, and it will become a required technology and contribute to the world.

From now on, I would like to consolidate the technological developments so far to make them “technologies that benefit people.”
To put it in a big way, in order to return the “gratitude” that I received, I would like to develop technology to create an environment that makes it easier for people to live and have global peace.