Yamaha Motor India has announced the appointment of Hideki Fujiwara, the managing director of Yamaha Motor Research & Development India (YMRI) from February 1, 2020. Being a part of the Yamaha Motor Company, Japan, for the past 30 years, he has played a significant role as the project chief of engine design of YZF-R1 (2004, 2007 and 2009) and as the project leader for YZF-R1 (2015).
Hideki Fujiwara is coming in place of Yasuo Ishihara. The change in the management at Yamaha Motor India comes after Ishihara completed his tenure at the company. YMRI has confirmed that appointment of Fujiwara would further strengthen Yamaha’s research wing in India.
Fujiwara is well-known for his contributions in the designing of 4 stroke Engine Parts, New Engine Layout for production models like YZF-R1 in 2004, YZF-R1 in 2007 and YZF-R1 in 2009. The other key projects handled by him at YMC, Japan are the Cost Innovation project (2009-2012) and Advanced Development of Engine and Vehicle Control (2014-2019).
He has also been a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015-2019) teaching Mechanical Systems Science. He has been a lecturer of ‘Motorcycle Basics course’ at the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan as well.
His assignments with YMRI for the coming years will include Concurrent engineering, Cost innovation to Value creation along with developing skills of local staffs.
Fujiwara is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Nara College, Japan.