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 | Invented "minertia motor" DC servo drive |
Minertia motor No.1
| 1961 | Kokura plant opened Technical tie-up with SEA (France) for print motors |
| 1964 | Tokyo plant opened |
| 1967 | YASKAWA Electric America, Inc. established |
| 1968 | Development of Hard-wired NCs |
| 1969 | Nakama plant opened Development of SF6 gas rotary-arc load breakers Application for "Mechatronics" trademark registration submitted (Trademark approved in 1972) |
Tokyo plant
| 1974 | Started domestic production of floppy disk drives Development of the "YASNAC" NC with built-in microcomputer YASKAWA ELETRICO DO BRASIL LTDA. established |
| 1977 | The MOTOMAN-L10 vertically jointed, articulated type robot introduced |
| 1978 | Commercialization of vector control AC drives |
| 1979 | Corporate charter established |
MOTOMAN-L10
| 1980 | YASKAWA Electric Europe GmbH established |
| 1983 | Participated in the development of Advanced Robot for Hazardous Environment, a large-scale project sponsored by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Commercialization of the AC servo drive series |
| 1984 | MOTOMAN ROBOTICS EUROPE AB established Deming Prize received |
| 1987 | Development of vacuum robots |
| 1988 | Cumulative shipments of MOTOMAN reached 10,000 |
| 1989 | Renovation of AC drive production facility completed Power distribution equipment plant opened MOTOMAN, INC. established |
Deming Prize
| 1990 | Motoman Center opened Development of live-line maintenance robot |
| 1991 | YASKAWA Electric UK Ltd. established YASKAWA ELECTRIC (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. established Corporate name changed to YASKAWA Electric Corporation Development of "Σ series" AC servo drives |
| 1992 | Participated in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's Micromachine Research and Development Project |
| 1993 | Cumulative shipments of AC Servo drives reached 1 million units |
| 1994 | Shanghai office and Beijing service center established YASKAWA ELECTRIC KOREA CORPORATION established |
| 1995 | Beijing office opened SHANGHAI YASKAWA DRIVE CO., Ltd. established Development of PIM parallel processing calculators Commercialization of "VS-616G5"vector control AC Drive |
| 1996 | Industrial robot joint venture company established in Beijing General-purpose AC drive manufacturing joint venture companies established in Shanghai and Malaysia YASKAWA ESHED TECHNOLOGY LTD. established （Israel） YASKAWA MOTOMAN CANADA LTD. established（Canada） YASKAWA MOTOMAN MÉXICO S.A.DE C.V. established （Mexico） |
| 1997 | Commercialization of super-energy-saving variable speed drive "VS-686SS5", which received the Minister of International Trade and Industry Award as an "Excellent Energy Product" Commercialization of "MOTOMAN CR series" robot for high clean class |
| 1998 | Received ISO14001 certification for Tokyo plant Cumulative shipments of MOTOMAN reached 50,000 Cumulative shipments of AC servo drives reached 2 million |
| 1999 | Received ISO14001 certification for Yukuhashi plant YASKAWA ELECTRIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. established Established joint venture for industrial drive systems with Siemens AG (Germany) |
AC servo drives
VS686SS5
Vacuum Transfer Robot
| 2001 | Received ISO14001 certification for 5 manufacturing plants in Japan YASKAWA ELECTRIC TAIWAN CORPORATION established |
| 2002 | Solution Center opened Cumulative shipments of AC servo drives reached 3 million |
| 2003 | Yahata-higashi Plant opened Cumulative shipments of MOTOMAN reached 100,000 |
| 2004 | Cumulative shipments of AC servo drives reached 4 million |
| 2005 | Commercialization of new generation robot (dual-arm and 7-axis) |
| 2006 | Motoman Station opened |
| 2007 | Drive Center opened Cumulative shipments of AC drives reached 10 million units |
| 2008 | Cumulative shipments of MOTOMAN reached 200,000 YASKAWA ELECTRIC (SHENYANG) CO., LTD. established |
| 2009 | Development of "QMET DRIVE" motor drive system for hybrid electric vehicles |
| 2010 | Released "Enewin" electrical products for large-scale wind power systems Commercialization of "PV 1000" photovoltaic power conditioners |
| 2011 | Development of "SiC*-QMET" high-efficiency motor drive system for electric vehicle using SiC*. *SiC: Silicon Carbide Kanto Robotics Center opened |
| 2012 | Adopted an executive officer system Cumulative shipments of AC servo drives reached 10 million Development of the world first power conditioner using GaN |
Dual-arm robot
QMET DRIVE
Enewin series
Photovoltaic power conditioners
