Company History
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YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Established as a limited partnership
Founder: Daigoro Yasukawa -
New Product 3-phase Induction Motor -
YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. established -
Supersynchronous Motor -
Conveyor system Conveyor system adapted for small electronics and switches -
New Product Introduced VS motor -
Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. (Switzerland) for DC motors
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Yukuhashi plant opened
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Servomotors "Minertia" DC servo motor developed -
Kokura plant opened
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First DC disc motor
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Tokyo plant opened
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New Product Cup-Motor – first DC servo drive with large capacity
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YASKAWA Electric America, Inc. YASKAWA Electric America, Inc. founded in Chicago -
New Product Hard-wired NCs developed
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Motor-driven Actuators Moto-Arm, Moto-Hand and Moto-Finger (motor-driven actuators)
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Mechatronics “Mechatronics” – a term actually coined by a YASKAWA engineer
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New Product SF6 gas rotary-arc load breakers developed
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Nakama plant opened
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Mechatronics Registration of the "Mechatronics" brand -
New Product Yasnac CNC system using microprocessors -
New Product Domestic production of floppy disk drives started
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New Product NC “YASNAC”, incorporating a microcomputer, developed
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New Product The "MOTOMAN-L10" vertically jointed, articulated type arcwelding robot with 10 kg payload introduced -
New Product First company to develop vector control inverter
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First MOTOMAN robot sold in Europe
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Inception YASKAWA Electric Europe GmbH established
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New Product First AC servo drive range for machine tool and robotic market
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Deming Prize received -
Motoman Center opened
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New Product First company to introduce fully digital controlled inverter drive
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New Product Development of vacuum robots
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New Technology YASKAWA first to implement IGBT modules into general purpose inverters
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Power Distribution Equipment plant opened
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MOTOMAN Inc. MOTOMAN Inc. founded in the U.S. -
New Product Robot used for maintenance on elevated power lines
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New Product First fully digital AC servo drive with precise torque, speed, and position control
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New Product Arc World, industry’s first, pre-engineered arc-welding solution
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New Product Live-line maintenance robot developed
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Corporate name changed to YASKAWA Electric Corporation
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New Product AC servo Σ (Sigma) series developed -
New Product Σ-I Series – very compact amplifiers and motors
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IACET accreditation IACET accreditation for training programs (first accredited robot manufacturer) -
YASKAWA Electric UK Ltd. established for local production of AC drives
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New Product MotoSim, industry’s first PC-based robot simulation and offline programming software -
1 million AC servomotors produced -
New Offices Shanghai Office and Beijing service centers established
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New Technology Patent for multiple robot control -
New Production Sites Local production of robots was first started in the USA and Sweden
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New Technology First company to develop vector control inverters for general applications
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New Manufacturing Sites General purpose AC drive manufacturing joint venture companies established in Shanghai and Malaysia
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New Technology Development for commercialising superenergy-saving variable speed drive “VS-686SS5”
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New Product Development of high-clean class “MOTOMAN CR series”
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MOTOMAN production reached 50,000 mark
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AC servo production reached 2 million mark
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Joint Veture established for industrial drive systems with Siemens AG (Germany) in Japan.
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New Technology First company to develop motor-friendly 3-level control general purpose inverter
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Joint Venture of CNC systems with Siemens AG
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New Product Autosorter (TM), robotic test tube handling solution for clinical laboratories -
AC servo production reached 3 million mark
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100,000 100,000th MOTOMAN robot sold -
The YASKAWA Solution Center established
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Latest Generation Develop for commercialising the latest generation industrial robots (dual-arm robot & single-arm robot) -
VIPA VIPA established as a division of YASKAWA Europe -
ReWalk Strategic partnership with ReWalk Robotics announced -
The SWITCH YASKAWA acquires THE SWITCH, Finland -
New controller generation DX200 New controller generation DX200 with integrated functional safety unit
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Anniversary 100 Years of YASKAWA -
Wärtsilä’s marine power drives THE SWITCH acquires Wärtsilä’s marine power drives, Norway.