42 Facts About Mabuchi Motor

1.

Mabuchi Motor Company is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Applications for Mabuchi brushed DC electric motors and brushless electric motors include power drills, lawn mowers, vibrating cell phones and video game controllers, vibrators, vacuum cleaners, toy cars and planes, CD, DVD and Blu-ray players, digital cameras, computer printers, electric fans, electric razors, washing machines, electric tooth brushes, and blow dryers.

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Mabuchi Motor is managed by a board of directors which includes two outside directors.

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4.

Mabuchi Motor serves as the chief operating officer of Niigata Power Systems Co.

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5.

Mabuchi Motor served as the senior executive officer, managing executive officer and executive officer of IHI Corporation.

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6.

Mabuchi Motor served as a director of IHI Corporation starting in April 2010.

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7.

Mabuchi Motor was a partner of Harada, Uchida, and Sugiyama Law Office since January 1995.

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8.

Mabuchi Motor has been a representative at CPA Motohashi Nobutaka Office since July 2008.

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9.

Mabuchi Motor gathered his friends and scoured the burned ruins for metal and copper wire to use in making simple DC motors as educational tools for use in elementary schools.

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10.

The Mabuchi Motor brothers seized on this development as an opportunity to break away from their exclusive relationship with the toy manufacturer.

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11.

At 20 yen per motor, the Mabuchi brothers had matched the price of an old wind-up toy.

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12.

In March 1959, with the advent of portable, cordless tape recorders, the Mabuchi Motor brothers changed the company's name to Tokyo Science Co.

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13.

Mabuchi Motor fired the ringleaders and asked anyone who knew about the theft and had failed to inform him to apologize straight away and promise to mend their ways.

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14.

Mabuchi Motor brothers were among the first Japanese executives to catch on to the international trend of developing production capacity overseas.

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15.

In March 1965, Mabuchi Motor moved its Japanese factory from a flood-prone area to a safe and large piece of land secured in Matsudo, Chiba just outside Tokyo.

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16.

Mabuchi Motor was oversupplied with a variety of machines and parts.

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17.

Mabuchi Motor called this the "custom made" problem because it could not keep a back stock of custom spec orders.

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18.

The Mabuchi brothers developed the motor, model RD-180, and it was smaller and more responsive than the electric shaver company's previous motor.

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19.

In September 1975, a geared motor went on the market, allowing Mabuchi to enter the vending machine market and other markets.

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20.

Mabuchi Motor went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 1986 and was listed as a member of the second section.

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21.

In June 1988, Mabuchi Motor's listing rose from the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange to the first section.

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22.

In December 2001, Mabuchi Motor Company received the first Porter Prize awarded to corporations and businesses that have implemented superior strategies in innovation.

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23.

Also in 2002, Mabuchi Motor started to co-sponsor events such as the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest and the Colleges of Technology Robot Contest, which contribute to the training of young technicians and development of science and technology.

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24.

Year later, Mabuchi Motor developed compact high-torque motors for automotive products.

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25.

Mabuchi Motor contributes to regional grassroots environmental protection activities as well.

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26.

In February 2010, Mabuchi Motor received the Corporate Activity Award from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in recognition of its pioneering corporate activities for corporate code of conduct in listing rules.

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27.

Mabuchi Motor Mexico has a very high turnover of personnel, this is due to the fact that the economic conditions for hiring operating personnel are very low, making it impossible to compete in the area with surrounding companies, in addition to the fact that the rules are very limited in the company for a little over two years, the staff do what they want and there are no consequences.

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28.

Mabuchi Motor is pursuing a strategy of developing motors with quieter operation and longer operating life, using better materials and processing accuracy.

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29.

Therefore, Mabuchi is directing its attention to developing not only small motors but mid-sized motors.

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30.

Since 2011, Mabuchi Motor has welcomed summer interns, including engineering and business students and Global Law Fellows, from internationally renowned universities such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Brigham Young University .

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31.

Mabuchi Motor performance depends on three elements such as voltage across terminals, resistance across terminals, and magnetic force.

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32.

Mabuchi Motor identified global warming as a major issue and, therefore, committed to use resources more efficiently, reduce waste, and conduct environmentally friendly manufacturing operations, including green procurement.

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33.

Mabuchi Motor has built an environmental management system, with the director acting as environmental management representative.

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34.

Since then, the Mabuchi Motor Group has been conducting regular audits by external certification organizations and internal audits within the group.

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35.

Mabuchi Motor Group changed the layout of its factories and the production process aiming to improve productivity and energy conservation, while reducing electricity and water usage and CO2 emissions at the same time.

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36.

Mabuchi Motor is analyzing the content and volume of waste across the group and working on reduction as well as improvements in the recycling rate toward zero emissions.

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37.

In terms of environmentally hazardous substances, Mabuchi Motor is rolling out production activities based on the motto "do not include, do not mix, do not emit" hazardous substances.

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38.

Mabuchi Motor's procurement is conducted globally, and in purchasing various types of materials, the company promotes green procurement, giving priority to purchasing products from business partners who are working on environmental preservation.

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39.

Mabuchi Motor Group conducts periodic environmental education activities, including greening factory grounds by planting trees, as part of operations in its environmental management system.

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40.

Dalian Mabuchi Motor set up the Mabuchi Motor High School Scholarship at the Dalian Education Foundation in 1997 to provide access to education for students of all ages with disabilities or who suffer from economic hardship.

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41.

Second, Mabuchi Motor has supported young engineers by co-sponsoring many sorts of robotics competitions every year since 2002.

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42.

Mabuchi Motor has been compiling its hobby craft guidebook every year from more than 30 years and has supported slot car racing since 1961.

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