Abstract
Powder metallurgy, particularly technology of sintered steel component manufacturing has been looked upon a matured technology. Modern development in computer and/or other technologies revealed that PM technology has potential to be evolved. Since these years, the scientific research on fundamental issues of PM parts manufacturing has been recognized as an urgent and important issue by the European and American PM industries, therefore a number of collaboration programs have been initiated.
The tiding activities in the field of iron and steel powder metallurgy in Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy (JSPM) let Japanese PM industries have serious concern about world-class competitiveness of the industries in the future without JSPM's appropriate activities in this field.
This paper explains some typical examples of practical issues in the industries and technical topics to be openly discussed and investigated among the members of JSPM, particularly by academic researchers under collaboration with the industries.
