Hello, everyone.
This is Enta.
The other day, I was introduced to someone who works in design at a French company.
That said, I actually got an invitation from a friend of a friend to go out for a meal.
I hear he has a home in Morocco and works in France.
However, I was told that he currently lives in Thailand.
Apparently, he has to return to France once every three months due to visa requirements.
The design was from a world-famous brand, lol.
It was a brand that even someone like me—who doesn't really know much about brands—had heard of lol
Japanese people working around the world are amazing, aren't they!
Since his base is in France, it seems he returns to Nagoya only once a year.
As we were walking and chatting, I was surprised when Ms. N, a former colleague in the slope stabilization industry, called out to me at the Midland Square Building at Nagoya Station!
Who would've thought we'd run into each other here! Globalization has gone so far that the world—and society—is getting smaller and smaller, lol.
From our perspective as Japanese people, we can’t help but think, “People who work around the world are just amazing!”
However, according to those people, if they couldn't find work in Japan, they would have gone abroad.
Not many Japanese people feel this way, do they?
You’re probably thinking, “If you can’t work in Japan, where are you going to go??”, right? That’s what most people would think, lol.
So, when it comes to doing that overseas, it’s a pretty tough hurdle to clear.
And in this globalized world, that means you can work from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.
Gaaaah—but!
We slope contractors can’t just let that happen!
We have to repair the slopes all over Japan!
We're constructing the slope manually in a job site environment without internet or Wi-Fi.
No matter how much globalization advances, we’ll keep making things by hand.
No matter how advanced AI becomes, the legal framework is still put together by hand, and Nozzleman is the one who applies it.
No matter how automated the drilling machine is, the anchor body still has to be inserted by a person.
No matter how much mechanization advances, the pressure plates are still installed by people.
For now, anyway.
We will be automating various processes going forward, but,
As expected, automating fields considered specialized civil engineering—such as slope stabilization—proved extremely difficult, and as a result,
I suppose new construction methods and the like will continue to emerge.
I think we'll see the emergence of things that can be automated or streamlined.
It would be funny if the readers of this blog came up with those ideas, lol.
Even when you look at how times have changed, the manual processes haven't actually changed that much.
That’s because there are tasks that used to be done manually but have been automated and have since disappeared, and
For things that can only be done by hand, the manual process remains the same even now—it’s just that the tools have changed, right?
From a slope engineering perspective, automating that undulating mountain would be quite a challenge, wouldn't it?
For example, centering, tying the bottom reinforcing bars, and assembling formwork—aren’t those tasks done by hand, after all?
I can't even imagine automating this lol
For now, anyway.
Given the times we live in, I’m sure a solution will eventually emerge.
While I’m starting to look forward to the future globalization of the slope engineering industry, I feel like I really need to figure out what to do about the slope right in front of me lol.
We're halfway through the Obon holiday.
Get plenty of rest, have plenty of fun, and come back ready to tackle slope protection work after the Obon holiday.EnjoyLet's do it!!
See you later.
P.S.: Speaking of bolt scales, did you know there’s a special storage case for them?
Please contact the distributor.
