YASKAWA Electric founded in 1915 and has set “Electric motors and their application” as its business domain and supported the leading-edge industries of the age. Yaskawa’s core technologies are motion control, robotics and power conversion. The motion control business broadly consists of two product lineups: AC servo drives and AC drives. AC servo drives, which excel high-speed and high-precision position control, are applied to various automatic machines. The emergence of AC drives drastically upgraded the productivity of factories and contributed to advancements in industrial and energy savings. These technologies and products born and created out of their search for elaborate control of mechanical movement contributes on a daily basis to improvements in the quality and efficiency of manufacturing around the world.