SMC Corp (SMC) is involved in the manufacturing and distribution of automatic control equipment in Japan. It also has expertise in the manufacturing of sintered filters and various types of filtration equipment. The company offers its products to a wide range of sectors including machine tools, semiconductor, automotive, food and medical.

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SMC’s R&D activities focus was on improving existing products and manufacturing processes and developing new products and processes. The company focuses to develop new products with improved performance for energy conservation, space saving and weight reduction as well as lower production cost. These R&D activities takes place at Tsukuba technical center with other technical centers in the US, UK, China, and Germany. The company collects and shares the technical information and customers’ need of each region. The company also focuses on R&D activities of peripheral technology and automatic control equipment to acknowledge the changes in the market. For automatic control equipment, the company is developing and expanding the product line to meet the diverse range of applications. In FY2023, it spent JPY74,377 million on R&D, which was 9% of its revenue and decreased by 8.1% YoY.