Mazak Foundation
Application for Dissertation Award
Fiscal Year 2024
1. Purpose of Establishment
The purpose of the Mazak foundation is to contribute to the advancement of theworld machinery industry by providing grants to individuals, universities, andresearch institutions in Japan and other countries. Grants will be provided for thefollowing areas of research related to advanced production systems:
information-network technologies, production engineering to create and operate
production systems, peripheral equipment such as material handling equipment orrobots and technologies related to their control, material technologies such as
tooling or work materials, processing technologies by machine tools, and machineelement technologies and control technologies of machine tools.
2. Objectives
Some representative examples of fields of research:・ Control technologies or machine element technologies for high precision orhigh speed machine operation.
・ Material technologies such as tooling or work materials to contribute toprocessing technologies to improve machine tool performance.
・ Control technologies or machine element technologies which contribute toimprove flexibility, efficiency, or acceleration of equipment, required for theestablishment of production systems incorporating material handlingequipment or robots.
・ Information-network technologies or operation technologies for the creation oroperation of production systems
Based on the fields as described above, the following categories are subjects ofgrants:
・ Research and development
・ Research of technical applications
・ Study of technical trends
・ Holding an International Conference for technology exchange・ Other activities to achieve the foundation objectives
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Qualification requirements
The college and graduate school students or a person, less than 35-year-old, whois belonging to research institute engaged in research activities or a job inindustrialization in Japan.

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Contents of dissertation award
Recipient will be presented with a ¥100,000～¥400,000 award at the awards
ceremony5.

Application Procedure(1) Fill in the appropriate information in the Mazak Foundation application form.
(2) Submit the application with a letter of recommendation from the head of yourdepartment or institution.
(3) The address of Mazak Foundation office for applications and inquiries isshown below.
(4) The application form will be accepted starting from September, but must reachthe Mazak Foundation no later than 30th November.

6. Documents to be submitted
・ Mazak Foundation research paper award application form (A-4 size)
・ Research paper(Copies already published in academic journals as well as copies of thereviewed proceeding not yet published)
・ Overview of research paper・ CV of applicant
Submit one copy of each document listed above in A4 size pdf file by e-mail7. Selection and Notification of Acceptance
After the examination of the Mazak Foundation judging committee, the Chairman of
the Board of Directors will announce the results in March 2025.
8. Presenting the dissertation award
These will be provided on the day following the “Announcement of Mazak Advanced
Production Systems Research Grantees and Mazak Advanced Production Systems
Distinguished Research Dissertation Award Ceremony”. (It is normally held in May
every year.)

9. Mazak Foundation Address
1-131 Takeda Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun, Aichi-pref., Japan 480-0197
Tel: +81 587-95-6874
E-mail: mazak@lilac.ocn.ne.jp2