Fanuc
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha |
| ISIN | JP3802400006 |
| founding | 1972 |
| Seat | Oshino , Japan |
| management | Yoshiharu Inaba |
| Number of employees | 5469 (2016) |
| sales | 730 billion yen (2014/2015) 5.66 billion euros |
| Branch | Electronics manufacturer , mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.fanuc.co.jp |
Fanuc KK ( Jap. ファナック株式会社 , Fanakku Kabushiki Kaisha , Engl. Fanuc, Ltd . ) Is a Japanese electronics - and engineering company . The company's headquarters is located in Oshino in the Yamanashi Prefecture on a plateau at the foot of Mount Fuji . The name is an abbreviation of F uji A utomatic NU merical C ontrol.
The company manufactures industrial robots , injection molding machines , wire EDM machines , milling machines , machine tools for nano machining, carbon dioxide lasers and fiber lasers . It is mainly active in the field of robotics , CNC controls as well as servomotors and associated frequency converters .
history
The company started in 1956 under the leadership of Seiuemon Inaba as a subdivision of Fujitsu with the development of NC controls . In 1972 the company was founded under the name Fujitsu Fanuc Ltd. spun off from the Fujitsu group and in 1982 in Fanuc Ltd. renamed.
In 1974 Fanuc developed and installed the first industrial robot in Japan. Fanuc USA Corporation was founded in 1977 and renamed Fanuc America Corporation in 2013. In 1978 Fanuc Europe SA was founded and in 2012 it was renamed Fanuc Europe Corporation.
In 1984 Fanuc developed and produced the first fully electric plastic injection molding machine in Japan under the name Fanuc Roboshot. In 1986 a machine of this type was commissioned in Europe. Between 2003 and 2007 the company founded ten further subsidiaries worldwide, for example in Vietnam and Russia .
In 2010 the company produced the ten millionth servo motor. Fanuc, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Nikkei 225 , ISIN JP3802400006, is currently (as of February 2014) managed by Yoshiharu Inaba.
The company employs 4,560 people in the parent company and 1,900 in subsidiaries and affiliated companies. The English-language Forbes Magazine named the company in its 2011 list of the world's 100 most innovative companies; Currently (as of July 2017) Fanuc is ranked 76th.
Affiliates
Subsidiaries in North America are Fanuc America Corporation, based in Rochester Hills , Michigan, and Fanuc Europe Corporation, based in Echternach , Luxembourg, in Europe . Other Fanuc companies in East and South Asia are partly operated as joint ventures with local companies. There are 210 branches in 41 countries worldwide. Fanuc's German headquarters are in Neuhausen auf den Fildern , south of Stuttgart.
engagement
In 1989 the company established the Foundation Fanuc FA & Robot Foundation , which focuses on the development of automation technologies for machine tools, machine tools and robots is. Financed by a fund and annual donations from Fanuc, the foundation awards grants and supports research projects that drive progress in automation technology.
See also
Web links
- Company website (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/companies/fanuc/ , accessed March 12, 2016
- ↑ Fanuc 2015 Annual Report , accessed April 9, 2016
- ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, March 31, 2015
- ↑ FANUC News 2015 (English) . Retrieved June 24, 2016.
- ^ The World's Most Innovative Companies , Forbes Magazine
- ^ Robot manufacturer Fanuc comes to Regensburg. In: MM MaschinenMarkt Online from August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .