The company’s first order product “three-phase induction motor 20HP” was delivered in 1917. It has received orders of induction motors for skewer hoisting machines from coal mining companies.

Synchronous motor 4,000HP 250rpm for rolling machines was delivered to a Japanese iron manufacture Yahata steel plants in 1935.

In 1950, a revolutionary and user-friendly component VS motor which has variable speed and remote control was developed. The first product was embedded on a double-turn printing press.

Yaskawa’s motion control technology advanced significantly in the 1960’s, and developed many products as applied model of small motors. The coined word “MECHATRONICS” was registered a trademark in 1972.

In the 1960’s, it commercialized automatic equipment series that challenged electrically, such as MOTO fingers and MOTO arms, and became the basis for our robotics business.

The unmanned factory concept was proposed that automation of the trinity with a detector, controller and actuator were combined in the 1960’s.

The technical research for AC drives has started, and the world first vector control drives VS-626TV was launched in 1979. They have significantly changed the driving operation with a conventional direct motors.

The motor drive system QMET (Qualified Magnetic Electronic Transmission) for HEV which consists of motor and power control unit was developed in 2009 by utilizing the motor drive technology.

It has commemorated the 100th anniversary in 2015, with the new head office building a robot village, together with a new corporate logo for the next century.

Yaskawa solution factory which becomes a servo’s mother factory as a place to demonstrate i3-Mechatronics solution has been fully operational.