We have established DMG MORI ACADEMY facilities worldwide to train our own engineers as well as engineers of the entire manufacturing industry, while also supporting customers during commissioning of new machines. These facilities are located at Iga Campus in Japan, our largest production site, Chicago in the US, and Stuttgart in Germany, as well as other core regions. In 2023, we opened new facilities in Hamamatsu, Kanazawa, Sendai, and Okayama in Japan and have organized hands-on training for local customers and students. We are also planning to establish DMG MORI ACADEMY in Kyushu in the near future.

In 2020, we launched the “Digital Academy” as a digital platform for studying machine operation. The contents are available anytime and anywhere through our customer portal myDMG MORI, ready to be used by customers, students, and teachers as educational materials for classes, home study, and club activities such as robot contests.

With an increase of complex-shaped products and new materials in need of advanced machining technologies, DMG MORI supports customers with “resident engineers” who stay at their site as production engineers for one year. This way, customers benefit from proposals for optimized machining processes and efficient-to-machine product designs, as well as from total support for building production systems after machine delivery.

The WorldSkills Competition aims at promoting vocational training in different countries, international exchange, and goodwill among young professionals. DMG MORI continuously supports international and preliminary tournaments by providing machines, technical assistance on site, as well as training courses for the competitors and more. In 2023, the Japan National Championships took place at Iga Campus.

The Foundation devotes itself to supporting activities aimed at the development and sustainable growth of not only the machine tool industry but the global industry as a whole with an emphasis on the three areas: “research and development,” “human resources development,” “community and culture.” We also co-sponsor international conferences such as CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), and together we promote research and development in production technology, including academic presentations at CIRP 2023 Dublin. In addition, since 2019, we have been providing 3-year scholarships to engineering graduate students at Kyoto University, Keio University, and the University of Tokyo. We expanded this program in 2023 to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences at Kyoto University. After completing their doctoral programs, the scholarship recipients actively pursue careers in their respective fields with employment at private companies and continued research at universities. Since 2021, we have been organizing get-togethers at our Nara Product Development Center with lively discussions that transcend the boundaries of universities and majors.