A Glimpse Inside Cebu MinebeaMitsumi

To be a part of the Saitama-Cebu HR Monozukuri Project is a huge opportunity for me to explore japanese culture and japanese' ways of doing things. This week's 3 day assignment was to have a tour into selected japanese companies within the Cebu province. Yesterday, as our final task prior to completing the course,we've visited Cebu MinebeaMitsumi located in Sabang, Danao City, Cebu Philippines. It is about 25 kilometers far from Mactan-Cebu International Airport or approximately 52 minutes of travel by a 4-wheeled vehicle. From Cebu City, it is about 13 kilometers far or 1 hour and 17 minutes of travel also by a 4-wheeled vehicle.

As i had observed with every company that i had visited, their respective HR Department are responsible in conducting lectures and overviews about their respective companies.Specifically, they provide information about their products, processes and labor force. Those are the basic unclassified information they impart to visitors. When referring to Cebu MinebeaMitsumi, some locals or cebuanos especially older regular employees will prefer the word 'Mitsumi' because it is what they are used to. The former name of the company is just Mitsumi. MinebeaMitsumi is the new name adopted by the company because of its integration with Minebea Corporation, Ltd. in the first month of the year 2017.

According to the lecture, Mitsumi means three beauties in japan, namely 'beautiful products', 'beautiful friendship' and 'beautiful business'. By synchronizing these three ideal beauties, they believe to be continually competitive in the industry. By the record, the company is the largest manufacturing single employer among other manufacturing companies in Cebu. It is very evident during our tour when we have to walk couple of meters from a building to another due to the company's size.

Some of the company's' products my group were introduced to are those parts or components of a smartphone and components of a Camera. As a basic company policy during visits, we were not allowed to have our smartphones usable inside every building. We only got opportunity to take pictures when the visit is almost over and when we were on our way to go out.

A semi-sloping road providing easy access to other buildings. The entire plant can be imagine as a small village where it is composed of couple of low-rise buildings, have improve roadways for transportation and have designated areas for other activities not related to manufacturing such as smoking areas and canteens.

The company occupies a large amount of land area for its business. The number of their buildings reaches 11 or more. We were not able to visit each building because it is way too impractical. With the amount of time we are allotted for, it is impossible to explore every building. We were just toured to manufacturing plants where our professions can relate a little.

Smoking area few steps from me..The company also provides smoking areas for smoking employees. Aside from the benefits they offer to every employee working for them, they also mind the comfort of each employee when it comes to smoking without threatening the health of other non-smoking employees.

On our way out from the plant tour with my fellow Electronics Engineering classmates.Every tour we always spend time as classmates, granted with the opportunity as a project participant, to have our team photo.From the picture, I am on the leftmost. I am proud to be a part of them who all are also steemians.

Our group picture, with the other participating universities as our visit and tour in the plant concluded.

I am always thankful with the Saitama-Cebu HR Monozukuri project and the participating companies for the opportunity they gave us.

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