As we strive to anticipate and create the technologies required to realize our envisioned version of society, making ongoing QCD (quality, cost and delivery) improvements to existing business fields is an important requirement for enhancing product competitiveness. At the same time, new products and business fields also need to be created to ensure the Group’s growth.
Fostering innovation and foresight capabilities amid changing Group operating environments, striving for R&D that regularly and continually generates new value, active bolstering of existing strengths in pursuit of corporate growth, and constantly challenging ourselves to create new value are at the core of our basic policies. In addition, we have established direct current (DC) and high-frequency technologies, “power chemitronics” technologies (combining power electronics with electrochemistry), and digital twin O&M (operations and maintenance) technologies as our three main-focus fields as we lay out our ideal vision for the future and acquire and develop new core technologies while pursuing co-creation of value through a scenario-oriented research approach.

The R&D Division pursues operations based out of the Osaki R&D Center, Numazu Works, and the Nagoya Works. It comprises three research centers and one development division: the Advanced Technology Research Laboratories, the Product Technology Research Laboratories, the Basic & Core Technology Research Laboratories and the Applied Ceramic Products Development Division. It also includes two business promotion offices: the Remote Monitoring Service Business Promotion Office and the 3D Fabrication Business Development Office. The Advanced Technology Research Laboratories promote innovation and search for leading-edge technologies with an eye toward next-generation business development; the Product Technology Research Laboratories pursue product design and carries out concrete product development activities and tasks with the aim of creating competitive products in a timely fashion; and the Basic & Core Technology Research Laboratories endeavor to realize sustained advances in fundamental technologies that support Meidensha's business through analyses, large-scale electric power tests and more. The Applied Ceramic Products Development Division undertakes the development of basic ceramics technologies and develops products through application of said technologies, and the two business promotion offices pursue activities aimed at new business creation.

Advanced Technology Research Laboratories

Product Technology Research Laboratories

Basic & Core Technology Research Laboratories

Applied Ceramic Products Development Division