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Company Overview
Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division is a U.S. corporation, created to provide Automation Solutions and Support to our customers in North America, Central America, and South America. Yaskawa is the world's largest manufacturer of AC Inverter Drives, Servo and Motion Control, and Robotics Automation Systems. Products are marketed through direct sales, partners, representatives, dealers, and distributors. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division is a wholly-owned corporation of Yaskawa Electric Corporation of Japan. Since 1915, Yaskawa Electric has served the world needs for products to improve global productivity through Automation. This website is designed to support Yaskawa customers in the Americas.
Name Recognition
It is the policy of Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division, to place quality, continual improvement, and customer satisfaction at the forefront of everything we do. When it comes to quality, Yaskawa refuses to cut corners as we aim to be the best that we can be in everything we do. In fact, Yaskawa has been known to set the standards for quality, which competitors strive to live up to. At the core of Yaskawa's competitiveness is an all-encompassing commitment to ensured quality. Yaskawa has demonstrated this commitment by producing quality products in North America for the last 40+ years.
Yaskawa Quality Assurance
When it comes to quality, Yaskawa refuses to cut corners as we aim to be the best that we can be in everything we do. In fact, Yaskawa has been known to set the standards for quality, which competitors strive to live up to. At the core of Yaskawa's competitiveness is an all-encompassing commitment to ensured quality.
That’s why all phases of Yaskawa’s business including research and development, production and quality control, sales and marketing as well as technical service, are committed to delivering top quality products and service. One example of this commitment is Yaskawa’s acceptance into the ISO 9001:2008 family of certified organizations. This ensures customers that Yaskawa is a top-notch company with high ideals and sophisticated quality controls.
Yaskawa constantly tracks and measures product failures in time (FIT), which demonstrates a high quality and reliability rate that is the envy of the Industry. This field data confirms that Yaskawa exceeds their design targets for reliability. Yaskawa earned their quality numbers long ago, and have been diligent in maintaining their record of unparalleled reliability and value ever since.
By any measurement, the quality of Yaskawa products is second to none. Yaskawa can back that point up by being the only industrial drives and motion control manufacturer to have won the Deming prize – the most prestigious quality award in manufacturing. Yaskawa is also responsible for having received these awards: Ohm Technology Award, the Frost and Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award (2004), Control Engineering magazine’s Customer Satisfaction Award (2004 and 2006), the Frost and Sullivan Customer Value Leadership Award for MicroDrives (2008), and Quality Magazine's Quality Leadership 100 No. 5 ranking (2008).
Quality In Design
Yaskawa’s obsession with Quality and Reliability is what drives their design, as it’s planned and specified just as carefully as the rest of the product. That’s what they mean when they say that Quality and Reliability are “designed in.” High reliability design targets are set based on decades of experience, benchmarking, customer input, and industry research. Yaskawa thoroughly tests the reliability of new technologies, the consistency of new materials, and the failure rate of every component within their new products to be certain that the new design will achieve the reliability objectives we demand.
By consciously designing new products based on the learning curve of past designs, Yaskawa has diminished the failures at introduction of the latest 7-series drives to 1/15 that of the 3 series, while the newer 1000-series is even more stringent.
Quality In Production -
Defects are not an Option That’s because Yaskawa’s manufacturing processes are designed to prevent defects. Production operators have the advantage of having paperless on-line resources at their workstations, resulting in highly-detailed and up-to-date work instructions for every process step. Complex assemblies are made simple with the use of animations and video. Therefore, all components are verified and approved before they are installed, and frequent in-process quality checks prevent a unit from moving down the line until quality is assured
Testing Leads to Perfection
Name Recognition
- Although Yaskawa has been in business for almost a century with operations in North America since 1967, the Yaskawa name has not always been as recognizable as some of the others with respect to AC Drives. The reason lies in Yaskawa’s original (1967) approach to the North American market. Here Yaskawa chose to go into market with "Partners/Brand Labelers" who would market, sell and support Yaskawa's AC Drives under their individual brand labels.
- Yaskawa, in turn, would focus our attention on manufacturing, quality control and research and development of their Drive products, while working with and supplying products to "Partners/Brand Labelers". These "Partners/Brand Labelers" consisted of MagneTek, Saftronics, Omron IDM Controls and EMS.
- In July 1999, MagneTek acquired EMS of Cincinnati, OH making MagneTek an even stronger force in the market. That’s when not even two years later in January 2001, Yaskawa purchased the Drives Group of MagneTek and began promoting Yaskawa products under the Yaskawa name. Yaskawa’s acquisition of the MagneTek Drives Group was a complete acquisition, in that the employees and location of MagneTek in New Berlin, WI remained the same as only the name changed.
