Company Profile
YASKAWA Electric provides motion control, robotics, and system engineering businesses globally. It offers rotary servo motors, direct drive motors, linear motors/linear sliders, machine controllers, positioning sensor encoders, and servo amplifiers for use in industrial robots, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, machine tools, flat panel display manufacturing equipment, and metal working machines
Arc and spot welding, handling/assembling, collaborative, biomedical, palletizing, press handling, sealing/cutting/laser machining, deburring, painting, glass substrates transfer, and semiconductor wafer transfer robots for use in semiconductor wafer conveyance, arc welding, spot welding, handling, assembly, and palletizing applications.
It also manufactures and sells various AC drives, including general purpose AC drives, specific purpose AC drives, AC Drive for systems, regenerative energy saving units, and PM motors for use in household appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators.
Its portfolio also includes social infrastructures comprising elevators, escalators, trains, cranes, fans, and pumps, and factories that manufacture printing machinery, textile machinery, rubber machinery, and materials
Industrial system electrical products, such as medium-voltage AC drives, system use AC drives, and system controllers for use in iron and steel systems, water and wastewater treatment, crane, and paper-making/film/port cargo handling/fiber/printing applications.
It also offers equipment for energy saving and creation comprising PV inverters, control equipment for small-scale power generation, and motor drive systems for use in photovoltaic power generation and electric vehicles. Founded in 1915, the company is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.