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Winter bonus

Winter bonuses have been distributed. It has been one year since we declared at the beginning of this year that "bonuses will serve as incentives." To be precise: 1) Individual sales figures were tallied, and each employee's share was determined proportionally. 2) From that total, monthly salaries were paid out [...]

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Hosting the Kyoto Industrial Association Small and Medium Enterprise Tour

At the Kyoto Industrial Association SME Tour, we welcomed SME owners and executives to our company and presented our company overview, technologies, and business model. This tour by the Kyoto Industrial Association follows last year's Technical Executives Exchange and AI Research Group [...]

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Published in Nikkei Trendy January 2026 issue

An advertorial for " Glamichan " will appear in the January issue of Nikkei Trendy, released on December 4, 2025, under the feature "Major Predictions for 2030-2050." This marks Glamichan's major debut. The interview content was skillfully summarized from a third-party perspective. Please pick up a copy and read it [...]

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Cost of Automated Visual Inspection

Visual inspection does not add value. We cannot spend much on its automation. I am considering how to proceed with "automation of visual inspection" based on this premise. Although it depends on the specifications, the approximate cost is 15 million yen including automatic supply and discharge. Supply, [...].

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Business Matching Session" Presentation Completed

We have just finished our presentation at the Kyoto City Venture Business Connoisseur Committee's 5th "Business Matching Meeting for A-Rank Certified Companies" on November 13. Since there was a time limit of 9 minutes, I put on the brakes this time and gave my presentation "exactly as written". The usual [...].

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We want to attract experienced people.

I believe there are two kinds of work. Work that, if you move your hands, is guaranteed to generate sales and profit. Work that, even if you move your hands, has no guarantee that sales will increase. Work that may result in zero sales even if you do your best. There may be jobs where sales will increase without moving hands [...].

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Mechatronics Engineer wanted!

We are looking for a mechatronics engineer who can plan and develop the "hands" of visual inspection equipment. Most visual inspection equipment is generally "site-specific, product-specific, and tailored to the customer's specifications. However, the degree of difficulty is high to begin with, and in addition, it is not easy to develop "production equipment" such as [...].

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Like a "private business cooperative."

Since automation of visual inspection is "automation of non-value-added work," we do not think that a large budget will be allocated for it. I think the upper limit for equipment would be around 10-15 million yen. In that price range, a team of several people will develop [...].

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Equal sales, equal pay

We believe that "sales = contribution to the customer's business. If we contribute a lot to our customers and make a lot of sales, we would like to pay wages in proportion to the sales. (To be precise, it is "in proportion to profit"...) We want to create a form that rewards engineers who work hard. We want to create a form that rewards hard-working en [...].

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Net sales ÷ 4 ÷ Number of employees

I founded the company in July 1999 as a one-man company, and thanks to you, I am now in my 27th year. I started the company when I was 30 years old, so I am "only" 57 years old. In the 26 years I've been in business, sales have been in the 200 million yen range, and the number of employees has been in the 10 person range, so I've been a manager for [...].

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