Company History
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YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Established as a limited partnership
Founder: Daigoro Yasukawa1915 -
New Product 3-phase Induction Motor1917
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YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. established1919
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Supersynchronous Motor1927
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Conveyor system Conveyor system adapted for small electronics and switches1937
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New Product Introduced VS motor1953
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Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. (Switzerland) for DC motors1954
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Yukuhashi plant opened1957
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Servomotors "Minertia" DC servo motor developed1958
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Kokura plant opened1961
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First DC disc motor1961
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Tokyo plant opened1964
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New Product Cup-Motor – first DC servo drive with large capacity1966
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YASKAWA Electric America, Inc. YASKAWA Electric America, Inc. founded in Chicago1967
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New Product Hard-wired NCs developed1968
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Motor-driven Actuators Moto-Arm, Moto-Hand and Moto-Finger (motor-driven actuators)1968
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Mechatronics “Mechatronics” – a term actually coined by a YASKAWA engineer1969
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New Product SF6 gas rotary-arc load breakers developed1969
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Nakama plant opened1969
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Mechatronics Registration of the "Mechatronics" brand1972
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New Product Yasnac CNC system using microprocessors1973
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New Product Domestic production of floppy disk drives started1974
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New Product NC “YASNAC”, incorporating a microcomputer, developed1974
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New Product The "MOTOMAN-L10" vertically jointed, articulated type arcwelding robot with 10 kg payload introduced1977
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New Product First company to develop vector control inverter1979
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First MOTOMAN robot sold in Europe1981
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Inception YASKAWA Electric Europe GmbH established1981
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New Product First AC servo drive range for machine tool and robotic market1983
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Deming Prize received1984
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Motoman Center opened1984
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New Product First company to introduce fully digital controlled inverter drive1985
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New Product Development of vacuum robots1987
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New Technology YASKAWA first to implement IGBT modules into general purpose inverters1988
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Power Distribution Equipment plant opened1989
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MOTOMAN Inc. MOTOMAN Inc. founded in the U.S.1989
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New Product Robot used for maintenance on elevated power lines1989
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New Product First fully digital AC servo drive with precise torque, speed, and position control1990
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New Product Arc World, industry’s first, pre-engineered arc-welding solution1990
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New Product Live-line maintenance robot developed1990
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Corporate name changed to YASKAWA Electric Corporation1991
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New Product AC servo Σ (Sigma) series developed1991
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New Product Σ-I Series – very compact amplifiers and motors1992
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IACET accreditation IACET accreditation for training programs (first accredited robot manufacturer)1992
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YASKAWA Electric UK Ltd. established for local production of AC drives1993
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New Product MotoSim, industry’s first PC-based robot simulation and offline programming software1993
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1 million AC servomotors produced1993
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New Offices Shanghai Office and Beijing service centers established1994
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New Technology Patent for multiple robot control1994
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New Production Sites Local production of robots was first started in the USA and Sweden1995
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New Technology First company to develop vector control inverters for general applications1995
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New Manufacturing Sites General purpose AC drive manufacturing joint venture companies established in Shanghai and Malaysia1996
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New Technology Development for commercialising superenergy-saving variable speed drive “VS-686SS5”1997
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New Product Development of high-clean class “MOTOMAN CR series”1997
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MOTOMAN production reached 50,000 mark1998
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AC servo production reached 2 million mark1998
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Joint Veture established for industrial drive systems with Siemens AG (Germany) in Japan.1999
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New Technology First company to develop motor-friendly 3-level control general purpose inverter2000
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Joint Venture of CNC systems with Siemens AG2000
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New Product Autosorter (TM), robotic test tube handling solution for clinical laboratories2000
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AC servo production reached 3 million mark2002
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100,000 100,000th MOTOMAN robot sold2003
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The YASKAWA Solution Center established2003
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Latest Generation Develop for commercialising the latest generation industrial robots (dual-arm robot & single-arm robot)2005
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VIPA VIPA established as a division of YASKAWA Europe2012
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ReWalk Strategic partnership with ReWalk Robotics announced2013
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The SWITCH YASKAWA acquires THE SWITCH, Finland2014
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New controller generation DX200 New controller generation DX200 with integrated functional safety unit2014
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Anniversary 100 Years of YASKAWA2015
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Wärtsilä’s marine power drives THE SWITCH acquires Wärtsilä’s marine power drives, Norway.2016