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Featuring the Kaizen Core Team
The Kaizen Core team brings together Murata Finland employees who share a burning passion for improving operations and enhancing the work environment.
Konnichiwa – Expat Greetings from Japan
I work in Finland at Murata’s R&D, and recently, I had the opportunity to go on assignment to Japan. My family and I moved here in January 2024.
Summer Job Experience at Murata’s Validation Laboratory
I’m Antti and this is my third summer in Murata Finland’s validation laboratory. I’m an electrical engineering student at Aalto University and currently, I’m in the final stages of my master’s studies with plans to graduate by the summer of 2025.
Cindy’s Career Story: From Testing to Finance Department
In this career story, we get to know Cindy, who works at Murata Finland in the External Accounting team as an Accountant. Cindy’s journey at Murata began with testing MEMS sensor products and continued through various phases and additional studies towards her childhood dream of working with numbers.
Murata mentors international students in the International Talent program
The annual, three-month-long International Talent program at Aalto University brings together international students and companies. The program started in 2020 with the aim of helping students find employment and stay in Finland.
Featuring Murata Finland’s ASIC Team
Murata Finland’s ASIC Team is responsible for designing and developing ASICs for MEMS sensors. The team has deep and specific expertise in ASICs for acceleration and angular velocity sensors.
Bonjour – Greetings from France!
I work in the Process Quality team at Murata Finland, and at the beginning of 2024, I had the opportunity to go on a three-month short-term assignment to Murata’s factory in France.
Featuring Murata Finland’s Validation Testing Team
At Murata Finland’s Validation Laboratory, reliability and functionality tests are performed to ensure that Murata’s MEMS sensor elements and components meet high quality and customer requirements.
Muutosneuvottelut tuotannon työvuorojen uudelleen järjestämisestä ovat päättyneet
Murata Electronics Oy:n muutosneuvottelut tuotannon työvuorojen uudelleen järjestämisestä ovat päättyneet. Muutosneuvottelujen lopputuloksena Murata Electronics Oy lopettaa nykyiset viikonloppuvuorot ja keskittää pääosan tuotannostaan arkivuoroihin....
Featuring Production System Development & Production Planning Team
Murata Finland’s Production System Development (PSD) & Production Planning (PP) team is responsible for ensuring that our customers receive their orders on time.
Muutosneuvottelut tuotannon työvuorojen uudelleen järjestämisestä
Murata Electronics Oy käynnistää muutosneuvottelut tuotannon työvuorojen uudelleen järjestämisestä. Tavoitteena on sujuvoittaa tuotantoa ja parantaa tuottavuutta pitkällä aikavälillä. Muutosneuvottelujen tavoitteena ei ole irtisanoa, vähentää, lomauttaa tai...
Featuring Murata Finland’s Supplier Quality Management Team
Murata Finland’s Supplier Quality Management (SQM) team is responsible for ensuring that all our suppliers adhere to Murata’s high-quality standards.
A productive year for Icehearts, supported by Murata
What’s Happening with Icehearts, the organization that Murata has supported with an annual monetary donation since 2021? We inquired about the organization’s activities and interviewed Icehearts team mentor Timo Löppönen.
Future technologies video with Murata
In this video, tech enthusiast Aron Syrjä visits Murata Finland to learn about sensor production and product development, and then travels to Joensuu to the University of Eastern Finland to find out what studying photonics is like.
Murata joins Semi-Summer 2024
Semi-Summer was launched last year as a summer job campaign of semiconductor companies and Aalto University.
Featuring Murata’s MEMS Design Team
Murata Finland’s MEMS Design Team is responsible for designing and modeling sensor elements based on microelectromechanical systems.
World-leading forest machines rely on Murata MEMS sensors
Ponsse Plc is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cut-to-length forest machines. The company is recognized as the technology leader with a strong focus on customers’ success and sustainable forestry.
Finland’s semiconductor industry needs thousands of new talents – awareness campaign to launch in January 2024.
What would the world look like without semiconductors and people behind them? Without the applications and devices enabled by semiconductors, from smartphones to computers, healthcare technologies to energy systems, our society would take a significant step backward.
The Finnish Semiconductor Industry will need thousands of new experts
The Finnish semiconductor industry was presented at the Teknologia 23 event in Helsinki November. Did you know that the sector currently employs around 5,000 people in Finland, but as the sector grows, the need for experts will quadruple by 2032?
Jannatul – Process Development Engineer
“At Murata, I can utilize what I already know – and what I don’t know yet, I can learn!” Jannatul, one of Murata’s Process Development Engineers, came to Finland six years ago to do her PhD in Aalto University. She worked for a few years in academia in Finland, but...
Suvi – Product Manager
Suvi, one of our product managers, has been working at the company for 15 years. Suvi feels that a long career in one company has been a good decision. Read below to find out how Suvi advanced from a summer job as a production operator to her current role.
Aalto University and Murata collaborate to create a unique, tailored solution to support lifewide learning
Murata has collaborated with Aalto University to develop a tailored and uniquely comprehensive solution to meet Murata’s needs for skilled personnel.
Murata Finland able to halve sick leaves caused by mental health reasons
The rate of sick leaves due to mental health reasons was on the rise and in 2020 accounted for more than a quarter of all absences. This rising risk to work ability was tackled together with the occupational health care provider.
Murata participates in the semiconductor industry’s donation to Aalto University
The growth of the semiconductor sector and its investments in Finland are also increasing the need for skilled personnel.
Psychological safety as part of work community well-being
Many of you have probably heard of psychological safety. It refers to a culture of trust in the work community and the organization.
Summer as a process quality engineer at Murata
Here are some of my thoughts about the past summer 2022 and my summer job as a process quality engineer in testing at Murata!
Murata’s summer jobs provide the opportunity to develop yourself and production processes
Hi, I’m Pinja and I’m a student majoring in functional materials at Aalto University. I’m starting my last year of master’s studies in the fall. As a student in material technology, I had pictured myself in a summer job where I would have the chance to get practical experience in electronic applications and solve problems related to them.
At Murata Finland, teams get to define where they will work in the future
In spring 2021, at Murata we started to consider what the return to normal after a strong remote working recommendation would mean and what this ‘new normal’ would look like. It was clear that the remote working period experienced and the related advancements in procedures and tools would permanently alter our working methods.
Building blocks of a successful secondment
When a Murata employee is sent to a secondment, there are at least two goals: an employee’s own development and expanding their own networks as well as achieving the important business goals set for the secondment.
Like a little boy at a candy store – work at Murata helped to refine the direction of studies
Hi, I’m Aleksi and I’m a Master of Science student in the field of technology, material science, at Aalto University. Actually, it was a summer job at Murata that first got me interested in material science.
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