“Each year, we invest about 9 percent of consolidated net sales back into R&D. And, DENSO consistently ranks at the top of the automotive industry for patents generated each year.” (denso-corp.com/aboutus)

Denso Manufacturing is one of the largest manufacturing organizations worldwide. They are known for their specialization in small robotics. Here at Henry Ford College they have a unique collaborative relationship with the automotive technology department through the TAACCT grant project. Like many manufacturing organizations they have careers in a number of the cluster manufacturing areas. On their website you will find automotive manufacturing and different engineering technologies are incorporated in their business focus.

National and International Career Opportunities
The opportunities for employment are national and international. The TAACT project is located in Michigan, Iowa, California and Tennessee. Globally, their locations are Japan, Europe; Asia the North America website spotlights the industry technological involvement in Thermal Energy, Powertrain, body electronics, Driving Control and Safety, and After Market. The company emphasizes its record as being in the forefront on innovative new technology discoveries and development.

In 2013 Henry Ford College became the lead community college of a 15 community college consortium for the innovative grant project which focus on a distinctive career/job training project. Students in this project are being trained for jobs which have a drastic vacancy. At the same time the students are being a part of developing technologies. The training is job specific. This translates to a job waiting for you upon completion of your training. Manufacturing has a large amount of employment opportunities which are trade specific. The industry was hit hard by the changes in the industry. Denso prides itself as being in the forefront of research and development of new technologies. Given the ever changing dynamics of the manufacturing industry there is a dynamic growth potential of this cluster manufacturing organization.