Dissemination and Publicity Projects
This session focused on the latest dissemination andrelated companies and make the MEMS Mall a portal site forpublicity activities conducted by the Micromachine Center andMEMS business.

the Beans Laboratory.
(5) News Blog

1. Meeting of the Dissemination and Publicity
Committee

been started on the Micromachine Center Web site to provide

The first meeting of the Dissemination and Publicity

quick updates on the latest activities of the Micromachine

A Blog entitled “MEMS Wave @ Micromachine Center” hasCommittee for FY 2009 was held on June 3. The committee

Center. Please feel free to visit to the Blog.

reviewed the dissemination and publicity activities of theURL : http://beanspj.cocolog-nifty.com/mems/

Micromachine Center for the current fiscal year and approved

3. Dissemination of Domestic Project Achievements

the schedule of activities.
The Center’s Commercialization and Publicrelations(1) MEMS-ONE Project

Department also makes information available on its Web site to

The MemsONE Support Center has taken the lead inin an effort to publicize the achievements of national projects

holding training sessions and technology exchange seminars

and stimulate MEMS industries.

and so on to promote dissemination of the design tool“MemsONE R ” achieved by the MEMS Open Network

2. Information-providing Activities

Engineering System of Design Tools (MEMS-ONE)(1) Publication of Quarterly Magazine “MICRONANO”

Development Project (FY 2004 - 2006).

Beginning this fiscal year, MICRONANO is being publishedjointly under the name of both the Micromachine Center and(2) Fine MEMS Project

the BEANS Laboratory. Each issue covers the status and(MEMS System Development Center)achievements of project activities as well as upcoming projects

The Fine MEMS knowledge database and the MEMSand events.

equivalent circuit generator achieved as a result of the Highly- Japanese edition (MICRONANO)

Integrated Complex MEMS (Fine MEMS) Production

Published quarterly and distributed in print form as well asTechnology Development Project (FY 2006 - 2008) have beenin electronic form on the Center’s Web sitemade available in the form of the “MEMSPedia” Web content on- English edition (MICRONANO) (English translation ofthe Micromachine Center’s Web site.

Japanese magazine)
Published quarterly in electronic form on the Center’s Web site

(3) BEANS Project (BEANS Laboratory)
Starting in FY 2009, the BEANS Laboratory became theimplementing entity for the BEANS Project (FY 2008 - 2012).

(2) MMC-MIF-BEANS Monthly
Starting this fiscal year, MMC-MIF-BEANS Monthly is being

Accordingly, the Micromachine Center is participating in thepublished jointly by the Micromachine Center and the BEANS

BEANS Project as a member, providing appropriate personnelLaboratory. The monthly newsletter covers the status of activities,

and financial support to ensure the success of the project.

policy trends, information on upcoming events and so on.
(4) Other Activities
1Micromachine Technology Project(3) MicroNano Net
This occasional bulletin is published via mailing list and sentThe MMPJ Archive has been made available on theto supporting members of the Micromachine Center, MEMS

Micromachine Center’s Web site. The MMPJ Archive organizes

Industry Forum members and so on. It provides information on

the achievements of the Micromachine Technology Research

MicroNano-related industry-academic joint activities andand Development Project (FY 1991 - 2000) in Web contents,upcoming events.

enabling information to be retrieved as needed.
2Study Report Data Service (Research and Standardization
Department)(4) MEMS Mall
Since April 2009, not only MEMS Industry Forum members

The Information Service Activities page of thebut also general companies have been able to list products andMicromachine Center’s Web site contains a list of researchtechnologies on the MEMS Mall. Access has been expanded inreports published in 1997 and thereafter, and also provides

this manner in order to invite participation from more MEMS-

these reports at cost.

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