History
| 1915 | YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. established as a limited partnership |
| 1919 | YASKAWA Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. established |
| 1949 | Shares listed on the Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka stock exchanges |
YASKAWA Electric
Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
| 1954 | Technical tie-up with Brown, Boveri & Co, Ltd. (Switzerland) for DC motors |
| 1957 | Yukuhashi plant opened |
| 1958 | DC servomotors "Minertia motor" developed |
Minertia motor No.1
| 1961 | Technical tie-up with SEA (France) for print motors Kokura plant opened |
| 1964 | Tokyo plant opened |
| 1968 | Hard-wired NCs developed |
| 1969 | SF6 gas rotary-arc load breakers developed Application for Mechatronics trademark registration submitted (Trademarks approved in 1972) Nakama plant opened |
Tokyo plant
| 1974 | Domestic production of floppy disk drives started NC "YASNAC", incorporating a microcomputer, developed |
| 1977 | The MOTOMAN-L10 vertically jointed, articulated type robot introduced |
| 1978 | Development for commercializing vector-control AC Drives |
| 1979 | Corporate charter established |
MOTOMAN-L10
| 1983 | Participated in Advanced Robot Technology, a large-scale project sponsored by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Development for commercializing AC servo drive |
| 1984 | Deming Prize received |
| 1987 | Development of vacuum robots |
| 1988 | Tokyo Mechatronics Center opened |
| 1989 | Renovation of AC Drive production facility completed Power Distribution Equipment plant opened |
Deming Prize
| 1990 | Live-line maintenance robot developed MOTOMAN Center opened |
| 1991 | Corporate name changed to YASKAWA Electric Corporation AC servo S(Sigma) series developed |
| 1992 | Participated in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's Micromachine Research and Development Project |
| 1993 | YASKAWA Electric UK Ltd. established in the United Kingdom and local production of AC Drives commenced Abolished special Freon/trichloroethylene AC Servomotor Shipments Reach 1 million units |
| 1994 | Shanghai Office and Beijing service centers established |
| 1995 | Beijing Office opened Local production of MOTOMAN robots in the United States and Sweden began Sales of PIM parallel processing calculators commenced Development for commercializing vector-control generalpurpose AC Drive "VS-616G5" |
| 1996 | Industrial robot joint venture company established in Beijing General-purpose AC Drive manufacturing joint venture companies established in Shanghai and Malaysia Educational robot joint venture company established in Israel |
| 1997 | Development for commercializing super-energy-saving variable speed drive "VS-686SS5" "VS-686SS5" received the Minister of International Trade and Industry Award as an "Excellent Energy Product" Development for commercializing robot for high-clean class "MOTOMAN CR series" Established Environmental Mid-Range Plan |
| 1998 | MOTOMAN production reached 50,000 mark Received ISO14001 certification for Tokyo plant AC Servo production reached 2 million mark |
| 1999 | Received ISO14001 certification for Yukuhashi plant Acquisition of Tokico Ltd.'s painting robot sales operations Established joint venture for industrial drive systems with Siemens AG (Germany) |
AC servo
VS686SS5
Vacuum Transfer Robot
| 2000 | Business tie-up with NIDEC for medium and small size general purpose motors |
| 2001 | Acquisition of drive products business unit in MagneTek Inc. (America) Taking over YASKAWA Plant Engineering Co., Ltd. |
| 2002 | The solution center established AC Servo production reached 3 million mark |
| 2003 | MOTOMAN production reached 100,000 mark Yahata-higashi Plant Opened |
| 2004 | AC Servo production reached 4 million mark |
| 2005 | Commercialized the new-generation industrial robots (dual-arm robot & arm robot) |
| 2006 |
MOTOMAN STATION opened |
| 2007 | AC servo drives Σ-V series launched Cumulative shipments of AC Drives reached 10 million units Drive Center opened |
Dual-arm robot
Σ-ⅤSeries
