Conduct activities to raise awareness of automatic control equipment by distributing teaching materials for children (e.g. picture books and videos)

Booklets and other materials related to automation, etc. using SMC's automatic control equipment were produced for elementary school students.

Conduct children's workshops to raise awareness of SMC while allowing them to get hands-on experience with automatic control equipment

SMC will conduct workshops for children to raise awareness of SMC while allowing them to get hands-on experience with automatic control equipment.

Spread automatic control technology and industry knowledge by collaborating with a variety of educational groups (conducting seminars, providing products, sponsoring robotic contests, etc.)

We conduct courses and seminars and accept factory visits, provide cut samples, training kits and products, sponsor robotic contests, etc. for industrial high school students, technical college students, and university and post-graduate students for the purpose of achieving the following: ① build relationships with local society, schools and various organizations, ② raise awareness of SMC, ③ secure manpower resources for the future, and ④ develop SMC fans and support groups such as users, customers, shareholders, etc. for the future.

Provide scholarships and loans for further studies in institutions of higher education (universities and graduate schools), and exempt the return of loan monies for those who join SMC

Provide economic assistance through scholarships to engineering students (in science and technology) who wish to enroll in institutions of higher education (universities and graduate schools), and an environment that lets them focus on their studies.

Establish standards for talent management by occupation on a global scale, and aim to develop and make use of talents within the group by developing manpower through talent management (manufacturing, engineering, sales, management)

Create standards (rules) for talent acquisition according to standard occupational group category.

Make use of talent management in order to develop human resources that can play an active role with the corporation on a global scale.

SMC will organize global contests to commend employees and their departments that have achieved significant improvements in divisions according to a common evaluation standard to lead to improvements in motivation, retention rates, and technical capabilities

Based on common evaluation standards for each department and depending on years of employee experience within the company, we will commend employees who have achieved outstanding accomplishments within each group company, and their departments.