Yaskawa Global
Founded in 1915, YASKAWA is a world’s largest manufacturer of motion control products for industrial automation and OEMs. YASKAWA is renowned worldwide for its cutting edge technological brilliance, constantly endeavoring to cater to the continuously changing needs of the growing customer base. This desire for continuous evolution and improvement to meet customer needs has made YASKAWA a leader in the space of motion control products.
YASKAWA’S policies are built on goals of delivering best-in-class customer service and lucrative growth we believe our products and our employees are our biggest strengths. Our philosophy is “contributing to the evolution of society and the welfare of mankind through the performance of its business.”
In nearly 100 years of presence in the industry, we have constantly focused on R&D to maintain our competitive advantage and give our customers a safe, reliable, efficient and user-friendly product. YASKAWA’S engineering expertise covers a broad range of industries viz, cement, textile, plastic and rubber, building automation, metals and mining to name a few.

Representative Director President YASKAWA Electric Corporation
“We will establish a highly-profitable business structure and accelerate our activity to create new business and business models to achieve our mid-term business plan ‘Dash 25’.”
Since being founded in 1915, Yaskawa Electric has set ”electric motors and their applications” as its business domain and supported the leading-edge industries of the age. In order to engage in business with its own technology, the company established a creed of “becoming a technology-centered company,” proposed the concept of “mechatronics*1,” ahead of the rest of the world, and has maintained quality-first management with the determination to develop the world’s first-in-class and revolutionary technologies and products. Yaskawa’s core technologies are “motion control,” ”robotics,” and “power conversion.” These technologies and products born and created out of our search for elaborate control of mechanical movements contribute on a daily basis to improvements in the quality and efficiency of manufacturing around the world.
Our business hubs are located in 31 countries around the world including Japan, and the production bases are located in 12 countries. We operate a glocal business which is adapted to each region’s characteristics. Yaskawa’s technologies, products and services are enjoying high reputation and great trust from customers worldwide.
We will continue to evolve technology and contribute to the development of the world through the new solutions.
Yaskawa started the mid-term business plan “Dash 25” in 2016 as the first step towards realizing the long-term business plan “Vision 2025.” In Dash 25, we will accelerate the launch of new products in each region and market by fully leveraging our glocal development capability to achieve higher profitability, as well as improve our speed in meeting customer needs by promoting automation, establishing flexible production system and realizing production in optimum locations.
As industries are becoming more advanced, the manufacturing industry worldwide is rapidly moving towards implementing concepts such as Industrie 4.0*2 and IoT*3. In addition, there has been more demand than ever for our robots and mechatronics due to intensified capital investment made in 3C (Computer, consumer, communication) market, including smartphones.
In clean power fields, we can expect further demand in areas like large-scale wind power generation and electric vehicles as a result of environmental improvement being widely identified as an urgent issue particularly in China.
In FY2017, we will accelerate our growth for achieving our mid-term business plan, Dash 25, by strengthening our global competitiveness and continuously evolving our development, production, and sales capabilities.”
Your continued support is greatly appreciated
Thank You,
Hiroshi Ogasawara
Representative Director
President

Establishment
- 1915 – YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. established as a limited partnership
- 1919 – YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. established
- 1949 – Shares listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka stock exchanges

Elictric Motors and Application
- 1954 – Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. (Switzerland) for DC motors
- 1957 – Yukuhashi plant opened
- 1958 – DC servomotors “Minertia motor” developed

Industrial Electronics
- 1961 – Technical tie-up with SEA (France) for print motors Kokura plant opened
- 1964 – Tokyo plant opened
- 1968 – Hard-wired NCs developed
- 1969 – SF6 gas rotary-arc load breakers developed
Application for Mechatronics trademark registration submitted (Trademarks approved in 1972)
Nakama plant opened

Industrial Automations
- 1974 – Domestic production of floppy disk drives started
NC “YASNAC”, incorporating a microcomputer, developed - 1977 – The MOTOMAN-L10 vertically jointed, articulated type robot introduced
- 1978 – Development for commercializing vector-control AC Drives
- 1979 – Corporate charter established

FA and Mechatronics
- 1983 – Participated in Advanced Robot Technology, a large-scale project sponsored by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Development for commercializing AC servo drive
- 1984 – Deming Prize received
- 1987 – Development of vacuum robots
- 1988 – Tokyo Mechatronics Center opened
- 1989 – Renovation of AC Drive production facility completed
Power Distribution Equipment plant opened

FA and Mechatronics
- 1990 – Live-line maintenance robot developed
MOTOMAN Center opened - 1991 – Corporate name changed to YASKAWA Electric Corporation AC servo S(Sigma) series developed
- 1992 – Participated in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry’s Micromachine Research and Development Project
- 1993 – YASKAWA Electric UK Ltd. established in the United Kingdom and local production of AC Drives commenced Abolished special Freon/trichloroethylene AC Servomotor Shipments Reach 1 million units
- 1994 – Shanghai Office and Beijing service centers established
- 1995 – Beijing Office opened Local production of MOTOMAN robots in the United States and Sweden began Sales of PIM parallel processing calculators commenced Development for commercializing vector-control generalpurpose AC Drive “VS-616G5”
- 1996 – Industrial robot joint venture company established in Beijing General-purpose AC Drive manufacturing joint venture companies established in Shanghai and Malaysia Educational robot joint venture company established in Israel
- 1997 – Development for commercializing super-energy-saving variable speed drive “VS-686SS5” “VS-686SS5” received the Minister of International Trade and Industry Award as an “Excellent Energy Product” Development for commercializing robot for high-clean class “MOTOMAN CR series” Established Environmental Mid-Range Plan
- 1998 – MOTOMAN production reached 50,000 mark Received ISO14001 certification for Tokyo plant AC Servo production reached 2 million mark
- 1999 – Received ISO14001 certification for Yukuhashi plant Acquisition of Tokico Ltd.’s painting robot sales operations Established joint venture for industrial drive systems with Siemens AG (Germany)

Motion Control and Robotics Automations
- 2000 – Business tie-up with NIDEC for medium and small size general purpose motors Taking over all business related to the national robot sales of YASKAWA & Company Ltd. Acquisition of semiconductor system business group in HUNTAIR Inc. (America) Established joint venture in the field of CNC systems for machine tools with Siemens AG (Germany)
- 2001 – Acquisition of drive products business unit in MagneTek Inc. (America) Taking over YASKAWA Plant Engineering Co., Ltd
- 2002 – The solution center established AC Servo production reached 3 million mark
- 2003 – MOTOMAN production reached 100,000 mark
Yahata-higashi Plant Opened - 2004 – AC Servo production reached 4 million mark
- 2005 – Commercialized the new-generation industrial robots (dual-arm robot & arm robot)
- 2006 – MOTOMAN STATION opened AC servo production reached 5 million units. Cumulative shipments of MOTOMAN reached 150,000 units. Launched a small general-purpose AC Drive,”V1000″
- 2007 – AC servo drives S-V series launched
Cumulative shipments of AC Drives reached 10 million units Drive Center opened - 2010 – Mechatronics Promoter
Offering solutions that match changes in society and industry
Creation of new business by developing applications of mechatronics technology - 2015 – 100th anniversary of foundation
- 2016 – Total Solution Provider
Kick off initiatives to realize Yaskawa Industrie 4.0