Yaskawa Electric Corporation

Your First Choice for Automation

Yaskawa Electric is one of the world’s leading manufacturers in the fields of drive technology, industrial automation and robotics. Founded in 1915 and based in Kitakyushu, Japan, we see ourselves as a pioneer in these sectors, always striving to optimize the productivity and efficiency of machines and industrial systems with our innovations.

Facts & Figures

15,000

Employees worldwide

33 M

AC Drives installed

25 M

Servo Drives installed

590,000

Robots installed

60

Offices worldwide

2.0 M

AC Drives annually

3.4 M

Servo Drives annually

47,000

Robots annually

For over 100 years now, our products and solutions have been supporting automation in a wide variety of industrial processes including mining, mechanical engineering and toolmaking, as well as automotive, packaging, wood processing, lift, textile and semiconductor industries.

The activities of Yaskawa Electric are divided into 4 main areas:
Motion Control (AC drives, servo drives, servomotors, machine controllers), Robotics (industrial robots, service robots, robot systems), System Engineering (generators and converters) and Information Technology (software, information processing).

You can find out more about Yaskawa Electric on our global Yaskawa site.