Panasonic History
The year in which Panasonic announced its agreement with Tesla Motors to build the worlds first Gigafactory in Storey County, NV.
2014
The Administrative Supervisor for Formation.
Who is Shelby Mitchel?
The class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other.
What is Magnetism?
They type of current output by an electrical battery.
What is Direct Current?
The acronym 'HPC' stands for this.
What is High Performance Culture?
The city in which Panasonic was founded in 1918.
What is Fukushima, Osaka, Japan?
The name of the production manager covering Formation/VI-A Shift.
Who is Michael Ellis?
The combining capacity of an atom of a given element, determined by the number of electrons in it's outermost shell.
What is valence?
The name of a type of battery that is used once and then discarded.
The acronym 'JIB' stands for this.
What is a Job Instruction Breakdown?
The company which was founded by Matsushita's Brother-In-Law that served as a subcontractor for Panasonic components after WWII.
What is Sanyo?
The Vice President of Operational Excellence.
Who is Walt Miller?
A circuit in which current is constant throughout each resistive load.
What is a series circuit?
The type of battery that has had the most impact on the advancement of electronics as recognized by the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
What is a Lithium-ion Battery?
The acronym TWI stands for this.
What is Training Within Industry?
The brand name used by Panasonic beginning in 1965 that sold audio equipment.
What is Technics?
The Director of Continuous Improvement.
Who is Tonie Wycoff?
A type of circuit in which the total calculated resistance is derivative.
What is a Parallel Circuit?
The reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered materials with layered structures, such as Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids in batteries.
What is Intercalation?
The acronym 'PETR' stands for this.
What is Process Engineering Training Run?
A Japanese company known for their TR-55 transistor radio that Matsushita considered the "arch rival" of Panasonic.
What is Sony?
The Vice President of Quality.
A material with electrical conductivity which can be modified by adding impurities (doping) between that of a conductor and an insulator.
What is a semiconductor?
A type of chemical reaction caused when a battery is connected to an external electric load causing negatively charged electrons to flow through the circuit and reach the positive terminal; how a battery makes electricity.
What is a reduction–oxidation, or "redox" reaction?
The acronym 'SOP' stands for both of these concepts.
What is Standard Operating Proceedure AND Start of Production?