Osaka-Kansai Expo
What results and impact did Murata gain from its Osaka-Kansai Expo project, which involved more than 200 employees? Masamichi Ando, who led the project, looks back on it through the lenses of employees, visitors, the local community, business partners, and the children who will shape the future.
Lithium-ion batteries (LiB) are used in various fields, but the disposal of degraded batteries can have an adverse environmental impact and is becoming a social issue, so it is hoped that the reuse of materials and batteries can help to alleviate this problem. In this article, we explain the mechanisms of lithium-ion battery degradation and the battery characterization and degradation diagnosis methods essential for understanding the battery state.
Murata Manufacturing ("Murata") exhibited at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, a show that introduces the latest technologies, etc., in the mobility industry. To learn more, we spoke with a Murata manager in charge about the thoughts behind this exhibit and the future of mobility and robots envisioned by Murata.
Osaka-Kansai Expo
What results and impact did Murata gain from its Osaka-Kansai Expo project, which involved more than 200 employees? Masamichi Ando, who led the project, looks back on it through the lenses of employees, visitors, the local community, business partners, and the children who will shape the future.
The compact VOC removal system aims to achieve annual energy savings of approximately 20 million yen per drying equipment unit. Through a "one-by-one" distributed installation for each production equipment unit, the system significantly decreases energy use for cleanroom temperature and humidity adjustment, reduces the environmental impact, increases factory efficiency, and enables layout flexibility. This article describes how Murata overcame technical challenges such as developing miniature, high-efficiency rotors and introduces the story behind the system's development.
Data Science × Murata
As a company that is accelerating the business utilization and application of data science, Murata Manufacturing participated in the 2025 conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), continuing its involvement from 2024. In addition to explaining the content of the presentation given at JSAI 2025 by Yamaguchi of Murata Manufacturing, this article also introduces the data scientists who are working on generative AI at the company.
Data Science × Murata
Murata Manufacturing internally developed and released the "Murata Coworker" generative AI product in October 2024, and roughly 27,000 employees in total are using the product in their work. The company reported the results of their efforts at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2025. In this article, Product Manager Koganei provides a behind-the-scenes look at the development and operation of Murata Coworker and discusses the future outlook for this product.
SDGs×Murata
This article introduces Murata Manufacturing's initiatives to reduce emissions falling under Scope 3 Category 4 (Upstream transportation and distribution). Murata Manufacturing has set a target of reducing overall Scope 3 GHG emissions by 27.5% by 2030 compared to fiscal 2019. As part of these efforts, we are promoting a variety of measures such as initiatives to reduce Category 4 emissions, including modal shifts, joint transportation using EV trucks, and improvements in packaging materials. Here, we explain the details of specific initiatives and future prospects.
DX×Murata: The future of manufacturing that is evolving through DX
On January 1, 2024, Wakura Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. suffered severe damage due to the Noto Peninsula earthquake. Despite facing severe damage including liquefaction and equipment damage, the plant fully restored its production capacity in just four months. In this article, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the recovery project.
Osaka-Kansai Expo
What inspired Murata Manufacturing to sponsor the Osaka-Kansai Expo and provide the echorb Wonder Stones to the Better Co-Being Signature Pavilion? For this article, we interviewed the members of the Murata Expo Promotion Office to find out the reasons behind this decision.
As undersea resources are attracting attention around the world, underwater drones are increasingly being used to survey those resources. In particular, there is great interest in the potential of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of fully autonomous navigation. How do AUVs operate underwater where radio waves cannot reach? In this article, we will explain the technology of underwater communication that is essential for AUV operation.
Gifts Inc., the winner of the top award at the fiscal 2024 KUMIHIMO Tech Camp with Murata, is developing a revolutionary fetal examination system that instantly captures ultrasound images from multiple angles. This innovation promises to solve various challenges associated with traditional fetal ultrasound examinations. We spoke with Dr. Ogasawara, CEO of Gifts Inc., about the development process, future prospects, and their experiences with and hopes for the KUMIHIMO program.
We will explain the results of our evaluation of replacing film capacitors with multilayer ceramic capacitors in a resonance circuit.
This document explains the mechanism and effects of ghost noise problems and introduces effective countermeasures proposed by Murata.
Introducing Murata's ceramic capacitors that deliver high performance and reliability in base station high-frequency circuits, along with technical details and application examples.
Introducing Murata's ceramic capacitors and examples of how they contribute to improving the reliability and high performance of FA (factory automation) equipment.
Tantalum capacitors are often used as the capacitor connected to the power line of PA (= Power Amplifier) for GSM on smart phones. In this report, we evaluate replacing the tantalum capacitor (Ta-Cap) with a ceramic capacitor.
