Yaskawa

Yaskawa Electric Corporation

Type	Public KK
Traded as	: : 6506 Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Electrical equipment Robotics
Founded	July 16, 1915 (1915-07-16)
Founder	Keiichiro Yasukawa
Headquarters	2-1 Kurosakishiroishi, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 806-0004 Japan
Key people	Junji Tsuda, (CEO, President and Chairman of the Board)
Products	Motion control systems Industrial robots Systems engineering services IT solutions
Revenue	JPY 363.57 billion (FY 2013) (US$ 3.52 billion) (FY 2013)
Net income	JPY 16.96 billion (FY 2013) (US$ 161.1 million) (FY 2013)
Number of employees	10,383 (consolidated) 3,284 (temporary) (as of March 20, 2013)
Website	Official website
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JPY 363.57 billion (FY 2013)

JPY 16.96 billion (FY 2013)

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.

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. The head-office, in Kitakyushu, was designed by the American architect Antonin Raymond in 1954.

The company is listed on the and and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 .