Keyence
| Keyence Corporation キ ー エ ン ス
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | JP3236200006 |
| founding | May 27, 1974 |
| Seat |
Osaka , Japan
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| Number of employees | 7,941 |
| sales | 4.62 billion euros (2018) |
| Branch | Automation technology |
| Website | www.keyence.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Keyence Corporation ( Japaneseキ ー エ ン スKīensu ) is a global supplier of components for automation technology .
history
Keyence was founded in 1974 by Takemitsu Takizaki in Osaka. The company name Keyence is a made-up word ( trunk word ), formed from the slogan Key Of Science . Within 30 years, Keyence, based in Japan, has developed into one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial sensors and automation technology.
The building of the Keyence head office with laboratory received the " Outstanding Structure Award " of the IABSE in 2000 .
Business model
Characteristic of the business model of Keyence is the exclusive direct sales of products to OEMs and end users. The focus of business activity is on the development and sale of products. The production is mostly contracted outsourced . Around 30% of sales are achieved with new developments.
Keyence currently has more than 7,900 employees worldwide. These are distributed between the parent company in Japan and eighteen subsidiaries worldwide in all major industrial nations .
After a steady growth in sales since it was founded, sales exceeded 200 billion yen for the first time in 2007 (then around 1.8 billion US dollars). The operating profit was over 50% in each of the years 2003–2007, and in 2007 it was 102 billion yen (about 910 million US $).
Products
In Germany, the product range is divided into five product areas:
- Sensor technology product area
- optical sensors (fiber optic, photoelectric, and laser sensors)
- Color sensors
- Pressure sensors
- Safety light curtains
- tactile displacement sensors
- inductive sensors
- Barcode scanners
- Measurement technology product area
- Displacement sensors (1D and 2D laser triangulation , confocal, inductive)
- 3D profile sensors ( light section method )
- CCD micrometers, 1D and 2D
- Multi-wavelength interferometer
- Profile projectors and measuring microscopes
- Image processing product area
- Image processing systems including lens, lighting, integration
- Line scan cameras
- Matrix cameras
- High speed BV
- Mini cameras
- Laser marking
- 3D printing product area
- 3D printer with heat-resistant printing material (see also generative manufacturing process and rapid prototyping )
- Application sensors
- Laser triangulation in the low-cost area
- Ribbon micrometer
- Probe
- electrostatic discharge
- Inductive sensors
- Camera sensors
- Microscopy product area
- Digital microscopes
- Laser scanning microscopes ( confocal microscope )
- Fluorescence microscopes
- High-speed digital microscopes
- Macroscopes ( strip light scanning )
- Marking technologies
- Inkjet printer
The following are sold exclusively in Japan:
- Programmable logic controllers
- Servo drives
- RFID technologies
- Scanning electron and atomic force microscopes
- High-tech products for the hobby sector
Branch offices in Germany
- Neu-Isenburg (headquarters)
- eat
- Hanover
- Mannheim
- Leipzig
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Stuttgart
- Cologne
- Frankfurt am Main
- Erfurt
- Montabaur
- Hamburg
- Berlin
- Karlsruhe
- Dusseldorf
- New Ulm
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- ↑ a b c company website. In: career.keyence.de. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
- ↑ USD / JPY (US dollar / Japanese yen) year-end closing prices . boerse.de. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
Web links
- keyence.co.jp - Keyence Corporation website (Japanese)
- keyence.de - Website of Keyence Deutschland GmbH
- digitalmikoskop.de - information portal microscopy
- bv-loesungen.de - Information portal image processing
- optisch-messen.de - Information portal measurement technology
- profilprojektor.de - Information portal profile projectors
- Profile on IndustryArena - Keyence on IndustryArena