Japanese firms use traditional, conventional methods to reach customers

Alps Electric, a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, is producing electronic devices, such as switches, sensors, and display panels.

The company supplies about 40,000 types of electronic components to more than 2,000 manufacturing companies across the world.

Those precision parts are used in consumer electronics, mobile devices, automotive and industrial equipments.

Their global unified quality parts supply has been backed up with precise mold technology and quality evaluation system.

The Alps Electric Kitahara factory is taking advantage of the precision processing technology to manufacture molds for use in producing various electronic parts.

The factory invites trainee from their manufacturing bases located in Asian countries such as in Malaysia, to learn a variety of techniques such as wire-cut electrical discharge machining and machine grinding.

This micro puzzle cube is made by the advanced mold technology in which seams are almost unrecognisable.

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