In this IIL aviation webinar, Ko Ogasawara will briefly introduce the relationship between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) global business and the insurance community. He will talk about the overview of MHI Launch Services, Japan’s current rocket, H-IIA, next generation rocket, H3, and key essence of MHI’s quality management.

Description

MHI Group is a conglomerate based in Tokyo globally offering diverse products from engineering solutions, electrical equipment and gas turbines to rocket launch services.

MHI is also a leading company of the space industry in Japan, being involved in development and manufacturing of liquid fuelled rockets for nearly half a century. MHI has been the launch vehicle manufacturer and the launch services provider since 2007. H-IIA and H-IIB launch vehicles have delivered a number of missions for Japanese and international customers and the International Space Station. MHI’s greatest strength is its reliability to provide successful and on-time launches, proven by its latest launch record.

MHI is currently developing, in cooperation with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the H3 Launch Vehicle, as the successor to H-IIA and H-IIB with aims to achieve competitive pricing, greater flexibility for customers and further improving levels of reliability by utilizing technology heritage established by H-IIA and H-IIB.

Answers to why MHI is capable of offering high reliability to the industry lie in its unique quality management established through experience of providing H-IIA and H-IIB launch services. Examples of such quality management include repeated training of engineers and launch operators and two-sigma control of manufacturing trend data. Finally, MHI shares with the audience what MHI values in dealing with technical difficulty for better services through explaining a technical challenge recently experienced.

Speaker

Dr Ko Ogasawara, Vice President & Senior Chief Engineer, Space Systems Division, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd

Gained an insight into

• An overview of MHI Launch Services, including the development status of H3 Launch Vehicle
• Examples of MHI’s quality management for heavy lift launch vehicle system
• How MHI overcame anomalies with its own policy of quality management