Sustainability

Promoting Youth Development

Hokkaido Area Operation and Hokkaido Fuji Electric Co.,Ltd. held a joint science class at Sapporo Chuo Elementary School on December 11. Employees from both companies served as instructors, teaching students to build motors with the aim of providing a fun manufacturing experience. By the end, most of the students were able to get their coils to turn. The participating students found the event meaningful, saying that it inspired them to take interest in manufacturing and that they now have a good understanding of how amotor works.
"Children are our future! We want to continue activities like these to support them!" (One employee's voice)

Fuji Electric IT Solutions Co., Ltd. held science classes at two elementary schools in Hino City, Tokyo from March 12 to 15, 2024. Hino City is actively promoting the development of an ICT environment in its schools. We provide support such as helping to introduce tablets and other devices and developing networks. In the science classes, we collaborated with Fuji Electric’s SDGs Promotion Department to conduct programming experiments without using computers or tablets. The children greatly enjoyed the classes, and we deepened our relationships of trust with the teachers.

On January and February, 2023, the Kawasaki Factory held science classes for 157 sixth graders at Higashi-Ikuta Elementary School and Oshima Elementary School, which are in Kawasaki City. The Kawasaki Factory has been offering these science classes since 2017 as a way to spark children’s interest in manufacturing through learning about science. This year’s classes were on wind power, which the Kawasaki Factory is closely related to. New employees, who are younger and closer to the children in age, hosted the class, conducting experiments using turbines made from milk cartons and motors. The turbines were used for experiments to demonstrate things such as how electricity is generated using wind, and how the amount of electricity generated varies depending on certain conditions. Afterward, the students shared their thoughts on the lesson, commenting “Now I became good at experimenting and considering,” and “It made me more interested in science, which I was not good at.”

For two days from August 7, 2024, we held training for 19 teachers from elementary and junior high schools in Hino City, Tokyo, at the Human Resources Development Center (Tokyo Factory Area). This training was sponsored by the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, and its intent was to give teachers a deeper understanding of the concept of corporate activities and human resource development initiatives. In addition to introducing our business and products and leading a factory tour, we also gave the participants hands-on trainings on manufacturing, quality control, safety initiatives, etc.

As part of our CSR activities, on November 8, 2021, the Matsumoto Factory, sufficiently taking measures to prevent COVID-19 infection, invited 49 third-year elementary school students from Tsukama Elementary School in Matsumoto City to a factory tour. Power semiconductors, the core product of Matsumoto Factory, are almost never seen in everyday life. The students on the tour listened intently to the explanations provided by our employees and learned the important role played by these semiconductors that are used in familiar products, such as Shinkansen trains, cars, computers and consumer electronics. The students seemed very impressed. We also showed them the power semiconductor production process and cogeneration (combined heat and power) equipment. This was a valuable opportunity for the students to gain a greater understanding of the Matsumoto Factory.

On January 12, 2025,Fuji Electric (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. held a STEM education* event in cooperation with a local junior high school. About 40 of our employees and a total of 1,000 students and teachers joined the event, which included an exhibition, activities, and talk sessions. Going forward, we will continue our activities to support children, who are our future.

Fuji Electric Technica Co., Ltd. cosponsored a community outreach project by Otemae Takamatsu Junior High School in Takamatsu City in the Shikoku Area, in 2024. The aim of the project is to produce a gift catalog of specialty products from Kagawa Prefecture. It is the first project in Japan where junior high school students are taking the lead in all processes, including requesting cooperation from local companies. We also supported the project by purchasing the gift catalog and distributing copies to our business partners. We hope to continue contributing to creating learning opportunities for students and to revitalizing local communities.

As part of the social contribution activities commemorating Fuji Electric’s 100th anniversary in 2023, we Fuji Electric Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. are supporting the development of the next generation by providing courses on the Japanese language, quality and manufacturing, and electrical equipment at two local technical colleges. In some of the courses, our employees serve as instructors, sharing their work knowledge and information about our products. First, we held a two-day course on quality (ISO) from September 20, 2022, which was very popular with the students. "We hope that these courses will help them to gain knowledge and skills they can use in their future jobs."