Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., the world's largest maker of quartz crystal devices, has long experience with the global standardization of the International Electrotechnical Commission, or IEC.
In 1985 NDK Chairman & CEO Toshiaki Takeuchi joined the IEC's Technological Committee 49 for the first time. Since then, Takeuchi has been a global leader in the standardization of crystal devices, which are used in smart phones, cars, computers, communication infrastructure, game consoles and many other digital appliances.
"We make components used in circuitry boards, which have many different components. Therefore, size and shape are very important. If they are wrong, the engineers will be in big trouble," he said, explaining why standardization is so important for his company.