Yaskawa Electric Corporation
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| Traded as | : : 6506 Nikkei 225 Component |
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| Founded | July 16, 1915 |
| Founder | Keiichiro Yasukawa |
| Headquarters | 2-1 Kurosakishiroishi, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 806-0004 Japan |
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Key people
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Junji Tsuda, (CEO, President and Chairman of the Board) |
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| Revenue | (US$ 3.52 billion) (FY 2013) |
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Number of employees
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 10,383 (consolidated)3,284 (temporary) (as of March 20, 2013) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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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 .
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