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| Japan Metal Stamping Association supports various
efforts to be promoted by its members, such as enhancement of
management infrastructure, improvement in technology, making
high value-added stamped products, establishment of safe operation,
support to internationalization and globalization, training
engineers, and is actively developing many services to realize
advanced metal stamping. |
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| *Promotion of improvement in structure of companies,
based on Small-to-Medium Size Enterprise Modernization
Promotion Law |
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To cope up with the drastic changes in economic circumstances
and environment around the small-to-medium size enterprises
and for enhancement of international competitiveness, the association
promotes modernization of facilities, development of new products
and technology, and optimization of management scale and production
methods, and thus has achieved enormous results.
National tax system and subsidies are available for advancing
these services, and each company participating in structural
improvement has advanced the modernization of its facilities,
significantly raised its productivity, and remarkably improved
its constitution.
Furthermore, the association is actively engaged in shortening
the working hours of employees and improvement in their working
environment. |
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| *Comply to requests about policies, and petition
to authorities concerned |
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| The association submits petitions to administrative authorities
concerned about designation of machine types for granting of
subsidies to modernize facilities needed by the metal stamping
industry, actions on tax system, financial policy, and to obtain
system support. |
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| *Promotion of preventive measures against stamping-concerned
accidents |
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| To prevent stamping-concerned accidents and to promote
safety operation, the association holds "National Meeting
for Safety in Stamping" and promotes expensive preventive
measures against accidents, while encouraging participation
in "Inspection General Insurance System" and safety
diagnosis using computers. |
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| *Promotion of international cooperation |
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| The association promotes international cooperation, paying
attention to support internationalization. The association takes
part in "International Metal Stamping Council" consisting
of 5 countries, Japan, U.S.A., England, Germany, and France.
Each country hosts "International Metal Stamping Conference"
every three years in turn. Furthermore, the association promotes
international cooperation by sending inspection delegates to
foreign countries and receiving overseas delegates to Japan. |
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| *Promotion of cooperation between members and mutual
study |
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| To promote the management constitution of member corporations,
the association holds company observation and manager exchange
meetings for information exchange and mutual study. In addition,
the association holds study meetings, information and opinion
exchange meetings, and factory observation by National Youth
Communication and Consultation Committee centered on young managers. |
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| *Education and training services |
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| To foster talented persons and develop abilities, the association
provides on-job training about management and technology, with
the cooperation of Industry Associations (Cooperative Associations)
in each local area. |
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To deal with the change in industrial structure and management
environment, the association stresses the research to enhance
the infrastructure of metal stamping industry, such as by
improvement in technology and working environment, and preventive
measures against stamping-concerned accident.
Recently, the association is engaged in the following research
works.
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Development of safe and automatic metal
stamping systems (entrusted by Japan Small Business Corporation) |
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Survey and research on the products manufactured
by metal stamping instead of other industries (entrusted
by The Materials Process Technology Center) |
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Labor casualty survey, safety training
and guidance, and creation of safety measure manual (entrusted
by the Ministry of Labor) |
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| Besides "Monthly Survey on Metal Stamping" (statistics
approved by the Management and Coordination Agency) and "Labor
Casualty Survey", the association conducts survey toward
promotion of improvement in the enterprise structure, to demand
policy guidance, the survey useful for association's work and
members, and survey and collection of material information.
Results of such survey are provided to members whenever necessary,
and materials are offered for public perusal. |
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| *Research Meeting of Metal Stamping Technology |
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| The association holds research meetings including seminars
and discussions with talented research workers, aiming at transformation
of metal stamping companies into suggestion- type companies,
improvement of value added and profitability, development of
new processing methods, securement of safety and environment,
education of engineers, and support for internationalization. |
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| *Public relations and services |
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| The association performs public relations and services
concerning the following points. |
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Contents of policies towards the metal
stamping industry, economy trend of industry, and production
trend in main customer companies. |
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Activities of Japan Metal Stamping Association |
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Provision of technological support and
management, offering such materials for public perusal,
and copying such materials. |
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Provision of overseas information. |
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Issuance of various reports and materials
as necessary, and their delivery. |
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Delivery of membership list. |
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Delivery of technical paper "Metal
Stamping". |
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Provision of various information other
than above, as necessary (by FAX, etc.) |
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