Keyence
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Keyence Headquarters and Lab in Osaka, Japan
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Native name
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キーエンス |
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| Traded as | TYO: 6861 |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | May 27, 1974 |
| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
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Key people
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Takemitsu Takizaki (Chairman) Akinori Yamamoto (President) |
| Products | FA sensors, measurement systems, machine vision, barcode readers, laser markers, and digital microscopes |
| Revenue | $3.06 billion USD. (2014)[1] |
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Number of employees
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5,000 (2016) [2] |
| Website | www |
Keyence Corporation (キーエンス Kīensu?) is a direct sales organization that develops and manufactures automation sensors, vision systems, barcode readers, laser markers, measuring instruments, and digital microscopes.
Keyence is fabless (fabrication-less) - although it is a manufacturer; it specializes solely in product planning and development and does not manufacture the final products. Keyence products are manufactured at qualified contract manufacturing companies.[3]
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Operations[edit]
Keyence Corporation is a global company with a network of 16 international organizations that specializes in factory automation. Keyence Corporation earns over 2.76 billion dollars in yearly sales and employs 4,450 employees worldwide.[2][1] As a direct sales company, Keyence salespeople visit customers on site with demonstration cases to show products live.[4]
Keyence's range of products are part of the manufacturing and research processes in a variety of industries, including the electronics, semiconductor, automotive, food and packaging, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.[5]
Products[edit]
Keyence manufactures a broad range of products, from the photoelectric sensor and proximity sensors to measuring instruments for inspection lines to high precision microscopes used in research institutes. These products are used by more than 200,000 customers globally.[6] Products are shipped from Keyence's warehouses in Japan, U.S. (Chicago), UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, or from 148 agents in 31 countries.
Automation sensors[edit]
- Fiber optic sensors (FS Series)
- Photoelectric laser sensors (LR/PR/PZ/PX Series)
Industrial safety[edit]
- Safety light curtains (GL Series)
- Safety laser scanners (SZ Series)
Machine vision systems and vision sensors[edit]
- Flexible machine vision systems (XG Series)
- Smart machine vision systems (CV Series)
- Vision sensors (IV Series)
- Barcode readers (SR Series)
Industrial part laser markers[edit]
- Fiber/YVO4 laser markers (MD Series)
- CO2 laser markers (ML Series)
- Green/SHG laser markers (MD Series)
Industrial Inkjet Printer[edit]
- Standard black inkjet
- Small character inkjet
- Yellow inkjet
- MEK-free inkjet
Measurement systems and sensors[edit]
- Image measurement systems (IM Series)-Optical comparator
- 1D laser displacement sensors (LK Series)
- 2D laser displacement sensors (LJ Series)
- Optical laser scan micrometers (LS Series)
- 2D Optical Micrometers (TM Series)
- Contact distance LVDT sensors (GT Series)
- Scanning laser confocal sensors (LT Series)
- Spectral-interference displacement meters (SI Series)
Advanced microscopes[edit]
- Digital microscope (VHX Series)
- Laser scanning microscope (VK Series)
- High-speed microscope (VW Series)
- Fluorescence microscope (BZ Series)
Static eliminators[edit]
- Bar-type static eliminators (SJ-H Series)
- Blower-type static eliminators (SJ-F Series)
- Spot-type static eliminators (SJ-M Series)
Company culture and reputation[edit]
Keyence Japan is consistently listed in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun's yearly ranking of the "Top Ten Most Excellent Companies in Japan." The company maintains a strong ROE (12.32%) and a conservative equity ratio (95.54%), and it is also known as one of the top companies in Japan in terms of salaries, the average annual salary for full-time employees (average age: 35.3 years old) in FY2015 being JPY17,560,000 (US$171,000 as of September 2016).[7] A 350-million-year-old ammonite fossil is displayed at the entrance of the Japanese headquarters; other fossils of long-dead creatures align the corridors and meeting rooms. Relics are supposed to convey a tacit message to employees: keep aiming high or you'll become a fossil.[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b 経営情報 ： 株式会社キーエンス
- ^ a b プロフィール ： 株式会社キーエンス
- ^ a b Keeping The Seats Warm - Forbes.com
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=zlXzL0L1cY4C&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=TAKIZAKI+Keyence&source=web&ots=gYEXr8XqYa&sig=RkmTlZ6chhkuwwKDUp-ev6kdRH0&hl=en#PPA190,M1
- ^ Keyence Corp. of America Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
- ^ "Global Network & Local Offices | KEYENCE America".
- ^ (株)キーエンス 企業情報 Yahoo!ファイナンス
External links[edit]
- Keyence Global Home (English)
- Keyence Corporation (Japanese)
- Keyence UK
