Manufacturing Support Activities

MISUMI Group is engaged in various manufacturing support activities, including support for students who will take on the next generation of manufacturing.

Manufacturing Support for Student Groups

In the “MISUMI Student Manufacturing Support” initiative, open invitation applications are accepted from a wide range of student groups that take on challenges in manufacturing at universities, technical colleges, etc. providing MISUMI products free of charge.
Support to more than 2,200 student groups have been provided since the program began in FY2008.

Since FY 2018, we have been supporting the activities of SAKURA Tempesta, a team of junior and senior high school students competing in the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC), an international robotics competition. The team has been remarkably successful, winning various awards in five consecutive competitions since its first year of operation and qualifying for the world competition three times. The team also provides many junior high and high school students with opportunities to learn about engineering and promotes the appeal of manufacturing.

One of the Supported Groups in FY2023

Ohkubo Lab., Tokyo University of Technology

MISUMI Student Manufacturing Support
(FY2023: 110 groups in total)

Team name: Tokyo University of Technology
Ohkubo Lab.

Comment from a student

“We are working toward the practical application of a solar-pumped laser, which generates laser light using only sunlight without the use of electricity. We are grateful for the support from the MISUMI Student Manufacturing Support Program, mainly in the form of tools for machining the cavity that produces the effect of collecting and compressing light. The solar energy has no risk of being exhausted, and it has almost no impact on the environment, such as carbon dioxide emissions. To make solar-pumped lasers practical, we aim to update the world's highest solar power conversion efficiency and realize a sustainable society.”

Activities to convey the appeal of manufacturing

Summer Vacation Manufacturing Class

Junior/ Highschool team
SAKURA Tempesta

Summer vacation manufacturing class

In August 2019, "MISUMI x SAKURA Tempesta Summer Vacation Manufacturing Class" for junior and senior high school students was held in order to foster manufacturing human resources. Participants endeavored in assembling machines and games using MISUMI’s full-fledged components. After the event, many students said that they became “interested in engineering” and experienced the enjoyment of manufacturing.

Exhibiting MISUMI Art Collection

Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

MISUMI Group has loaned works from the MISUMI Art Collection 22 times under special arrangements with museums holding contemporary American art exhibitions. The MISUMI Art Collection focuses on contemporary American art and is corporate art with high acclaim for its uniqueness and foresightedness. Proponents of American contemporary art aimed to achieve independence from European influences to freely pursue the potential of art. That spirit coincides with MISUMI Group’s corporate attitude of perpetually pursuing innovation. Going forward, we plan to circulate artworks on loan in response to exhibition requests from museums in other areas as well.

※: Picture: Exhibit scene at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2002)

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