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In this paper following the first report, the authors describe the nature of human behavior and the organizational perspective in the technology from the 1940s. The organization which is the leading figure of the production engineering faced a change in and confusion with the development of the production engineering. The organization which selected and adopted the new ways of thinking, the behavior pattern and the administration sytem had evolved. Since 1940, the management has continued to be systematically addressed by technological management strategies in place for production quality control. The authors describe the organizations that need to do so.

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The British innovative engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) had developed the atmospheric railway system and serviced commercially in South West in England during the half a year in 1847 to 1848. The driving force of the railway system was based on a vacuum force produced by pressure difference between vacuum and atmospheric pressures. The system was environmental friendly because of no-smoke, no-noise, and no-spew. In the present paper, the authors introduce a similar but different railway system which runs by compressed air pressure. This project has been conducted as monodzukuri education for students of Soma High School, Fukushima. The small scale model of the compressed air railway system has produced and tested. The driving force of the system is generated by expansion force of and at a flat tube constrained tightly by two rollers. The students were devoted to study the mechanism and performance of the system. The railway system has a potential to be used in public transportation under horizontal and inclined surface and subsurface ways in future.

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This report describes the aim and target of the technical section on Brunel's spirit for promoting innovative monodzukuri. At first, a summary of activities of the fore technical section on the history and engineering of Brunels (started on November 1, 2003 and ended on 31 October 2008) has been described. The activities of the technical section were practically achieved during six years. In 2006, the 200-year anniversary of Brunel's birth was well done. The atmospheric railway model was made with high school students. Brunel's wax mannequin was also made for promoting familiarization of young Brunel as well. In the new technical section, five subjects have been scoped: publicity, designing, carrying over, application, and PDCAs. These are aim to promote the monodzukuri spirit for Japanese young engineers and students through studying Brunel's works. The technical section have be re-run on 1^<st> April 2010 for five years by 31^<st> March 2015.

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