Yaskawa Electric acquires Siemens joint venture to promote the new revolution of Industry 4.0
According to foreign media reports, Yaskawa Motor Co., Ltd. is acquiring its shareholding with Siemens AG in the industrial drive system field, enabling it to fully control all its operations, and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yaskawa on November 1. . The joint venture, called YaskawaSiemens Automation & Drives (YSAD), will be renamed Yaskawa Automation Drives (YAD) after the acquisition.
The YSAD joint venture was established in October 1999 between Yaskawa and Siemens' automation and drive divisions to enhance the market share of the two companies by complementing industrially driven products and technologies. In particular, Siemens hopes to increase its presence in the Japanese market. Permeability. At that time, Siemens Automation and Drives Group said that the cooperation with Yaskawa Electric means that Siemens has achieved a decisive market breakthrough in Japan.
At the beginning, the joint venture achieved very good progress and, within less than a year, it expanded its cooperative products to low-voltage controlled distribution. However, the environment of the industrial drive system market has changed in recent years, and the automation industry is experiencing a revolution in Industry 4.0, which has enabled Yaskawa to have new ideas.
Yaskawa Electric takes the four major businesses of drive control, motion control, robotics and system engineering as its axis, and makes "energy saving, environmental protection, and debugging industrial equipment mechanization" as an important development direction, providing the industry with a total solution. In October 2017, Yaskawa introduced the i3-Mechatronics concept, a new revolution in automation, which is part of its long-term business plan.
The i3 in i3-Mechatronics refers to integrated, intelligent, innovaTIve, namely integration, intelligence and innovation. Yaskawa Electric seeks to achieve smarter manufacturing solutions through the combination and integrated control of automated parts such as its own robots and motors. The i3-Mechatronics concept is suitable for mechatronic products such as servo drives, AC drives and industrial robots.
Yaskawa Electric is highly competitive globally, and YSAD is suitable for industrial drive systems. Therefore, Yaskawa Electric decided to change the original joint venture company YSAD into their subsidiary and hope to further promote the concept of i3-Mechatronics.
After the acquisition, YAD will maintain a strategic partnership with Siemens to provide the corresponding systems and solutions, while YAD will continue to provide system application solutions and combinations with Yaskawa Electric products.
Industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing represent a new process in the automation industry. The new model will integrate advanced technologies such as IoT, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and robotics, enabling factory users to achieve higher productivity and quickly respond. The demand for the market, the same production line to achieve a variety of product manufacturing capabilities, and to provide customized services.
Automation companies optimize and upgrade their product portfolios to meet the needs of the industry 4.0 era, and more powerful controllers and automation components that may make automation companies more competitive.
