JAITA co-developed one technology with one fastener manufacturer in Kanto. This technology is to place a micro mechanical unit incorporating with the mechanical structure and electronic circuit into a bolt. It can detect wirelessly the tightening and damage of a bolt after it is tightened.

JAITA stated that the technology will be applied to the important components installed in aircrafts, automobiles, and precision parts. The advancement of the management of fastener tightening is also expectable in the future.

Since 2006 JAITA has been working on the research of "a system that is able to detect the tightening and damage of a bolt" and has been trying to detect the damages of fasteners installed on satellites outside the atmosphere directly from the earth. JAITA embedded the axial force detector (MEMS) in a bolt, which could thus exam the loading of a bolt. If any detected bolt showing abnormal situations, the detector can transfer the info immediately onto the detector on a satellite and the staff on the earth can determine which bolt appears abnormal and get the related abnormal data through watching the monitor.

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