To provide a phenol resin cam made of phenolic molding compound excellent in wear resistance while keeping mechanical strength, creep characteristics and dimensional accuracy which conventional phenolic molding compound has, and used for automobile parts or general-purpose machine parts or the like which can be manufactured by compression molding, transfer molding or injection molding.

The phenol resin cam is formed of phenolic molding compound containing 30-40 wt% phenol resin, 5-20 wt% graphite, 40-60 wt% glass fiber and 5-10 wt% organic fiber in relation to whole molding compound.