COMPANY
Company Information
| Business | Maintenance Service for Industrial Robots ・Maintenance service for domestic customers ・Service support for overseas offices |
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| Head Office Location | 〒673-8666 1-1, Kawasaki-cho, Akashi-shi, Hyogo, Japan (#86, Akashi Works, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.) |
| Establishment | April 1, 2012 |
| Capital Stock | 350 million yen |
| Number of Employees | 478 (as of April 2024) |
| Sales Volume | 13500 million yen (FY2023) |
| Shareholder Composition | 100% owned by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
| President | Shinya Terasawa |
| Office | 13 locations nationwide Click here for details of each service location. |
History
| 1968 | Kawasaki enters into a technical tie-up with Unimation, Inc. of the United States. Kawasaki begins operations as Japan’s pioneer robot manufacturer. |
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| 1969 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries begins manufacturing and selling Japan’s first industrial robots. |
| July 1986 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ robot-related maintenance and after-sales service division is spun off to form Kawasaki Robotics, Inc. |
| March 2001 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ robot sales division and Kawasaki Gas Turbine Service Technos, a gas turbine maintenance and after-sales service company, merge with Kawasaki Machine Systems, Ltd. |
| April 2012 | The maintenance and after-sales service division for robots is separated from Kawasaki Machine Systems, Inc. and established as Kawasaki Robot Service Co.At the same time, the robot sales division begins trading as Kawasaki Heavy Industries Robot Business Center. |
| Dec 2015 | Exhibited “K-COMMIT - Kawasaki Robot Safe Life Cycle Support -“ which aims for zero downtime of robot equipment using IoT as the service division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. at the 2015 International Robot Exhibition. |
| July 2016 | 30th anniversary of the establishment of the service company |
| June 2018 | 50th anniversary of the start of the robotics business |