Today, Japanese die and mold technology is leading the World. It firmly supports all industries in the background and is often called a " support industry." Ogaki Seiko is a manufacturer of dies and molds for ultrafine components and produces a stable supply of high-quality products. Its machines are all stateof-the-art models at the cutting edge of the industry working to an accuracy in the order of microns, with the company' s quality manufacturing enjoying the great confidence of industry.

Ogaki Seiko also manufactures and sells pressed products from its own dies and molds. The company has strong confidence and a rich experience in ultra-precision machining, with its products widely used in the fields of automobiles, electronic devices, medical equipment, cameras, and aircraftrelated products.

One of the main pressed products of the company is suspension arms for hard disks. The suspension arm is an ultra-precision component that correctly supports the head that writes in and reads out data on a hard disk. The head has to accurately trace an ultra-narrow track of 100 nanometers and maintain a distance of 10 nm from the disk, without touching the surface. You can realize how surprisingly accurate this is if you imagine that the head is like a jumbo jet which has to continue flying at a height of 1 mm from the ground! Not many companies in the World are capable of such precision and, in Japan, Ogaki Seiko is the only one.

What realizes such technologies are the company's human-centered management. After all, ultra-precision dies and molds, mechanical parts, and all other products are produced by people, each with their own heart and mind. The company's philosophy statement states: "However science and technology may develop, everything always comes from the hands of people." While positively introducing state-of-the-art machines, the company helps, following the German Meister system, where senior employees hand down to the young employees the skills that are indispensable to the manufacture of dies and molds for precision components. It is through this pioneer spirit that Ogaki Seiko develops new technologies and continues to lead the industry.