We introduce measures and evaluation methods for noise (sound) caused by ceramic capacitors, as well as the mechanism behind its occurrence.
This page introduces typical capacitor products for medical devices. Here, you can browse capacitor products that are compatible with various medical devices, such as capacitors for implantable medical devices, capacitors for diagnostic imaging equipment, and capacitors for portable and wearable medical devices.
Osaka-Kansai Expo
For approximately 40 years, Murata Manufacturing has been utilizing CAE software that was developed in-house to support its development and design efforts. This CAE software is called "Femtet" and is based on the finite element method, which supports eight fields of analysis including stress, electromagnetic waves, and fluids. Femtet has also been commercially available outside of Murata since 2008. This article discusses the development of Femtet and the motivation for making it commercially available, as well as the reasons why even by non-specialist engineers can use it effectively.
DX×Murata: The future of manufacturing that is evolving through DX
Digital transformation is changing manufacturing in order to address the rapidly changing market environment. This article explains the current state of manufacturing as well as the issues it faces and its future.
Osaka-Kansai Expo
Murata Manufacturing is demonstrating the echorb Wonder Stones at the Osaka-Kansai Expo's Better Co-Being signature pavilion. This article introduces the struggles and innovations behind their development as well as future prospects for Murata's heartbeat detection and position detection technologies that are paving the way to the society of the future.
Osaka-Kansai Expo
Murata Manufacturing is demonstrating the echorb Wonder Stones at the Osaka-Kansai Expo's Better Co-Being signature pavilion. This article introduces the challenges and ingenuity behind their development as well as the future prospects for the 3DHaptics technologies used in the echorb, which creates an illusion in users' brains that make them feel as if they are being pulled.
In smart factories, electromagnetic noise from industrial equipment can interfere with wireless communications, potentially causing communication failures. This article explains the impact of such interference and the latest EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) countermeasures.
SDGs×Murata
Efforts to achieve carbon neutrality are now an inescapable responsibility for companies. To reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs), they must not only take steps as business entities, but also collaborate with others throughout their entire supply chains. This article introduces the frameworks and specific initiatives we deploy in an effort to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHGs.
Wireless power supply is a technology that is expected to be used in a wide range of fields such as mobile devices, industrial IoT devices, EVs and other mobility fields, and medical instruments. This article introduces the future vision for wireless power supply, cavity resonance-enabled WPT, one of the wireless power supply technologies being researched and developed by Murata Manufacturing, as well as ideas for applying this technology.
The digital twin technique of producing new value by linking a real space (physical space) and a digital space (cyberspace) is attracting attention. This is a technology to capture data from a real space and then reproduce it in high precision in a digital space. It makes it possible to predict and simulate what will occur in the real space. We explain here how digital twins are being applied and what kind of effects they produce.
A "digital twin" refers to a technique to reproduce a virtual reality in a digital space (cyberspace) using information from a real space (physical space). Creating twins of real spaces in digital spaces is expected to produce value. We explain the basic concept of digital twins, their components, and examples of their application.
Murata Manufacturing participated at the Automotive Engineering Exposition, Japan's largest automotive technology exhibition, on May 21, 2025. We unveiled products, technologies, and more that will contribute to improving the reliability of EVs. We will take a look here at some of the notable items we exhibited and our solutions business for mobility.
Due to the impact of global warming and other factors, the importance of heat risk prevention has increased in recent years. Biodata Bank, a company that develops and sells wearable devices for heat risk prevention, utilized AMR sensors from Murata Manufacturing in its inspection process for finished products, to achieve a high level of quality control. We spoke with the company about why they adopted AMR sensors, how they are used, what they gained from co-creation with Murata Manufacturing, their plans for future co-creation, etc.
The climate crisis is becoming more serious. Under these circumstances, various places are introducing renewable energy. However, there are many challenges to ensuring a stable supply of energy. Effective energy management is required. Murata Manufacturing's efinnos is an integrated renewable energy control solution that utilizes AI to eliminate the gap between supply and demand. Those in charge of developing efinnos, which has already built up a proven track record of operation, explain here its features and future prospects.
Further improvement in processing power is being required of data centers. On the other hand, improving the processing power of data centers is becoming impossible without the introduction of power consumption reducing technologies and effective measures against heat generation. We explain in this article the low power consumption technologies and effective heat dissipation technologies being introduced into the latest data centers.
The Open Compute Project (OCP) enables the high processing power, economy, and reduced power consumption required for data centers. What is the OCP? We describe here the background to the continued expansion and evolution of data centers, the current issues, the basic knowledge of the OCP that is advocated to overcome those issues, and the benefits of OCP-compliant products.
