Yaskawa Electric Corporation

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Welding robot by Yaskawa

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Robot with two arms SDA5, 2009

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The company was founded in 1915, and its head office is located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Yaskawa applied for a trademark on the term "Mechatronics" in 1969, it was approved in 1972.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The head-office, in Kitakyushu, was designed by the American architect Antonin Raymond in 1954.<ref>Yaskawa introduction booklet, 2012</ref>

The company is listed on the Tokyo and Fukuoka Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Products and Services

• Servo Drives and Machine Controllers
• AC Drives
• Robots
  • Industrial robots for various industrial processes: Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA), collaborative robots
• System Engineering used in:
  • Steel plants
  • Social systems (water circulation, energy conservation, disaster prevention, mega-solar systems, hybrid electrical generation systems and energy management systems)
  • Environment & energy (power generation equipment)
  • Electrical power (electric power distribution equipment)
  • Industrial electronics
• Information Technology
• Equipment for Energy Saving and Creation

Subsidiaries

YASKAWA has business hubs in 29 countries around the world and with production bases in 12 countries including Japan. There are 81 subsidiaries and 24 affiliate companies across the globe.<ref name="YEAR"/> Some of these are:

• in the Americas: Yaskawa America, Inc., Yaskawa Canada Inc., Yaskawa Electrico do Brasil Ltda., Solectria Renewables LLC<ref>http://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/manufacturing/yaskawa-scoops-up-solectria-renewables-251171-1.html Yaskawa Deal</ref>
• in Europe, Africa, Middle-East: Yaskawa Europe GmbH, Yaskawa Nordic AB, Yaskawa Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd, VIPA<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• in Asia-Pacific: Yaskawa India Private Limited, Yaskawa Electric (China) Co., Ltd., Yaskawa Electric Korea Corporation, Yaskawa Electric Taiwan Corporation<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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External links

• Official global website Template:In lang
• Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division
• Yaskawa Europe GmbH
• Yaskawa India Private Limited
• Yaskawa Viet Nam, Inc

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