- Then later that same year in April of 2001, Yaskawa and Saftronics ended their very long branding arrangement. Finally during the fall of August 2004, Yaskawa brought the last branding partner, Omron IDM, into the fold as well. Yaskawa did so by purchasing the rights to Omron IDM Controls’ HVAC and Industrial channels.
- Since August of 2004, Yaskawa Drive products have been marketed solely under the Yaskawa name in the Americas. There are well over one million Yaskawa drives in operation today just in North America. Globally, that number rises into the 10’s of millions in operation today!
It is the policy of Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division, to place quality, continual improvement, and customer satisfaction at the forefront of everything we do. When it comes to quality, Yaskawa refuses to cut corners as we aim to be the best that we can be in everything we do. In fact, Yaskawa has been known to set the standards for quality, which competitors strive to live up to. At the core of Yaskawa's competitiveness is an all-encompassing commitment to ensured quality. Yaskawa has demonstrated this commitment by producing quality products in North America for the last 40+ years.
Yaskawa Quality Assurance
When it comes to quality, Yaskawa refuses to cut corners as we aim to be the best that we can be in everything we do. In fact, Yaskawa has been known to set the standards for quality, which competitors strive to live up to. At the core of Yaskawa's competitiveness is an all-encompassing commitment to ensured quality.
That’s why all phases of Yaskawa’s business including research and development, production and quality control, sales and marketing as well as technical service, are committed to delivering top quality products and service. One example of this commitment is Yaskawa’s acceptance into the ISO 9001:2008 family of certified organizations. This ensures customers that Yaskawa is a top-notch company with high ideals and sophisticated quality controls.
Yaskawa constantly tracks and measures product failures in time (FIT), which demonstrates a high quality and reliability rate that is the envy of the Industry. This field data confirms that Yaskawa exceeds their design targets for reliability. Yaskawa earned their quality numbers long ago, and have been diligent in maintaining their record of unparalleled reliability and value ever since.
By any measurement, the quality of Yaskawa products is second to none. Yaskawa can back that point up by being the only industrial drives and motion control manufacturer to have won the Deming prize – the most prestigious quality award in manufacturing. Yaskawa is also responsible for having received these awards: Ohm Technology Award, the Frost and Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award (2004), Control Engineering magazine’s Customer Satisfaction Award (2004 and 2006), the Frost and Sullivan Customer Value Leadership Award for MicroDrives (2008), and Quality Magazine's Quality Leadership 100 No. 5 ranking (2008).
Quality In Design
Yaskawa’s obsession with Quality and Reliability is what drives their design, as it’s planned and specified just as carefully as the rest of the product. That’s what they mean when they say that Quality and Reliability are “designed in.” High reliability design targets are set based on decades of experience, benchmarking, customer input, and industry research. Yaskawa thoroughly tests the reliability of new technologies, the consistency of new materials, and the failure rate of every component within their new products to be certain that the new design will achieve the reliability objectives we demand.
By consciously designing new products based on the learning curve of past designs, Yaskawa has diminished the failures at introduction of the latest 7-series drives to 1/15 that of the 3 series, while the newer 1000-series is even more stringent.
Quality In Production -
Defects are not an Option That’s because Yaskawa’s manufacturing processes are designed to prevent defects. Production operators have the advantage of having paperless on-line resources at their workstations, resulting in highly-detailed and up-to-date work instructions for every process step. Complex assemblies are made simple with the use of animations and video. Therefore, all components are verified and approved before they are installed, and frequent in-process quality checks prevent a unit from moving down the line until quality is assured
Testing Leads to Perfection
- No other manufacturer puts its products through as many tests or as arduous a testing process as Yaskawa. All printed circuit boards are functionally tested while under power, as every Yaskawa product is 100% tested under full current.
- Quality Practices
- Kaizen: Quality through continuous improvement
- TQM – Total Quality Management
- Certified Vendor Program
- Product Certification Process
- SAP Enhances the Total Experience
- Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division is a Member of the SAP North American Industrial Machinery and Components (IM&C) Executive Council. The council, sponsored by SAP, is composed of 15 companies with one main focus in mind. That of trying to raise and prioritize the concerns and needs of manufacturers in the industry to ensure that those needs and concerns are addressed in future releases of SAP.
- Supporting a Culture Focused on Quality with mySAP ERP.
Company Summary
Name
Yaskawa America Inc
Industry
Number of Employees
100-499