Data centers are being utilized for a wider range of applications year by year. The functions required for the information processing systems introduced into data centers are changing in terms of the quality of the required calculation processing in line with those changes in how data centers are being used. In addition, the roles of the processors responsible for processing are becoming increasingly segmented. We explain in this article the functions of information processing systems in data centers with a focus on the processors that serve as the brain for information processing.
This article focuses on the hardware aspects of the components and technologies used in data centers, which have become the infrastructure for supporting a digital society. It clarifies the differences in design philosophy with PCs and other information devices used by individuals and explains the technologies that ensure the reliability needed by data centers to operate continuously 24 hours a day, 365 days a year so that countless users can perform various tasks.
Many communication devices currently in widespread use employ multivalue digital modulation to achieve higher communication speeds. Here we will explain this multivalue digital modulation.
Here we explain signals, communication speed, and digital modulation, which form the basis of wireless communication, or the movement of digital data, that has become social infrastructure.
This article explains the significance of data centers, which have become critical infrastructure for supporting a digital society. It also clarifies their benefits, which cannot be achieved through the use of information-processing equipment alone, while also discussing their role in supporting a society that promotes DX (digital transformation). In addition, it also addresses issues for the further evolution of data centers.
Stretchable printed circuits are stretchable electronic circuit boards that apply a printing technology called printed electronics. It is expected that these circuits be utilized in medicine and various other fields. We introduce here basic knowledge on printed electronics and stretchable printed circuits, stretchable printed circuit utilization examples, and more.
The spread of PCs and the Internet has led to the rapid development of the digital society since the mid-1990s, and with the appearance of digital devices such as smartphones, it can be said that digital has become a natural part of society. Here we discuss matters related to digital technology, which can be considered the foundation of our current society and lives, such as the types, characteristics, and units of quantity of digital data.
Inductor Guide
We explain here the factors that suppress the tilt that is liable to occur during mounting for small film type RF inductors (01005 size (0.4 × 0.2 mm) and 0201 size (0.6 × 0.3 mm)) that use L-shaped electrodes.
Keys, which are essential for accessing vehicles, have evolved over time from traditional physical keys to keyless entry systems and smart keys. Currently, digital keys are being developed to adapt to emerging mobility concepts like CASE. In this article, we will outline the fundamental concepts of digital keys and the communication technologies that enable their functionalities.
PRODUCT FOCUS
This article introduces high and medium voltage low-loss multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) that are optimal for resonant circuits used in automotive OBCs, wireless power transmission, and servers. It provides a detailed explanation of the characteristics and selection criteria when utilizing these capacitors in high-power LC and LLC resonant circuits, which have been increasingly prevalent in recent years.
The concept of the point cloud has taken hold as part of the essential technological foundations that support aspects of social infrastructure such as construction, civil engineering, and manufacturing, and currently there is growing interest in the practical application of three-dimensional point clouds in particular. This article explains ways that AI can be used for analysis of three-dimensional point clouds that have the potential to contribute to infrastructure in a wide variety of ways, presents example applications, etc.
Energy-saving technologies are actively being applied to air-conditioning equipment in multi-floor buildings and other facilities. We introduce in this article the key points that should be kept in mind to combine both energy saving and comfort in air conditioning control in large facilities with a focus on automatic control by AI.
Future Society Supported by Generative AI
Generative AI can now manipulate programming languages that describe software, electronic circuits, and more, enabling the automatic development of advanced devices and systems simply by specifying broad development goals. Efforts are also being made to integrate similar generative AI capabilities into devices to create robots that can operate optimally in varying situations. Here we highlight the trends in utilizing generative AI for device development and enhancing robot sophistication.
Future Society Supported by Generative AI
This article explains the trend and impact of applying foundational models, which are the underlying technology of linguistic generative AI, to Materials Informatics (MI), a method for developing new materials utilizing data science, to effectively and efficiently create AI models for development. When used effectively by developers with a knowledge of materials development, this approach enables them to shorten the development time for new materials and explore unknown substances that were previously not subject to experimentation.
Capable of handling data in multiple formats on an integrated basis, multimodal AI is rapidly spreading in generative AI and AI platforms at present. We introduce in this article an overview, utilization examples, and more on multimodal AI, which is expected to be applied to various fields.
Open innovation, which involves combining technologies to create greater value, is an appealing initiative for both companies and start-ups. However, it is essential to exercise caution when sharing information with business partners and during communication. In this document, we provide a clear overview of open innovation, including its fundamental concepts, advantages and disadvantages, the current state, the importance of selecting optimal business partners, and more.
Murata Manufacturing and TERRACE MILE have been collaborating since 2017 by leveraging our mutual strengths in terms of soil sensors and agricultural data analysis with the aim of improving and stabilizing crop yields. We introduce here the results produced from this collaboration between an electronics component manufacturer and agriculture.
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