CAD and Product Design Methodology at Hitachi

The I&MSL is a product development lab within the Consumer Products Division. Its role is to create new technology for products as well as to design new kinds of products embodying such technology. Products are manufactured at factories (called works) and such works also have design departments. The latter make small updates to existing designs and lead in the conversion of preliminary designs into manufacturable ones. PERL is one of 9 research labs, others dealing with energy, basic research, mechanical engineering, systems development, microelectronics, design, and "advanced research."