Back مؤسسة ياسكاوا إلكتريك Arabic یایسکاوا AZB Yaskawa Electric Corporation Catalan Yaskawa Electric Corporation Danish Yaskawa Denki German Yaskawa Electric Corporation Greek یاسکاوا FA Yaskawa Electric Corporation Italian 安川電機 Japanese Yaskawa Electric Corporation Portuguese
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 Headquarters of Yaskawa | |
Native name | 株式会社安川電機 |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Yasukawa Denki |
| Company type | Public (Kabushiki gaisha) |
| TYO: 6506 FSE: 6506 Nikkei 225 component (TYO) | |
| Industry | |
| Founded | July 16, 1915 |
| Founder | Keiichiro Yasukawa |
| Headquarters | 2-1 Kurosakishiroishi, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 806-0004 Japan |
Key people | Junji Tsuda, Chairman of the Board Hiroshi Ogasawara |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  JPY 448.5 billion (FY 2018)
(US$ 4.05 billion) (FY 2018) |
Number of employees | 15,287 (consolidated)(as of March 1, 2018) |
| Website | https://www.yaskawa.co.jp/en/ Official website] |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] | |
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The Yaskawa Electric Corporation (株式会社安川電機, Kabushiki-gaisha Yasukawa Denki) is a Japanese manufacturer of servos, motion controllers, AC motor drives, switches and industrial robots. Their Motoman robots are heavy duty industrial robots used in welding, packaging, assembly, coating, cutting, material handling and general automation.[5][6]
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.[7] The head-office, in Kitakyushu, was designed by the American architect Antonin Raymond in 1954.[8]
The company is listed on the Tokyo and Fukuoka Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[9]
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- ^ "Operating Results". Yaskawa Electric. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ "Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Yaskawa Electric. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "Company Profile". Reuters. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "Robotics.com Company Profile".
- ^ "Reliance Electric GV3000 Drive 20V4160 | Automation Industrial". 20v4160.com. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ "Company History". Archived from the original on February 27, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ Yaskawa introduction booklet, 2012
- ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 9, 2014.