Keyence

Keyence Corporation
Native name
 キーエンス
Public
Traded as TYO: 6861
Industry Electronics
Founded May 27, 1974
Headquarters Osaka, Japan
Key people
 Takemitsu Takizaki
(Chairman)
Akinori Yamamoto
(President)
Products FA sensors, measurement systems, machine vision, barcode readers, laser markers, and digital microscopes
Revenue $2.60 billion USD.  (2013)[1]
Number of employees
 4,000 (2014) [2]
Website www.keyence.com

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]

Operations

Keyence Corporation is a global company with a network of 16 international organizations that specializes in factory automation. Keyence Corporation earns over 2.5 billion dollars in yearly sales and employs 4,000 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

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), the UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea, or from 148 agents in 31 countries.

Automation sensors

Industrial safety

Machine vision systems and vision sensors

Industrial part markers

Measurement systems and sensors

Advanced microscopes

Static eliminators

Company culture and reputation

Keyence Japan is consistently listed in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun's yearly ranking of the "Top Ten Most Excellent Companies in Japan". 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]

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